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The New Yorker Radio Hour features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks in court in the Fulton county courthouse, Tuesday, July 11, 2023, in Atlanta. A grand jury being seated Tuesday in Atlanta will likely consider whether criminal charges are appropriate for former President Donald Trump or his Republican allies for their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia.
Courts & Law

A grand jury sworn in Tuesday could decide whether Trump is charged over Georgia’s 2020 election

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been investigating since shortly after Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

3 years ago

Trump speaks into a microphone. A U.S. flag is visible behind him.
Courts & Law

Trump lawyers ask judge to postpone trial without setting a date in classified documents case

Trump was charged in a 38-count indictment with conspiring to hide classified documents at Mar-a-Lago from federal investigators.

3 years ago

A sign for Tioga borough’s office.
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Rocky governance persists in tiny Pa. borough that hired Tamir Rice’s killer

A year after Tioga hired the police officer who killed Tamir Rice, borough officials who promised changes struggle with persisting issues.

3 years ago

2 passport books
Community

The wait for U.S. passports is creating travel purgatory and snarling summer plans

A much-feared backup of U.S passport applications has smashed into a wall of government bureaucracy as worldwide travel rebounds toward record pre-pandemic levels.

3 years ago

Police officers patrol
Courts & Law

Delaware to make some police misconduct records public. Reform advocates say it’s not ‘true transparency’

During the three years since George Floyd’s murder, the law enforcement lobby succeeded in eroding the initial bill’s expansive provisions.

3 years ago

People sit in rows of chairs in a room at Philadelphia's City Hall.
Community

Philly anti-violence grant program shows promising results, despite some hiccups, new evaluation shows

The report identified challenges that made it hard for some groups to complete their work — but city leaders promise to fix those problems before the next round of grants.

3 years ago

People walk across Old Main lawn on Penn State’s University Park campus in State College, Pa.
Education
Spotlight PA

Penn State, Pitt, and others get hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds. Tracking it is a challenge

Transparency into how Pennsylvania’s state-related universities spend annual appropriations is limited.

3 years ago

The Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg
Politics & Policy

How Pennsylvania has (and hasn’t) spent billions of COVID-19 stimulus dollars (FULL LIST)

Pennsylvania received $7.3 billion in state and local pandemic relief funding from the American Rescue Plan Act and had spent more than $5.6 billion as of March.

3 years ago

A man scans a mail ballot.
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law is upheld again, as court rules against Republican challenge

It is the latest of several refusals by a state court to invalidate Pennsylvania's 2019 mail-in voting law, enacted barely months before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

3 years ago

A view of the U.S. Supreme Court building on a sunny day.
Courts & Law

Supreme Court upholds North Carolina ruling that congressional districts violated state law

The Supreme Court has ruled that North Carolina’s top court did not overstep its bounds in striking down a congressional districting plan as excessively partisan under state l

3 years ago

Trump is visible in front of a U.S. flag.
Courts & Law

Audio captures Trump discussing ‘highly confidential’ documents

The recording, from a July 2021 interview Trump gave at his Bedminster, New Jersey, is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump.

3 years ago

In a photo from the Papers of J. Hartley Bowen Jr. at the Science History Museum, workers load a barrel of contaminated waste into a B-17 aircraft. (The Papers of J. Hartley Bowen Jr. at the Science History Museum)
The Pulse
Science

A secret mission to dump radioactive cargo in Atlantic Ocean tells history of nuclear tests

Answer to decades-long mystery uncovered in the archive at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.

3 years ago

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President Biden gives his State of the Union speech.
NPR
Politics & Policy

House opens impeachment probe of Biden after GOP leaders head off push to vote now

The House of Representatives approved a resolution referring articles of impeachment against President Biden to two committees — slowing down a push from House conservatives.

3 years ago

Hunter Biden
Courts & Law

Hunter Biden federal court date set in Wilmington on tax dodging, firearm charges

Prosecutors said the president’s son will admit to failing to pay more than $200,000 in federal income taxes, and to having a .38 Special while addicted to drugs.

3 years ago

Mayor Kenney posing for a group photo with other city leaders.
Politics & Policy

Philadelphia unveils Racial Equity Strategy Dashboard; city departments required to complete racial equity plans by end of year

So far, 23 departments have completed their initial racial equity action plans. All departments will need to complete theirs by the end of the year.

3 years ago

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