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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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Delaware Gov. John Carney, speaks at an Amtrak facility in Bear, Del., Monday, Nov. 6, 2023
Delaware
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Health Care
Public Health

Gov. Carney calls out sick for State of the State as Delaware sees an uptick in flu and COVID

It’s not clear what the governor has, but lots of Delawareans are sick too with COVID and flu cases rising.

2 years ago

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The Senate has approved a short-term spending bill to keep the government funded until early March. The House is set to vote on the measure later today.
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Congress passes stopgap spending measure to dodge Friday shutdown threat

The Senate has approved a stopgap funding measure to keep the full federal government funded until early March. The House is expected to vote later today.

2 years ago

A transformer station.
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Income Inequality
Pennsylvania
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Utility shut-off protections in Pa. would be expanded to summer months under bill

The legislature must reauthorize a law that shields people from winter utility shut-offs before the end of the year.

2 years ago

The Pennsylvania Capitol
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Law
Pennsylvania

Gun control measures advance out of Democratic-controlled Pennsylvania House committee

Even if the measures clear the House floor, however, they will likely face a cold reception in the state Senate, as did other gun control measures passed last year.

2 years ago

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Elections
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Pa. election 2024: What is the date of Pennsylvania’s presidential primary election?

Pennsylvania will hold its 2024 presidential primary election on April 23, one of the latest primary dates in the U.S.

2 years ago

Brewery
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Food & Drink
New Jersey
6abc

New Jersey governor eases restrictions on breweries in the state

Breweries, distilleries, and other companies can now also manufacture up to 300,000 barrels a year.

2 years ago

File photo: A customer makes a transaction at an automatic teller machine in Los Angeles on March 27, 2023.
Business
Law
National
Personal Finance

Overdraft fees could drop to as low as $3 under new Biden proposal

The change could potentially eliminate billions of dollars in fee revenue for the nation’s biggest banks, which were gearing up for a battle even before Wednesday’s announceme

2 years ago

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley (right) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (left) pointing at each other during the CNN Republican presidential debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024.
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Elections
Government
National

ABC News cancels its Republican primary debate due to not having enough participants

ABC News said candidates Donald Trump and Nikki Haley did not confirm their participation by the deadline.

2 years ago

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley gestures to the audience as she concludes a speech at a caucus night party at the Marriott Hotel in West Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024.
Elections
Government
National

Nikki Haley says she won’t debate Ron DeSantis in New Hampshire unless Donald Trump participates

Her comment on Tuesday came a day after the all-important Iowa caucuses, in which Trump marked a wide margin of victory over both Haley and DeSantis.

2 years ago

Senate Impeachment Trial Of President Trump Continues
NPR
Economy
Government
National

Bipartisan tax deal could expand Child Tax Credit and extend business tax breaks

The legislation expands a popular child tax credit and aplies to families with multiple children. It also speeds up some tax breaks for research and development expensing for

2 years ago

DES MOINES, IOWA - JANUARY 15: Former president Donald Trump speaks to voters during a visit to a caucus site at the Horizon Event Center on January 15, 2024 in Clive, Iowa. Iowans vote today in the state’s caucuses for the first contest in the 2024 Republican presidential nominating process. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
NPR
Elections

Donald Trump wins Iowa Republican caucuses in first contests of 2024

Former President Donald Trump has won the Iowa Republican caucuses, according to a race call by The Associated Press.

2 years ago

Joe Biden and Cherelle Parker working at the food bank together
Income Inequality
Philadelphia
Social Justice

Biden returns to Philly food bank for MLK Jr. Day volunteering

President Biden helped workers at Philabundance pack food for those in need. It’s the third time he’s volunteered at the Philly food bank.

2 years ago

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Sign for Iowa Caucuses
Elections
National

Iowa caucuses: What to watch as voters weigh in on the Republican campaign’s first contest of 2024

The quadrennial contest has been unusually quiet this year, a mark of former President Donald Trump's commanding lead in the race.

2 years ago

US climate envoy John Kerry delivers a speech during a discussion about oceans and water at the US pavillon in the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of the same name, during the COP27 climate conference on November 15, 2022.
NPR
Elections
Government
National

John Kerry to step down after 3 years as Biden’s top climate diplomat

Kerry has been central to Biden's efforts to establish the U.S. as an international climate leader.

2 years ago

Israeli soldiers take up positions near the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. Israel and Hamas have been at war for 100 days. The war already is the longest and deadliest between Israel and the Palestinians since Israel’s establishment in 1948, and the fighting shows no signs of ending.
NPR
International
Military

The catastrophe in Gaza after 100 days of Israel-Hamas war, by the numbers

Nearly 24,000 Palestinians have been killed since the conflict began on Oct. 7, a staggering toll.

2 years ago

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