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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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File photo: Demonstrators gather on the steps to the State Capitol to speak against transgender-related legislation bills being considered in the Texas Senate and Texas House, May 20, 2021, in Austin, Texas. A Texas judge on Friday, June 10, 2022, temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received gender-confirming medical care, a new obstacle to the state labeling such treatments as child abuse. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Judge blocks Texas investigating families of trans youth

The order also prevents the state from opening any similar investigations against members of the LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG Inc.

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Beachgoers are seen on the beach at the Jersey Shore, with the ocean in the background.
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Two Jersey Shore towns go to court to block pop-up parties

Two popular Jersey Shore towns are going to court to try to block so-called “pop-up parties” at which thousands of people gather on the beach.

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A TV display shows video evidence of a Grand Rapids police officer struggling with and shooting Patrick Lyoya at Grand Rapids City Hall on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. (Cory Morse | MLive.com)
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Michigan officer charged with murder in Lyoya shooting

Prosecutor Chris Becker announced the charges Thursday against Grand Rapids Officer Christopher Schurr, weeks after Lyoya was killed following a chaotic traffic stop on April

3 years ago

Boxes of recounted ballots from the recent Pennsylvania primary election are stacked at the Chester County Voter Services office in West Chester, Pa., Wednesday, June 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Supreme Court allows counting of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania

The Supreme Court is allowing election officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time.

3 years ago

Ryan Kelly, a Republican candidate for governor, attends a rally in support of First Amendment rights and to protest against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on May 15, 2021. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)
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Michigan candidate for governor, Ryan Kelley, arrested by FBI for Jan. 6 involvement

He's one of a few remaining GOP candidates running for governor in Michigan who hasn't been accused of signature fraud.

3 years ago

Philadelphia Police investigators work the scene of a fatal overnight shooting on South Street in Philadelphia, Sunday, June 5, 2022
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Krasner: A fistfight on South Street devolved into gunfire, random shots in crowd

Quadir Dukes-Hill and Nahjee Whittington were both taken into custody in Richmond, Virginia.

3 years ago

Donald Trump, left, his son Donald Trump Jr., center, and his daughter Ivanka
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Trump set to undergo questioning in July in NY civil probe

Former President Donald Trump, his namesake son and his daughter Ivanka have agreed to answer questions under oath next month.

3 years ago

Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh stands during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington last year. (Erin Schaff/AP)
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Police arrest an armed man outside Justice Kavanaugh’s house

An armed man arrested near Kavanaugh's home was charged with "attempts to kidnap or murder, or threatens to assault, kidnap or murder" the justice.

3 years ago

Bill Cosby is seen on the left; On the right,
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‘Donkey Kong defense’ arises at Bill Cosby sex abuse trial

A dispute over the arcade game Donkey Kong arose during Bill Cosby's civil trial over allegations that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.

3 years ago

Proud Boys leader Henry 'Enrique' Tarrio wears a hat that says The War Boys during a rally in Portland, Ore., Sept. 26, 2020. (Allison Dinner/AP)
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Proud Boys leader Tarrio, four others, charged with seditious conspiracy

The leader of the far-right Proud Boys group and four associates have been charged with seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.

3 years ago

Siren light on roof of police car at street.
Black Lives Matter
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N.J. program that pairs police, mental health screeners in South Jersey expands

A program that began in Cumberland Co., pairing a plainclothes state trooper with a certified mental health screener, will expand to Union Co.

3 years ago

Philadelphia Police investigators work the scene of a fatal overnight shooting on South Street in Philadelphia, Sunday, June 5, 2022
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Philadelphia

Second suspect in custody after South Street mass shooting

Authorities have said the gunfire started with an altercation between Quran Garner and an unnamed suspect, both of whom then began firing a total of 17 shots at each other.

3 years ago

David Harrington poses for a photograph in Philadelphia, on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Harrington spent a tense eight months in a Philadelphia jail when he was a teenager — the result of a robbery charge in 2014 that automatically sent his case to the adult court system under state law.
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In historic shift, far fewer teens face adult U.S. courts

National data shows the number of children sent to adult courts for criminal prosecution in the U.S. has dropped to new lows.

3 years ago

File photo: Bill Cosby arrives for a sentencing hearing following his sexual assault conviction at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown Pa., on Sept. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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Woman testifies Cosby forcibly kissed her when she was 14

Her testimony Friday in a lawsuit filed by another woman is the first time she has told the story in a public venue.

3 years ago

File photo: Phoenix Mercury's Brittney Griner (42) is congratulated on a play against the Seattle Storm in the first half of the second round of the WNBA basketball playoffs Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, in Everett, Wash. Brittney Griner has been able to receive emails and letters from WNBA players to an account Griner’s agent set up to allow them to communicate with her. The emails are printed out and delivered sporadically in bunches to Griner by her lawyers after being vetted by Russian officials
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Brittney Griner receiving, answering WNBA players’ emails

The emails are printed out and delivered sporadically in bunches to Griner by her lawyers after being vetted by Russian officials.

3 years ago

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