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Host Stephen Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature-from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt.

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Lights shine inside the U.S. Capitol as night falls in Washington.
NewsWorks Tonight
National

Gallup poll: Most see Congress as corrupt, beholden to special interests

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

7 years ago

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Contract signing by ACEA Executive Director Lauren H. Moore Jr. with USDA loan specialist Joseph Henry (seated to left) and (standing, from left) Max Slusher, ACEA business development director; Michael Zumpino, Triad Associates chairman and CEO; Noel McGuire, ACEA business aviation representative; and Steve Kehs, Triad Associates vice president. (Provided)
Business
New Jersey

Atlantic County looking to expand aviation industry

Officials want to build up the area as a place for good jobs that are not in the tourism business

7 years ago

An artist's rendering of plans to convert 1.8 million square feet of an unused portion of a Wilmington AstraZeneca site into a mixed-use community. (Della Donne & Associates)
Architecture & Design
Delaware

Developer proposes multi-use community for AstraZeneca site in Wilmington

Della Donne & Associates plans to convert 1.8 million square feet into a community of office spaces, luxury apartments, a hotel, restaurants, and shops.

7 years ago

Tony Guido explains features of a composting vessel he helped build for a Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council design competition. (Meir Rinde/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Environment
Food & Drink
PlanPhilly

To vanquish food waste, a competition aims to design and compost

A competition to invent a new, better bin was launched last year by the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council, which is overseen by the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability

7 years ago

A public domain image of a Robinson R22 Beta II helicopter.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

2 injured after helicopter crashes at Shore

A helicopter with a student pilot and an instructor aboard crashed near a small airport at the Jersey Shore, leaving two people injured.

7 years ago

Peter Reijmers, 29, of Charlottesville, lays flowers at a memorial on 4th Street SE where Heather Heyer was killed last August. (Justin T. Gellerson/NPR)
NPR
Changing Communities
Social Justice

‘Unite The Right’ rally forced Charlottesville to rethink town’s racial history

After a deadly clash between white nationalists and counterprotesters on Aug. 12 last year, Charlottesville has become shorthand for racial strife.

7 years ago

This April 28, 2018 photo shows visitors looking at markers bearing the names of lynching victims at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. The memorial includes some 800 markers, one for each county in the U.S. where lynchings took place, documenting the killings of more than 4,400 individuals between 1877 and 1950. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)

Cold monuments versus living testimonies: A civil rights tour

Is it still history when it moves a person to tears? When it stirs anger or resentment? Inspires remorse or rededication? Replaces fear w ...

7 years ago

Cyclist and pedestrians take part in Philly Free Streets, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Community Events
Philadelphia

The possibilities along 8 miles of Philly Free Streets

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn walks with PlanPhilly community engagement editor Diana Lu along the route of this year's Philly Free Streets.

7 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight
Criminal Justice
Law
Sports

NewsWorks Tonight, August 9, 2018

A federal appeals court rules in favor of former Pennsylvania Congressman Chaka Fattah. As health insurance premiums rise, area lawmakers ...

Air Date: August 9, 2018

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Jane Lyons, with both her Young Hero Award around her neck, and holding her Spark Award, acknowledging her work helping incarcerated youth. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Criminal Justice
Delaware
Kids

Delaware teen honored for assisting juvenile offenders

The National Liberty Museum 'Young Hero' award was given to 14 youths for their service projects, including a Delaware anti-recidivism fund.

7 years ago

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during a news conference Friday, June 29, 2018, in Trenton, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
New Jersey
Transportation

N.J. Gov: Rail commuters entitled to anger over cancellations

Note to New Jersey's beleaguered rail commuters: Gov. Phil Murphy feels your pain.

7 years ago

The single dog tag in the 55 boxes of human remains turned over to the U.S. by North Korea last week was still readable. It was presented to Master Sgt. Charles Hobert McDaniel's two sons at a ceremony on Wednesday.
(Jay Price /Member station WUNC)
NPR
Home & Family
Military

Sons get ‘certitude’ after receiving their missing father’s Korean War dog tag

Charles McDaniel, Jr., and his younger brother Larry were presented with their father's ID tag by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency at a ceremony in Arlington, Va.

7 years ago

Susan Bro stands on 4th Street SE in Charlottesville, Va., where where her daughter Heather Heyer was killed. Heyer died in August 2017 during a violent white nationalist rally.
(Justin T. Gellerson for NPR)
NPR
National

Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer’s mother picks up her baton

One year ago, a car rammed into counter-protesters during a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Paralegal and activist Heather Heyer was killed.

7 years ago

Construction is under way at the 76ers Fieldhouse in Wilmington, which the developer says will also serve as a training center for elite youth athletes and offer athletic, educational and leadership programs for poor city children. (Cris Barrish/WHYY. Inset courtesy of Buccini/Pollin Group)
NewsWorks Tonight
Delaware
Kids
Sports

As Sixers break ground on new Wilmington fieldhouse, developer makes promises to the neighborhood

The arena for the 76ers minor league team will also be a training center for elite youth athletes and offer programs for low-income city kids, developer Rob Buccini says.

7 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight
Food & Drink
Pennsylvania
Race & Ethnicity

The long road to becoming Pa.’s first black-owned brewery

This weekend, Pittsburgh is slated to host the first festival of black craft beer brewers from around the country.

7 years ago

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