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Why phone fraud starts with a silent call

Why phone fraud starts with a silent call

When you answer your phone and there's no one one the other end, it could in fact be a computer that's gathering information about you and your bank account.
by Aarti Shahani

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Aspen Ideas Festival: The four sources of happiness

Aspen Ideas Festival: The four sources of happiness

What's included in the Declaration of Independence? Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Americans aren't promised happiness, just the pursuit of it. At the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival, several psychologists suggest that our old notions of happiness aren't true today.

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Target Corp. to pay $2.8M discrimination settlement

Target Corp. to pay $2.8M discrimination settlement

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says thousands of people were adversely affected, and the settlement money will be divided among them.
by The Associated Press

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In new memoir, Maria tells us how she got, how she got to Sesame Street

In new memoir, Maria tells us how she got, how she got to Sesame Street

Sonia Manzano has spent 44 years as one of the lucky residents of Sesame Street. In her memoir she describes how, during her own difficult childhood in the South Bronx, she sought comfort in TV.

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'We Believe the Children': Child abuse hysteria in the 1980s

'We Believe the Children': Child abuse hysteria in the 1980s

In the 1980s, horrific allegations of child sexual abuse sprang up around the nation, including in Minnesota. As Richard Beck's new book explains, it was part of a mass hysteria on par with the Salem with trials.
by MPR News Staff

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Black Lives Matter to protest at Minnesota State Fair

Black Lives Matter to protest at Minnesota State Fair

Black Lives Matter St. Paul plans to interrupt State Fair business because, organizers claim, the Fair denies minorities vendor opportunities.
by Riham Feshir

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Police step up DWI enforcement through Labor Day

Hundreds of law enforcement agencies will be cracking down on drunk driving on Minnesota roads through the next three weeks.
by Tim Nelson

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Can health care be cured of racial bias?

Can health care be cured of racial bias?

Even as the health of Americans has improved, the disparities in treatment and outcomes between white patients and black and Latino patients are almost as big as they were 50 years ago.
by April Dembosky

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Monastery prior steps aside pending investigation

Monastery prior steps aside pending investigation

A former student has alleged sexual misconduct by the Rev. Tom Andert, prior of the monastery at Saint John's Abbey.
by Madeleine Baran

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Proposal to move crisis center into neighborhood prompts rezoning talks

A number of the St. Paul residents say moving the group home to their neighborhood would violate spot zoning laws, because they live in a neighborhood of single family homes. Mental health advocates say they're using zoning as an excuse to keep patients away from the neighborhood.
by Riham Feshir

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