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Bilingual voting ballots ordered in 25 states

The federal government is ordering that 248 counties and other political jurisdictions provide bilingual ballots to Hispanics and other minorities who speak little or no English.

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Mpls. event highlights growing efforts by teens to stop bullying

Mpls. event highlights growing efforts by teens to stop bullying

Students have organized a bullying awareness event at the Blake School today. Efforts led by students to change the culture within their own school have become more common in recent years.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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OccupyMN protesters planning for coming work week

OccupyMN protesters planning for coming work week

Many members of the OccupyMN movement are preparing to blend their life of activism with the normal work week as they return to their jobs Monday.
by Rupa Shenoy

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Feds vow crackdown on Calif. pot operations

Feds vow crackdown on Calif. pot operations

Federal authorities in California vowed to shut down dozens of pot growing and sales operations in a major crackdown.

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Remembering civil rights hero Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

A giant in the civil rights movement that many people did not know, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth died Wednesday in Birmingham at the age of 89. He was beaten, bombed and jailed dozens of times during an adult lifetime fighting for, and preaching for, civil rights for black Americans. Listen to a 1998 conversation with Gary Eichten in the MPR studios.

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Exhibit on tribal treaties opens in St. Paul

Exhibit on tribal treaties opens in St. Paul

The treaty exhibit was the result of a two-year collaboration between tribal elders, the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, the Minnesota Humanities Center, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
by Madeleine Baran

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Prominent Republicans join effort against marriage amendment

Several prominent state Republicans and GOP organizations are joining the effort against a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage in Minnesota.
by Tim Pugmire

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