MPR News Update PM Edition: Schoen lawyer suggests mistakes, politics drove misconduct claims; Liberians, other immigrants fret that legal status may end soon
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The attorney for state Sen. Dan Schoen said Wednesday that Schoen never meant to sexually harass anyone and the allegations against him have either been taken out of context or were mistakes.
Following minor surgery, a Kaiser Health News columnist sees up close how easily doctors can prescribe opioid pain pills, and how such prescribing helps fuel the epidemic of opioid addiction.
Three Army non-commissioned officers have been removed from their posts on the White House Communications Agency. They allegedly had inappropriate contact with foreign women when in Vietnam.
The FCC chairman says repealing net neutrality is a needed return to a "free market-based" Internet. One opponent says Ajit Pai's plan "would end the Internet as we know it."
An MPR News/APM Research survey pegged Franken's approval rating at 59 percent in late summer. But a recent KSTP survey finds only 22 percent of Minnesota adults believe Franken should remain in office in the wake of misconduct allegations.
From real-life, seaweed-carrying dolphins to fictional singing seahorses, animals in these new books can excite the mind, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.
