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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

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Maine bars Trump from ballot as U.S. Supreme Court weighs state authority to block former president

The decision by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows follows a ruling earlier this month by the Colorado Supreme Court that booted Trump from the ballot there.

3 years ago

Actor Pierce Brosnan attends the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix's The Out-Laws on June 26. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
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Pierce Brosnan faces charges after allegedly walking in Yellowstone’s thermal areas

Brosnan, who is best known for his stint as James Bond in the 1990s, was charged in Wyoming with failing to keep to the trails. He's due in federal court on Jan. 23.

3 years ago

This image from video from a police-worn body camera provided by the Justice Department and contained in the statement of facts shows Samuel Lazar, bottom left, at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Court documents unsealed this week say that a Pennsylvania man who was sentenced in secret for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot cooperated with authorities investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and an unrelated case. The documents provide insight into the unusual secrecy regarding Samuel Lazar, who was released from federal custody in September after completing his sentence in his Capitol riot case. (Justice Department via AP)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Policing
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Jan. 6 rioter who was sentenced in secret provided information to authorities, court papers say

The documents provide insight into the unusual secrecy regarding Samuel Lazar, who was released from federal custody in September after completing his sentence.

3 years ago

The New York Times filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft seeking to end the practice of using its published material to train chatbots. (Mark Lennihan/AP)
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Media
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Technology

The New York Times sues ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Microsoft, for copyright infringement

The Times is the first major news publisher to take OpenAI to court over the use of its copyright material in its popular chatbot.

3 years ago

Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford speaks at a podium
Crime
Philadelphia

More cold-case sexual assault charges for ‘Fairmount Park rapist’ accused of 2003 rape and slaying

Police say Diaz has now been charged in three other cold-case assaults, two in Fairmount Park in 2003 and one in Pennypack Park in 2007.

3 years ago

File photo: Former President Donald Trump listens as he speaks with reporters while in flight on his plane after a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, in Waco, Texas, March 25, 2023, while en route to West Palm Beach, Fla.
Elections
Government Accountability
Law
Politics

Michigan Supreme Court will keep Trump on 2024 ballot

Wednesday's ruling follows a decision by a divided Colorado Supreme Court, which said Trump is ineligible to be president after his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

3 years ago

Sen. Bob Menendez leaves federal court, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, in New York.
Government Accountability
New Jersey

Prosecutors oppose Sen. Bob Menendez’s effort to delay May bribery trial until July

Menendez has pleaded not guilty to a bribery conspiracy charge alleging he and his wife accepted bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car from three New Jersey businessmen.

3 years ago

New Jersey Sen. Teresa Ruiz speaks into a microphone
Behavioral Health
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New Jersey

N.J. has a new diversion program for people with mental illness who commit certain types of crimes

People with mental illness who commit certain crimes in N.J. may be diverted out of the criminal justice system.

3 years ago

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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023, in Reno, Nev. In a brief filed Saturday, Trump asked a federal appeals court to dismiss an election interference case against him, arguing he's immune from prosecution. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP)
NPR
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Trump asks appeals court to toss election interference case, arguing that he’s immune

The legal filing late Saturday comes after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to fast track a dispute on whether the former President is immune from prosecution.

3 years ago

Benjamin Ledyard arriving at the courthouse
Crime
Delaware

Former Delaware bank executive whose second wife’s murder remains unsolved gets 2 years in prison for brutalizing third wife

Victim Stephanie Ledyard begged the court to give her husband probation, but the judge said pictures of her New Year’s Day beating looked like “autopsy photos.”

3 years ago

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference after his defamation trial outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. A jury awarded $148 million in damages on Friday to two former Georgia election workers who sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation over lies he spread about them in 2020 that upended their lives with racist threats and harassment. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
NPR
Elections
Law
National
Politics

Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy a day after a judge orders him to pay $146 million

Giuliani reported millions of dollars in debt from lawsuits, unpaid taxes and outstanding legal fees.

3 years ago

Thao Le stands next to a fence and an open area that's her property.
Business
Law
New Jersey
Real Estate

Cinnaminson business owner wins court fight to keep her properties

The court ruled the township did not show that her properties posed a risk to the “safety, health, morals, and welfare of the community.”

3 years ago

Listen 1:15
File photo: A Star of David hangs from a fence outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, April 19, 2023.
Criminal Justice
National
Religion

White supremacist sentenced for threatening jury and witnesses at synagogue shooter’s trial

Hardy Carroll Lloyd was sentenced to more than six years in federal prison Wednesday.

3 years ago

Philadelphia K-9 unit police walk into an area of Fairmount Park where the body of a woman, suspected to be that of fourth-year medical student Rebecca Park, was discovered, July 17, 2003, during an ongoing investigation of the scene the following day, July 18, in Philadelphia.
Crime
Philadelphia

Alleged ‘Fairmount Park rapist’ charged in 2003 rape, murder of medical student Rebecca Park

In 2021, a DNA analysis helped create a series of composite sketches of the man believed responsible for the assaults.

3 years ago

File photo: Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., chair of the House Freedom Caucus, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 14, 2023.
Criminal Justice
Elections
Pennsylvania
Politics

Rep. Scott Perry told to hand over hundreds of texts and emails to FBI in 2020 election probe

The ruling, late Monday, came more than a year after Perry’s personal cellphone was seized by federal authorities.

3 years ago

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