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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Courts & Law

Anti-abortion demonstrators, including Phyllis Schlafly, foreground, rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 29, 1992. The high court upheld most provisions of a restrictive Pennsylvania abortion law.
The Why
History
Pennsylvania
Politics

Deja Roe

A Pennsylvania case that got to the Supreme Court in 1992 could have spelled the end for Roe vs. Wade.

Air Date: October 29, 2018

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Appellate court nominees Bridget S. Bade and Eric D. Miller are sworn in during a hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Only two senators — Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah — were in attendance. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics

Trump, Republicans continue remaking the federal courts — even as Senate on recess

President Trump and Senate Republicans are remaking the federal courts in their own image.

7 years ago

People gather on a corner near the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pa., where a shooter opened fire Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, injuring multiple people. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)
National
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

11 killed, 6 injured in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting; FBI investigating as hate crime

A law enforcement official has identified the suspect in a shooting Saturday at a Pittsburgh synagogue as Robert Bowers.

7 years ago

An undated police mugshot of Cesar Sayoc, who was charged Friday with sending explosive devices to critics of President Trump. (Broward County Sheriff's Office via Getty Images)
NPR
National

Who is Cesar Sayoc? Bomb suspect has criminal history, attacked Democrats online

Cesar Sayoc has a long criminal history, including a charge of making a bomb threat.

7 years ago

A 12-member jury are deliberating charges against inmates allegedly involved in a prison riot (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Delaware
Public Safety

‘Star witness’ testifies against fellow Delaware inmates in fatal prison hostage siege

A convicted murderer who once headed a notorious Baltimore prison gang testified Friday for Delaware prosecutors against four fellow inma ...

7 years ago

This Nov. 1, 2017, photo shows a van with windows covered with an assortment of stickers in Well, Fla. Federal authorities took Cesar Sayoc into custody on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, and confiscated his van, which appears to be the same one, at an auto parts store in Plantation, Fla., in connection with the mail-bomb scare that has targeted prominent Democrats from coast to coast. (Courtesy of Lesley Abravanel via AP)
National
Public Safety

Florida man charged after weeklong bomb-package scare

Law enforcement officials identified the man as Cesar Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, Florida.

7 years ago

Police outside the U.S. Post Office Royal Palm Processing
NPR

Authorities search Miami postal sorting facility in pipe bomb investigation

Federal agents and the Miami-Dade County Police Department searched the facility on Thursday night,

7 years ago

 This Dewey Beach neighborhood was inundated with flood waters during Superstorm Sandy. (Chuck Snyder/for NewsWorks)
Down the Shore
Criminal Justice
New Jersey

Jury convicts cop, wife for Superstorm Sandy fraud

An Ocean County jury convicted a police officer and his wife of stealing $187,000 by filing fraudulent applications for federal relief funds related to Superstorm Sandy.

7 years ago

Crystal Weimer was arrested in 2004 for third degree murder, a crime she didn’t commit. She spent nearly 12 years in prison and was exonerated on June 27, 2016, and all charges were dropped with prejudice. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
The Why
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Social Justice

I want my lawyer?

How one woman's experience with her county public defender's office resulted in 12 years in prison for a crime she didn't commit.

Air Date: October 25, 2018

Listen 13:42
Jose
Immigration
Pennsylvania

Chesco man arrested at green card interview released after 9 months in detention

Nearly nine months after federal immigration enforcement agents arrested and detained Jose “Ivan” Nu ...

7 years ago

Members of the Rise Above Movement (Screenshot via YouTube Lucas Waldron/ProPublica)
National
Public Safety
Social Justice
ProPublica

4 members of violent white supremacist group face riot charges, federal authorities say

The charges are against members of the Rise Above Movement.

7 years ago

U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss details a new task force led by the DEA to arrest and prosecute those who distribute heroin and fentanyl. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Addiction
Behavioral Health
Delaware

Delaware launches overdose task force to prevent opioid deaths

Joel Davis thought he was taking a dose of heroin inside his Newark home on Feb. 15, 2017. What he didn’t know was that the drug had be ...

7 years ago

Founders Hall at Haverford College (Wikimedia Common s)
Higher Education
Immigration
Pennsylvania

Haverford College sues Trump admin. over crackdown on lapsed student visas

More than one in ten of the 1,300 students enrolled at the 185-year-old Quaker institution have student visas.

7 years ago

The correctional complex on State Road in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Philly gets second MacArthur grant to cut prison population in half

Philadelphia has been awarded an additional $4 Million by the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge with the goal of decr ...

7 years ago

(Jared Wickerham/AP Photo, file)
Public Safety
Transportation

Female Uber passenger says she was assaulted, calls company’s business model ‘dangerous’ for women

A Philadelphia woman called an Uber car one fall afternoon, and the trip quickly took an ugly turn.

7 years ago

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