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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.
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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.

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Chief Justice John Roberts says the Supreme Court
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Politics

Chief Justice Roberts issues rare rebuke to Trump; Trump fires back

Within hours, the president fired back on Twitter, launching an unusual conflict between the executive and judicial branches.

8 years ago

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Down the Shore
New Jersey

Multiple people found dead at Monmouth County fire scene

At least four people were found dead at the scene of a mansion fire in Monmouth County early Tuesday afternoon, authorities say. 

8 years ago

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

Jury in first Delaware prison riot trial convicts two, one of murder

A jury has found one of three inmates charged in a deadly 2017 prison riot in Delaware guilty of felony murder and murder of a law enforcement officer while on duty.

8 years ago

Listen 1:48
Counter-protesters shout at those taking part in the
Philadelphia

Glenside man charged with assaulting Philly police captain during Saturday rally

A suburban Philadelphia man was charged Saturday with assaulting a city police captain during the “We the People” rally in su ...

8 years ago

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker gestures after speaking at the Dept. of Justice's Annual Veterans Appreciation Day Ceremony, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
National
Politics

Democratic senators sue over Whitaker’s appointment as AG

Three Senate Democrats filed a lawsuit Monday arguing that Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s appointment is unconstitution ...

8 years ago

Officers at the Cumberland County Prison walk the halls in Carlisle, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Health Care
Medicine

Pa. Department of Corrections to provide costly hepatitis C treatment to nearly 5,000 inmates

Pa.'s DOC has agreed to treat the state’s nearly 5,000 inmates with hepatitis C over the next three years.

8 years ago

Larry Krasner is District Attorney of Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Home & Family
Philadelphia

Philly DA says he’s striving for justice not harshest sentence in homicide cases

Some family of murder victims have called this approach unjust.

8 years ago

Listen 1:13
Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene A. DePasquale, speaks after he was sworn in for his second term at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. (Chris Knight/AP Photo)
Aging
Pennsylvania

Pa. auditor general to investigate nursing homes, citing staffing issues

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene Depasquale plans to conduct follow-up audits of nursing homes.

8 years ago

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Feb. 19 about whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross can be deposed for the lawsuits over the citizenship question he added to the 2020 census. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
National

Supreme Court to weigh in on dispute over census citizenship question evidence

A hearing over these issues is scheduled to be held on Feb. 19.

8 years ago

CNN's Jim Acosta gestures as he leaves federal court in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, following a hearing on a legal challenge against President Donald Trump's administration over the revocation of his White House
Media
Politics

Judge: White House must return CNN’s Jim Acosta’s credential

The White House's explanations for why it seized Acosta's credentials have shifted over the last week.

8 years ago

Khieu Samphan, (left), former Khmer Rouge head of state, stands at the dock in a court room during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Friday. (Nhet Sok/AP/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
NPR
History
International
Military

Verdict on Khmer Rouge leaders is first to officially acknowledge regime’s genocide

The last two surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s were found guilty Friday by an international tribunal.

8 years ago

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

Jury gets the case in Vaughn prison uprising trial

Prosecutors and defendants argued over the legitimacy of evidence and inmate testimonies during closing arguments in a trial for three pr ...

8 years ago

Listen 1:34
At the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia Thursday, the national anti-death penalty organization Witness to Innocence calls for Pennsylvania to abolish the death penalty. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

Exonerated death-row inmates push Pa. to abolish capital punishment

Witness to Innocence, a national anti-death penalty organization based in Philadelphia, ...

8 years ago

Attorney Jeff Anderson announces a suit against the Pennsylvania’s eight Catholic dioceses on behalf of victims of clergy child sexual abuse. He is joined by victim Daniel Hillanbrand and Hillanbrand’s wife, Donna. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Public Safety
Religion

New lawsuit against Pa. Catholic dioceses demands more secrets be revealed

Two people who have accused priests of molestation in Philadelphia have filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference and ...

8 years ago

Listen 1:22
Johnny Bobbitt Jr., (left), Kate McClure, and Mark D'Amico pose at a gas station
Addiction
Homelessness

GoFundMe benefit scheme: Couple charged, homeless man in custody

It's not exactly clear what happened with the money, though Bobbitt's attorney has said it's all gone.

8 years ago

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