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Planet Money is on a quest to explain the economy with playful storytelling and deep dive, roll up your sleeves journalism. How I Built This host Guy Raz talks to entrepreneurs and idealists who take us through the often challenging journeys they took to build their businesses.

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American-born news anchor Marzieh Hashemi sits in a studio in Tehran where she works for Iran's state television. She was arrested Sunday during a visit to the U.S., her family says. She is testifying behind closed doors to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., in an unspecified case, a U.S. judge said Friday. (Press TV/AP)
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International
Media

After days of silence, court says detained Iranian-American is testifying

An Iranian-American woman arrested five days ago during a visit to the U.S. is testifying behind closed doors to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., a U.S. federal judge said.

6 years ago

Taryn Mitchell playing with her daughter at Folsom Women's Facility in Folsom Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Radio Times
Criminal Justice
Race & Ethnicity

Incarcerated mothers and their children

What happens to a child when their mother is sent to prison?

Air Date: January 18, 2019 10:00 am

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Thousands fill the Benjamin Franklin Parkway near the Philadelphia Museum of Art during the second Women's March on Jan. 20, 2018. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Social Justice

In Philly and through region, thousands of women will march toward better tomorrow

Thousands of women will join marches Saturday to support an array of social justice issues. In Atlantic City, they'll be honoring civil rights trailblazer Fannie Lou Hamer.

6 years ago

Six former officers of Wilmington Trust have been sentenced to prison for financial crimes. (image via Google Maps)
Criminal Justice
Delaware

2 more former Wilmington Trust officers get prison time for ‘tangled web’ of crimes

Six former officials of the former Wilmington Trust bank, including former CEO Robert Harra, are now headed to prison for financial crimes.

6 years ago

Carnations are piled beside a portrait of murder victim Jenna Burleigh after a memorial service at Temple University's Founder's Garden
Criminal Justice

Jurors convict man in Temple University student slaying

Jurors in Philadelphia have convicted a man in the murder of a 22-year-old Temple University student. The panel convicted 30-year- ...

6 years ago

In this Oct. 30, 2018 file photo, from left, former Detective David March, Chicago Police Officer Thomas Gaffney and former officer Joseph Walsh appear at a pre-trial hearing in Chicago. The three Chicago police officers are accused of participating in a cover-up of the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune via AP)
National

Judge acquits 3 Chicago officers of Laquan McDonald cover-up

A judge on Thursday acquitted three Chicago police officers of trying to cover up the 2014 police shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald to try to protect another officer.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania's Clean Slate Law allows for the sealing of most simple assault convictions and first-degree misdemeanors. (Photo by Flickr user Nic McPhee, used under a Creative Commons license)
Criminal Justice
Broke In Philly

Pa.’s new Clean Slate Law means jail time is no longer a life sentence

Pennsylvania's Clean Slate Law allows for the sealing of most simple assault convictions and first-degree misdemeanors.

6 years ago

New Jersey's Supreme Court justice hear arguments in May. (AP file photo)
New Jersey

Gone, now forgotten: N.J. Supreme Court tosses 780K old warrants

More than three-quarters of a million old municipal warrants for minor offenses have been dismissed by New Jersey's Supreme Court.

6 years ago

In this Dec. 13, 2018, file photo, teen migrants walk in line inside the Tornillo detention camp in Tornillo, Texas. Government investigators say many more migrant children may have been separated from their parents than the Trump administration has acknowledged.  (Andres Leighton/AP)
Government Accountability
Immigration

Watchdog: Many more migrant families may have been separated

Investigators concluded that the true number of migrant children separated from their parents is unknown and could be much higher than the 2,700 reported.

6 years ago

(AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith;  AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli; AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Philadelphia
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Streets & Roads
Transportation

The census citizenship question / ACA contraceptive coverage / Philly’s deadliest roadway

Guests: Ari Berman, Allison Hoffman, Jason Laughlin ...

Air Date: January 17, 2019 10:00 am

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Beth Perz, whose son Brad died of a drug overdose a few weeks ago, speaks during a press conference in Chester. Officials in Chester County announced Tuesday that it would be the latest in a slew of local governments to sue opioid manufacturers. (Nina Feldman/WHYY News)

Chester County joins local governments suing opioid manufacturers

Officials say pharmaceutical companies should have to pay for treatment, law enforcement, and recovery efforts caused by the opioid epidemic.

6 years ago

William Barr, nominee to be Attorney General, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. (Getty Images)
NPR
Politics

‘Not the president’s lawyer’: Senators push attorney general pick Barr on impartiality

6 years ago

Unauthorized immigrants leave a court in shackles in McAllen, Texas. More than 40,000 immigration court hearings have been canceled since the government shutdown (John Moore/Getty Images)
NPR
Immigration
National

Government shutdown leads to a spike in canceled immigration hearings

Almost 43,000 immigration court hearings have been canceled as a result of the partial government shutdown.

6 years ago

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, approved adding a question about U.S. citizenship status to the 2020 census. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
National

Judge orders Trump administration to remove 2020 Census citizenship question

A federal judge in New York has ruled against the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

6 years ago

Giovanni Hatter has filed two complaints against Philadelphia police for what he says were unnecessary stops. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Philadelphia
Policing

Why black drivers are disproportionately stopped in this Philly police district

Philadelphia's Defender Association says cops pull over more African-American drivers in the 14th Police District than white ones. Is racial profiling to blame?

Air Date: January 15, 2019

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