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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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Public Safety

N.J. man pleads guilty in pressure-cooker bomb plot case

Twenty-one-year-old Gregory Lepsky pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

8 years ago

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Delaware
Law

Trial for former Wilmington Trust execs begins

The trial of four former Wilmington Trust executives accused of bank fraud and conspiracy began in Delaware’s federal court Monday. ...

8 years ago

A bus leaves the correctional complex on State Road in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
Criminal Justice
Housing
Philadelphia

Coalition gets data to help cut Philadelphia’s recidivism rate

The 24-page report provides a snapshot of these former inmates – their gender, race and what ZIP codes they’re expected to call home.

8 years ago

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Down the Shore

Man allegedly threatened to "open fire" with machine gun at rally

Authorities have arrested an Ocean County man for allegedly threatening to shoot a gun at a rally in support of stricter gun control laws.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court redrew the commonwealth's congressional map last month, after declaring it unconstitutionally gerrymandered. Now, Republicans in the legislature are appealing to two federal courts to stay the change.
Elections
Pennsylvania

Federal judges hear arguments in Pa. redistricting case

A fraught redistricting battle in Pennsylvania has taken a small step forward.

8 years ago

Martin Shkreli is interviewed by Maria Bartiromo during her
Business
Medicine

‘Pharma Bro’ tearfully apologizes, then sentenced to prison

Martin Shrkeli, the smirking "Pharma Bro" vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for defrauding investors.

8 years ago

Anthony White. (Image: New Jersey Office of Attorney General)
Down the Shore

Ocean County man admits to possessing massive child pornography cache

An Ocean County man is facing years in prison after pleading guilty this week to child pornography charges, state authorities announced. 

8 years ago

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NPR
Business
Medicine
National

Probe into generic drug price fixing set to widen

Forty-five states and the DOJ are claiming that generic drug prices are fixed, and the alleged collusion may have cost U.S. business and consumers more than $1 billion.

8 years ago

Bill Cosby winks as he arrives for a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Tuesday, March 6, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight

Cosby lawyers urge judge not to allow 19 prior accusers to testify

More than 50 women have alleged Cosby sexually assaulted them, spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s.

8 years ago

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Sharon Patrick and Melissa Fratanduono-Meo
Criminal Justice
Law
Public Safety

Families of murdered Bucks County victims sue parents of confessed killer and his cousin

Families of 3 of the 4 young men murdered on a Bucks County farm last summer are suing the confessed killer, Cosmo DiNardo, as well as his cousin and co-defendant Sean Kratz

8 years ago

Alma Aparicio spoke at a pro-DACA rally at Rutgers Camden, where she is a student. She immigrated to the United States when she was 3 and is able to work and attend school under the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program, now threatened by the Trump administration.
Immigration
New Jersey
Social Justice

In New Jersey, immigrant activists try to reclaim DACA deadline day

While two court decisions largely invalidated Trump’s deadline, activists held six rallies across New Jersey Monday to mark the occasion and to add a defiant twist.

8 years ago

Bill Cosby arrives for a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Monday, March 5, 2018, in Norristown, Pa.
NewsWorks Tonight

Judge denies request to throw out Cosby charges, hears arguments on calling 19 past accusers

If the first morning of court arguments in the hearings ahead of Bill Cosby’s retrial are any barometer, hostility between both sides is poised to be high.

8 years ago

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 Bill Cosby walks from the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., Friday, June 9, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)

Cosby case back in court for hearing before April 2 retrial

Bill Cosby will be back in Montgomery County court Monday for what is expected to be two days of pre-trial hearings.

8 years ago

 Students gather outside Howard High following the death of Amy Joyner-Francis in April 2016. (File/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12

Delaware Supreme Court overturns conviction in fatal school attack

The Delaware Supreme Court has overturned the criminally negligent homicide conviction of a girl in the fatal beating of a 16-year-old at a high school in 2016.

8 years ago

From left to right: Diego Uribe, Ben Shaman, Jake Richard, and Quinn Berger evalute Pennsylvania's new congressional district map compared to the 2011 version at the Westtown School in West Chester, Pa. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

Despite landmark Pa. court decision, subjectivity remains in congressional mapmaking process

Now that districts have been completely overhauled, some big questions remain: just how much gerrymandering is too much?

8 years ago

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