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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

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Former Philadelphia police officer found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in 2017 shooting

Eric Ruch was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and possession of an instrument of crime in the death of Dennis Plowden Jr. following a car chase and crash in East German

4 years ago

Female inmates interact in their cell in this file photo. (Rick Bowmer/AP Photo, Pool)
Criminal Justice
Incarceration
Philadelphia

Philly jails see increase in women who are incarcerated, move to consolidate population

Prison officials say the move is designed to maximize efficiency behind prison walls. They say it will also allow more women to have visitors.

4 years ago

Terrence Floyd, brother of George Floyd, waits to speak at a Get Out the Vote Rally outside the Brooklyn Museum, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Black Lives Matter
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Ex-cop Lane gets 3 years in plea deal for aiding Floyd death

A former officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd was sentenced Wednesday to three years.

4 years ago

FILE - Donald Trump, right, sits with his children, from left, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Trump International Hotel on July 23, 2014, in Washington. New York’s attorney general sued former President Donald Trump and his company on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, alleging business fraud involving some of their most prized assets, including properties in Manhattan, Chicago and Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Crime
Government Accountability

NY attorney general sues Donald Trump and his company

Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit, filed in state court in New York, is the culmination of the Democrat’s three-year civil investigation of Trump and the Organization.

4 years ago

FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens to a question during a press conference Sept. 7, 2022, in Miami, Fla. The Republican governors of Florida and Texas have delivered migrants on planes and buses to Washington, D.C., New York City and even Martha's Vineyard, but they may just be getting started. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
Immigration
Social Justice

Migrants sue Florida governor over Martha’s Vineyard flights

The lawsuit alleges that the migrants were told they were going to Boston or Washington, “which was completely false," and were induced with perks.

4 years ago

Former President Donald Trump's attorneys Linsey Halligan, James Trusty, and Chris Kise arrive at Brooklyn Federal Court on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, in New York.  (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman)
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National
Politics

Arbiter in Trump docs probe signals intent to move quickly

Raymond Dearie, the veteran Brooklyn-based judge, also appeared skeptical of the Trump team’s reluctance to say whether it believed the records had been declassified.

4 years ago

File photo: A picture of Mountain Region Champion Little League team member Easton Oliverson, from Santa Clara, Utah, is shown on the scoreboard at Volunteer Stadium during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Little League World Series baseball tournament in South Williamsport, Pa., Wednesday, Aug 17, 2022. Oliverson was injured when he fell out of a bunk bed at the dormitory complex. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Kids
Pennsylvania
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Family sues Little League over bunk bed fall, head injury

The lawsuit accuses Little League International and Savoy Contract Furniture of Williamsport of negligence for using or selling bunk beds without safety railings.

4 years ago

The U.S. Department of Justice said 47 people devised and carried out a massive scheme to defraud the Federal Child Nutrition Program out of $250 million. (Yuri Gripas/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
NPR
Crime
Kids
National

DOJ charges 47 with stealing $250 million from a pandemic food program for kids

Officials called it a "brazen scheme of staggering proportions."

4 years ago

An old-fashioned meter with an expired sign.
Business
Government
Pennsylvania
Streets & Roads

Pa. judge allows Chester receiver to terminate controversial parking contract

The state-appointed receiver found that the city was seeing no revenue from the contractor — despite residents paying the highest parking fees in the region.

4 years ago

A worker processes mail-in ballots
Delaware
Elections

Ruling nixing vote-by-mail in Delaware on hold during appeal

The stay will allow elections officials to process mail-in voting applications and prepare ballots, but that they are not allowed to send the mail-in ballots to voters.

4 years ago

SEPTA riders board a bus in Center City, Philadelphia, on April 19, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Policing
Streets & Roads
Transportation

Philly police launching campaign to enforce bus lane restrictions

The goal is to improve efficiency by keeping the lanes open on SEPTA bus routes that are seeing increases in ridership.

4 years ago

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' flight that took 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., is being investigated by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office in Texas. The migrants were flown from Texas to Florida and then on to Martha's Vineyard. Here, DeSantis speaks at a rally on Aug. 19 in Pittsburgh. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
NPR
Immigration

A Texas sheriff will investigate DeSantis’ flight of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard

Authorities in Texas have opened a criminal investigation into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' flight last week that took roughly 50 Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

4 years ago

Adnan Syed leaves the Baltimore City Circuit Courthouse in Baltimore, Maryland February 5, 2016. The Maryland man whose 2000 murder conviction was thrown into question by the popular 'Serial' podcast was in court to argue he deserved a new trial because his lawyers had done a poor job with his case. (Carlos Barria/REUTERS)
NPR
Criminal Justice
Incarceration

Adnan Syed is released from prison after a Baltimore judge vacates his conviction

The office of the State's Attorney for Baltimore City said in a motion filed last week that there was new information about two potential alternative suspects.

4 years ago

File photo: In this Thursday, March 11, 2021 file photo, desks are arranged in a classroom at an elementary school in Nesquehoning, Pa
Kids
Law
Politics

Pa.’s ChildLine Registry does more harm than good for children of color

Attorney Jamie Gullen, who has spent a decade representing youth at Community Legal Services, takes aim at the state’s ChildLine Registry for violating due process rights.

4 years ago

A sign marks the facade of the Department of Justice building in Washington on May 5, 2022. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
NPR
Government Accountability
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National

DOJ appeals judge’s order barring its use of classified materials in Mar-a-Lago probe

The Justice Department is asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to lift part of an order that bars the government from using classified materials seized from Mar-A-Lago in

4 years ago

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