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December 25, 2017 12:00 AM

Aspen Ideas Festival: David Brooks on life's joys and challenges

Highlights from the 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival: David Brooks on life's joy's and challenges.

by MPR News Staff

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December 22, 2017 4:11 PM

New regulations threaten minority-owned eyelash extension services

Critics say new state regulations punish start-up businesses offering eyelash extensions to protect incumbent salon operators.

by Emma Sapong

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December 22, 2017 4:00 AM

Lack of affordable housing has tenants fighting to stay in problem landlord's properties

The city of Minneapolis revoked all 42 of Mahmood Khan's rental licenses for not maintaining his properties. Many of Khan's tenants say they want to move, but they can't find anywhere else to go.

by Max Nesterak

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December 21, 2017 7:19 PM

U.N. investigator on extreme poverty issues a grim report -- on the U.S.

He undertook his fact-finding mission with a series of questions: Are those in poverty able to live with dignity? And what does a government do to protect those who are most vulnerable?

by Sasha Ingber

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December 21, 2017 4:18 PM

Papa John's founder out as CEO weeks after NFL comments

Papa John's founder John Schnatter who appears in the chain's commercials and on its pizza boxes, and is the company's biggest shareholder, remains chairman of the board.

by The Associated Press

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December 21, 2017 3:57 PM

Finding a legal loophole, Memphis takes down its Confederate statues

To skirt a state law prohibiting the monuments' removal, the city sold two of its parks to a new nonprofit. "In all of my life in Memphis, I've never seen such solidarity," said Mayor Jim Strickland.

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December 21, 2017 10:41 AM

Rewriting the masculine script

In a moment when women are being empowered to speak out against powerful male abusers, we wonder: what would it take to rewrite the rules about masculinity?

by Suzanne Pekow and Jana Shortal

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December 20, 2017 5:50 PM

Dozens of companies are using Facebook to exclude older workers from job ads

Among the companies ProPublica found doing it: Amazon, Verizon, UPS, Target and Facebook itself. "It's blatantly unlawful," said one employment law expert.

by ProPublica Staff

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December 20, 2017 9:48 AM

How racism may cause black mothers to suffer the death of their infants

African-American women are more likely to lose a baby in the first year of life than women of any other race. Scientists think that stress from racism makes their bodies and babies more vulnerable.

by Rhitu Chatterjee and Rebecca Davis

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December 19, 2017 3:03 PM

Somalis facing imminent deportation granted temporary reprieve

A flight headed for Somalia with deportees, including at least 10 from Minnesota, was forced to return to the U.S. Lawyers hoping to keep them in the U.S. say federal agents abused some detainees.

by Mukhtar M. Ibrahim

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