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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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Community

‘Significant increase’ in Philly’s domestic violence, especially involving guns

Domestic assaults with guns have almost doubled over the last five years. Philadelphia City Council heard from victims and others about how to work on the issue.

4 years ago

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Politics & Policy

Recreational marijuana bill defeated in Delaware House

Another year, another defeat for recreational marijuana. House lawmakers were unable to get the needed votes to advance the legalization measure.

4 years ago

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Education

Rowan University launches public policy center named for Steve Sweeney

The new Steve Sweeney Center for Public Policy at Rowan University is billed as bringing pragmatic solutions to New Jersey issues.

4 years ago

Washington D.C. March 9th 2022. Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaking during an interview with NPR in his office at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C. Attorney General Garland has been the 86th United States attorney general since March 2021. (Photo by Eman Mohammed for NPR)
NPR
Courts & Law

Garland says the Jan. 6 investigation won’t end until everyone is held to account

On his first anniversary as attorney general, Merrick Garland said he's committed to unraveling the conspiracy behind the storming of the U.S. Capitol.

4 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads
Education

New bill sets 2025 deadline to give Philly public school students more access to filtered drinking water

The legislation, if passed, aims to speed up the process of installing filtering hydration stations, but doesn’t earmark funds to help pay for them.

4 years ago

Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., center, holds a news conference to announce a bipartisan update to the Violence Against Women Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. He is joined by, from left, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Violence Against Women Act reauthorization is added to a $1.5 trillion spending bill

A reauthorization of the landmark 1994 law is included in an annual federal spending package moving through Congress.

4 years ago

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Politics & Policy

Texas flagged 27,000 mail ballots for rejection in primary

The preliminary figures provide the latest picture of how new election rules rushed into place by Republicans made it harder to vote for thousands of voters in both parties.

4 years ago

Standing in front of the flags of New Jersey, and Ukraine, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during his budget address in Trenton, N.J., Tuesday, March 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Politics & Policy

Murphy signs law prohibiting N.J. business dealings with Russia’s government

The law allows the state to create a list of New Jersey businesses that do business with the Russian and Belarusian governments.

4 years ago

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, of Calif., speaks to the media, Thursday, March 3, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Politics & Policy

Dems set for House approval of Ukraine aid, drop COVID funds

The money covers the U.S. costs of sending troops and weapons to Eastern Europe and equipping allied forces there in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.

4 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during his budget address in Trenton, N.J., Tuesday, March 8, 2022. New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has proposed a $48.9 billion budget that boosts K-12 funding, makes a full public pension payment for the second straight year, redistributes nearly $1 billion in property tax relief and raises overall spending by about 5% over last year’s plan. Murphy unveiled the proposal during a speech Tuesday in the Assembly chamber, the first time since 2020 and the COVID-19 outbreak
Politics & Policy

Murphy supports ban on state business dealings with Russia, announces property tax relief program during annual budget address

In his first in-person budget address in two years, Murphy touted a growing economy and announced a new property tax relief program.

4 years ago

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Courts & Law

Proud Boys leader charged with conspiracy in Capitol riot

Henry “Enrique” Tarrio wasn’t there when the riot erupted on Jan. 6, 2021. That's because police had arrested Tarrio in Washington two days before the riot.

4 years ago

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Politics & Policy

EPA rule would make heavy trucks cut smog, soot pollution

The proposal would require the industry to cut smog-and-soot-forming nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 90% per truck over current standards by 2031.

4 years ago

In this April 28, 2011, photo, an Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan. The House just passed legislation that may dramatically boost health care services and disability benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Simon Klingert, File)
Radio Times

The Regional Roundup – March 7th

House passes bill for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. Amtrak engineer found not guilty. And, once-critically endangered bald eagles are being tested for lead poisoning.

Air Date: March 7, 2022 10:00 am

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President Joe Biden signs the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 into law on Thursday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

It’s a cliché to call an election-year Congress do-nothing. The history doesn’t match

There's no law against making laws in an election year. There are special challenges, to be sure, but the hurdles may loom larger in lore than in reality.

4 years ago

In this photo, Feb. 27, 2022, taken from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP, File)
Politics & Policy

Zelenskyy’s ‘desperate’ plea to Congress: Send more planes

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with some 300 members of Congress and their staffs in an hourlong private video call on Saturday.

4 years ago

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