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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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Cathy Stone (right), executive director of the Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County, holds up a headline-grabbing example of domestic abuse during a press conference to promote Pensylvania House Bill 2060, which prohibits abusers from possessing guns. She is joined by (from left) Sara Wallace of Moms Demand Action and state Rep. Leanne Krueger-Braneky, a co-sponsor of the bill. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics

Bill to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers stalled in Pa.

The bill passed the Pennsylvania Senate unanimously in March, but the House version never came up for a vote.

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Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, who is facing corruption charges, walks to the federal courthouse in Philadelphia during a break in a pretrial hearing, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. Pawlowski has denied accusations that he accepted more than $150,000 in campaign contributions in exchange for city contracts.
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Pennsylvania

Ex-Allentown mayor Pawlowski gets new sentencing date

Former Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski was originally scheduled for sentencing on his federal corruption conviction Wednesday. But his Phila ...

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New Jersey
Public Health

New Jersey water systems must start testing for PFNA in early 2019

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‘Idiot,’ ‘unhinged,’ a ‘sixth-grader’: Aides fault Trump in explosive new book

Woodward's latest book, Fear, is focused on the Trump White House and is set to be officially released on Sept. 11.

8 years ago

East Front of the U.S. Capitol at sunset in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Election security bill backers say delay helps Russia

Just two months before the midterm elections, bipartisan legislation to try to prevent foreign hacking into U.S. election systems is stalled in Congress.

8 years ago

FILE - In this June 29, 2018, file photo, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the media in Cincinnati. Dick Harpootlian, a longtime fixture in South Carolina’s Democratic political circles announced Wednesday, Aug. 1, that he’s getting a campaign boost from one of the party’s top dogs. In an email to supporters, Harpootlian said that he is being supported by Biden in his special election quest for a state Senate seat in the Columbia area. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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Advisers say Joe Biden to decide on a 2020 run by January

Biden is convinced he can beat President Donald Trump, friends and advisers say, and he has given himself until January to deliberate and size up potential competition.

8 years ago

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Delaware
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Delaware voters will head to the polls on Thursday instead of the traditional Tuesday to pick candidates for the November ballot.

8 years ago

(From left), Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., arrive at the Capitol for a procedural vote on an appropriations measure, in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
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Kavanaugh hearing a test for Sen. Cory Booker in new role

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Former President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at a memorial service for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018. McCain died Aug. 25, from brain cancer at age 81. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
National Interest

Obama, Bush, and Hemingway: McCain’s gifts to a troubled nation

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8 years ago

San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, in Seattle, in September 2016. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
Pennsylvania
Race & Ethnicity

Pennsylvania GOP official resigns over racist Facebook posts

A Pennsylvania Republican official who referred to black NFL players who kneel during the national anthem as "baboons" in a Facebook post has resigned.

8 years ago

In this April 4, 2017 file photo, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka listens at the National Press Club in Washington. Trump tweeted Monday that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka “represented his union poorly on television this weekend.” He added: “it is easy to see why unions are doing so poorly. A Dem!” Trumka appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” where he said efforts to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement should include Canada. He also said of Trump: “the things that he's done to hurt workers outpace what he's done to help workers.” (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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National

Trump attacks union leader on Labor Day

President Donald Trump started his Labor Day with an attack on a top union leader, lashing out after criticism from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

8 years ago

The U.S. Capitol is seen at dawn in Washington
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Pennsylvania

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President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in West Virginia earlier this month. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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President Trump’s description of what’s ‘fake’ is expanding

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There has been a backlog of citizen applications for years. But the backlog has increased dramatically since President Trump took office.

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International

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