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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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Politics & Policy

Hundreds will be allowed in despite executive order; Iraq says it won’t retaliate

A senior U.S. official says 872 refugees will be allowed into the United States this week despite the Trump administration executive orde ...

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Jury set to deliberate in Sen. Farnese federal fraud trial

Federal jurors were set to begin deliberating fraud charges against Philadelphia state Sen. Larry Farnese. ...

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Cesar Espinosa
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A view of Trump’s wall from our neighbors to the south

During a recent vacation week in Playa del Carmen, a tourist town 30 miles south of the Cancun airport, I chatted with dozens of locals, ...

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Ramapough prayer camp in N.J. raises awareness about water poisoning
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A common cause; from Standing Rock to Sweet Water, New Jersey’s Pilgrim Pipeline

Teepees dot the plain beside the river, totem poles mark a circular prayer site, and men in moccasins and fur caps tend the ceremonial campfire.

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Toomey wary on how Trump order balances security, refugees

Pennsylvania’s Republican Sen. Pat Toomey says President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration was too broad and poor ...

8 years ago

Protestors chant slogans inside the terminal at Philadelphia International Airport. (Branden Eastwood for NewsWorks)

Thousands protest Trump immigration orders at PHL [photos]

An estimated 5,000 protesters filled the sidewalks and roadways outside of Philadelphia International Airport Sunday to denounce Presiden ...

8 years ago

Protesters march around the Philadelphia International Airport on the second day of action against President Trump's executive order banning and detaining refugees (Bastiaan Slabbers for NewsWorks)

UPDATE: Thousands protest Trump executive order detaining, deporting refugees at Philly airport

Updated: Sun. January 29, 2017, 5:50 p.m. According to airport officials, Philadelphia Police estimate t ...

8 years ago

Over 800 people attended a Congressional redistricting event in Philadelphia (Kyrie Greenberg for NewsWorks)

Congressional redistricting event draws surprising crowd in Philly

This week, more than 800 people filled Arch St. United Methodist Church, to learn about a subject that you may have missed in civics clas ...

8 years ago

Protestors angered by President Donald Trump’s executive order that prevented refugees, visa and green card holders from entering the US chant pro immigration slogans at Philadelphia International Airport. (Branden Eastwood for NewsWorks)
Immigration
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Family of six Syrians who were detained at Philly airport and sent back: ‘How much can one family take?’

Earlier this morning, Sarah Assali’s mother was already planning a big dinner. Makes sense, since Assali had been anticipating the ...

8 years ago

Protesters assemble at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017 after two Iraqi refugees were detained while trying to enter the country. On Friday, Jan. 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending all immigration from countries with terrorism concerns for 90 days. Countries included in the ban are Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen, which are all Muslim-majority nations. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Airport detentions spur protest in Philly, across nation [photos]

Updated: Sat., January 28, 11:10 p.m. As news of the detentions spread, protesters gathered at airports ...

8 years ago

Protesters assemble at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017 after two Iraqi refugees were detained while trying to enter the country. On Friday, Jan. 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending all immigration from countries with terrorism concerns for 90 days. Countries included in the ban are Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen, which are all Muslim-majority nations. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Two Pa. GOP Congressmen outspoken against Trump immigration ban

Updated: Sun. January 29, 2017, 10:10 a.m. Two Pennsylvania GOP congressmen have broken with President T ...

8 years ago

Charge dropped for journalist arrested in Trump protest

Prosecutors have dropped the felony rioting charge filed against a journalist who was arrested after protesters began breaking windows in ...

8 years ago

Protesters gather at Thomas Paine Plaza on Thursday afternoon under a steady drizzle. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Health care must be provided communally

Every once in a while, when I write something in defense of the Affordable Care Act, or point out that repealing it will lead 1.1 million ...

8 years ago

Natasha Taylor-Smith from Montgomery County (center) listens to Anne Wakabayashi, the executive director of EmergePA.  EmergePA is a democratic organization designed to prepare women who want to run for public office. (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks)

‘Unprecedented’ numbers of Pa. women from both parties looking to run for office

At 5:30 in the morning of November 9, 2016, Natasha Taylor-Smith crept into her 13-year-old daughter’s bedroom.  She pi ...

8 years ago

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President Donald Trump gestures while speaking at the Republican congressional retreat in Philadelphia

Trump to GOP lawmakers: ‘Our chance to achieve great change’

President Donald Trump on Thursday rallied fellow Republicans who control the White House and Congress for the first time in more than a ...

8 years ago

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