| Good afternoon! It's the "best of" book list you've been waiting for. MPR News host Kerri Miller - joined by the executive director of the National Book Foundation and the manager at Subtext Books in St. Paul - shared their picks for favorite books of the year. What are the books that stuck with you this year? | The Thread | Forecast |
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| The year has left the generation born between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s wallowing in memories and contemplating its own mortality. | Carrie Fisher was in on the joke |
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| Secretary of State John Kerry questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's true commitment to Palestinian statehood, which has formed the basis for all serious peace talks for years. |
| Police documents allege a Minnesota elementary school teacher and his husband had sexual contact with eight underage boys over several years. |
| The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has faced a tumultuous year. Archbishop Bernard Hebda shared what his thoughts are moving forward. | Betrayed by Silence |
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| The phone lines filled with listeners who wanted to share their hopes and goals for 2017. |
| Religious institutions still receive more donations than any other charity organizations in the U.S. But religious giving is down 50 percent since 1990 according to Giving USA. |
| Trump's largely respectful tone about Obama since the election evaporated in his latest tweets. | Trump decries his foundation's closure, overstating its giving |
| According to Chisago County Sheriff Rick Duncan, the man tried to turn around in a snowy driveway, but got stuck in a ditch. When he got out to push his car he told police he heard shouting, and then shotgun blasts. Dylann Roof, who is acting as his own attorney in the penalty phase to prevent what he thinks would be further embarrassment to himself or his family, again was warned that being his own lawyer was a bad idea. |
