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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Courts & Law

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Mary Daly, 40, to the newly created post of opioid coordinator in February, making her the hub for the Justice Department's efforts to try to get a grip on the epidemic.
NPR

Federal prosecutor takes on new case as DOJ point person for opioid crisis

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Daly, 40, to the newly created post of opioid coordinator in February.

9 years ago

Bill Cosby arrives for a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case, Friday, March 30, 2018, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania

Cosby trial take two: What you need to know

After jury selection and recent motions in retrial, here's the latest.

9 years ago

Attorney General Jeff Sessions at a roundtable meeting on sanctuary cities hosted by President Trump earlier this month.
(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
Immigration
National

Sessions orders ‘zero tolerance’ policy for border crossers

His one-page order lacks specifics on how the policy will be carried out.

9 years ago

Philly DA Larry Krasner announces a new Victims Advisory Committee (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Amid criticism, Philly DA Krasner establishing crime victims advisory panel

Families of crime victims have criticized the new district attorney. Krasner has apologized and says the 'door is open.'

9 years ago

Anti-abortion-rights demonstrators stand outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2014 after oral arguments over buffer zones around abortion clinics. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
National

What free speech has to do with skim milk, condoms and corporate political spending

Below are a few of the cases from the 21st century that highlight what the right to free speech has come to embody.

9 years ago

Radio Times
Law
Politics

Update on special counsel Mueller’s investigation

Guest: Josh Gerstein We get an update on Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion. Politic ...

Air Date: April 6, 2018

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Jury selection finished Thursday, and the sexual assault retrial of Bill Cosby is set to begin Monday at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania

Jury set for Bill Cosby’s second criminal trial

The criminal retrial of Bill Cosby is slated to start Monday with a jury of seven men and five women.

9 years ago

Aerial view of Graterford State Prison in Southeastern Pennsylvania. (Chris Gardner/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Criminal Justice
Mental Health
Philadelphia

‘This is not ordinary’: 5 inmate suicides in 3 months at Graterford

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is under pressure to act after five inmates at Graterford Prison have committed suicide in the last three months.

9 years ago

Listen 1:53
Bill Cosby, right, arrives for his sexual assault case spokesperson Andrew Wyatt, center, at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Norristown, Pa.
NewsWorks Tonight
Pennsylvania

Jury selected in Cosby retrial after defense team accuses prosecutors of racial bias

The 12 people who will decide whether Bill Cosby should be convicted of sexual assault have been selected.

9 years ago

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Martin Luther King speaks in Atlanta in 1960.
NPR
History
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Despite swirl of conspiracy theories, investigators say the MLK case is closed

Authorities have investigated the death of Martin Luther King Jr. five times since his murder in April 1968.

9 years ago

Former Philadelphia Sheriff John D. Green outside the Federal Courthouse. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Government Accountability
Philadelphia

Former Philly Sheriff John Green beats charges in federal corruption case

Former Philadelphia sheriff avoids conviction on five federal corruption charges stemming from the award of contracts to businesses owned by a friend.

9 years ago

Firefighters at the scene of a fire at the the Barclay Friends Senior Living Community in West Chester, Pa., Friday, Nov. 17, 2017.
Pennsylvania

Nursing home sprinkler not working during fatal blaze, lawyers for victims contend

The nursing home in Chester County that burned last year, killing four residents, may not have had an operating sprinkler system, attorneys for victims say.

9 years ago

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks at a news conference after a DACA hearing at a Brooklyn court on Jan. 30. New York state is leading a group of 17 states in a lawsuit to try to remove a new citizenship question from the 2020 Census questionnaire.
NPR
Government Accountability

17 states, 7 cities sue to remove citizenship question from 2020 census

The census has not asked all U.S. households about citizenship since 1950.

9 years ago

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks at a civics event in January in Seattle. Sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent about police shootings Monday
NPR
Criminal Justice
Policing
Social Justice

Police shootings stir outrage among some, but not the Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has again stepped into the bitter public turmoil over police shootings of civilians.

9 years ago

Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Tuesday, April 3, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. (Corey Perrine/AP Photo)
Criminal Justice

Previously banned witness who calls main Cosby accuser a liar will get to testify

Bill Cosby’s legal defense team had two major wins on Tuesday when the judge in the case cleared the way for new evidence favorable to the 80-year-old comedian.

9 years ago

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