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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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Pennsylvania
Religion

Clergy abuse and cover up in Pa.

Guests: Kevin McCorry, Mark Rozzi, Lawrence Persico On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Attorney General released a scathing ...

Air Date: August 15, 2018 10:00 am

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The Walmart in the Cedarbrook Plaza Shopping Center. (Google Maps)

Police arrest two suspects in Cheltenham Walmart shootings

Authorities say two people were arrested after a reported shooting at a Walmart near Philadelphia. Emergency dispatchers in Montgo ...

7 years ago

Two Guatemalan families were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this year. The children remain in the U.S. while the fathers have already been deported.
(Claire Harbage/NPR)
NPR
Immigration
National

Deported parents describe agonizing wait to be reunited with their children

The last time Pablo saw his son was in Texas.

7 years ago

Bridgeton, N.J. police car
Criminal Justice
New Jersey

After a spate of killings, prosecutor says Cumberland County is not a ‘war zone’

Three recent killings have shocked the South Jersey community, not only for their dizzying pace, but also for the fact that children were among the victims and witnesses.

7 years ago

Still from a Township of Hamilton Police Department dashcam

N.J. Supreme Court: Police dash camera recordings not public records

The 4-3 ruling found that because there's no law mandating the recordings be made, they aren't subject to disclosure.

7 years ago

Stethoscope (bigstockphoto.com)
New Jersey

Federal task force targets health fraud in New Jersey region

A tip helped break one of the largest health fraud cases ever prosecuted in New Jersey, leading to dozens of convictions over the last several years.

7 years ago

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Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Policing

Police shooting raises questions about use of force training

Recruits learn procedural justice, which involves using a measured tone of voice, careful choice of words and nonthreatening physical approach to avoid conflict.

7 years ago

The Oakland Police Department remains under federal oversight 15 years after settling a civil rights case against it. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Policing
Race & Ethnicity

In Oakland, more data hasn’t meant less racial disparity during police stops

For more than 15 years, Oakland's police department has been under federal oversight following a police abuse and racial profiling scandal.

7 years ago

Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller may be running out of space to maneuver — or he may not. But the White House is calibrating its strategy as though a clock is ticking. (Getty Image)
NPR
National
Politics

The Russia investigations: Is Robert Mueller stumbling into time trouble?

Mueller has roughly three weeks to do whatever he's going to do and then — who knows?

7 years ago

Edward Bonek. Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office image.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Prosecutors: Jersey Shore principal had child porn on his school computer

Authorities say hundreds of child pornography images and videos were found on the school-issued computer of a principal at a southern Jersey Shore high school.

7 years ago

Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson, shown on July 9, listening to his attorney speak about his condition during the Monsanto trial in San Francisco. On Friday, a jury awarded Johnson $289 million in damages after ruling that Monsanto intentionally concealed the health risks of its popular Roundup products. (Josh Edelson/AP)
NPR
Public Health

Jury awards terminally ill man $289 million in lawsuit against Monsanto

Monsanto has consistently denied that glyphosate-based herbicides cause cancer.

7 years ago

Public domain image.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Teen in critical condition after Shore hit-and-run

Authorities are searching for a driver that fled after striking and critically injuring a teenage girl in Ocean County. 

7 years ago

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, pictured in 2008, has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting immigrants under new rules that largely bar asylum in domestic and gang violence cases.
(Charles Dharapak/AP)
NPR
Immigration

Deported asylum-seekers brought back on angry judge’s orders

A federal judge has threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen in contempt of court.

7 years ago

Former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Philadelphia
Politics

Appeals court throws out former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah’s bribery convictions, affirms 29 other counts

Legal observers say retrying Fattah on the bribery-related charges may not even affect his 10-year prison term

7 years ago

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The Camden County Police mobile command sets up on Broadway near Mount Vernon Street in Camden, where two detectives were shot. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
New Jersey
Policing
Public Safety

Authorities release photos of persons of interest in shooting of 2 Camden police detectives

The officers were sitting in their vehicle at a red light in Camden when two gunmen allegedly opened fire, wounding them in what authorities are calling an ambush attack.

7 years ago

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