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Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.

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Health
Spotlight PA

Pennsylvania is now streaming its daily coronavirus briefings with Spanish captions

The Wolf administration added Spanish captions to a web stream of its daily coronavirus briefing Friday.

6 years ago

The York County Prison is where most immigration detainees in Pennsylvania are held after ICE arrests. (Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Health

Immigrant detainees stage hunger strike at York County Prison

Up to 180 people held by federal authorities are refusing to eat in protest of what they say are insufficient precautions against the coronavirus.

6 years ago

In this file photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter a restaurant to remove evidence. (David Duprey/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Amid coronavirus threat, feds release two immigrant detainees in Pa.

Crowded conditions in immigration detention could spread coronavirus. The lack of social distancing is compounded by limited access to soap, according to an ACLU complaint.

6 years ago

Berks County Residential Center. Oct. 6, 2016. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Lawsuit: ICE family detention in Pa. is a ‘tinderbox’ due to COVID-19

According to immigration attorneys, conditions in family detention centers create “a crisis that threatens the lives of women, men and children.”

6 years ago

Berks County Residential Center. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

‘Extraordinary times’: Advocates call for closure of immigrant detention centers for coronavirus

“Folks are basically saying, ‘If this is the way I’m going to die, I’d rather be with my family,’” said one advocate.

6 years ago

Suyapa Reyes and her four children have lived in sanctuary at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown since September 2018. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

One of three sanctuary families in Pa. walks free with approval from feds

Suyapa Reyes and her four children spent 18 months living on the second floor of a church before being given notice that they would be free from arrest or deportation.

6 years ago

Clothing hangs to dry at a makeshift migrant camp for asylum seekers in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, on earlier this month. About 60,000 migrants live in filthy and dangerous conditions as they await their day in U.S. immigration court. (Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

U.S. Supreme Court allows ‘Remain in Mexico’ program to continue

The court will allow the White House's "Remain in Mexico" policy to stand across the entire southern border. The decision marks another immigration victory for Trump.

6 years ago

Demonstrators rally in Washington, D.C., in April 2019 against the now-blocked citizenship question that the Trump administration tried and failed to get on the 2020 census forms. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

10 census facts that bust common myths about the 2020 U.S. head count

It happens only once a decade, so it can be hard to make sense of the census. NPR's census reporter has rounded up facts that debunk some of the most common misconceptions.

6 years ago

Stephanie Sun and Sarun Chan co-facilitated the Census Champion workshop at the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia on Saturday. (Becca Haydu for WHYY)
Community

Counting Philly’s Cambodians in the 2020 census: ‘We aren’t invisible’

Philadelphia has the 4th largest Cambodian population among U.S. cities, and a local organization says the 2010 count was low by several thousand.

6 years ago

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, left, speaks during a roundtable talks on sanctuary cities hosted by President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, in Washington, Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Other attendees are, from back center left, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan and Mary Ann Mendoza. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Courts & Law

Court sides with Trump in ‘sanctuary cities’ grant fight

The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement

6 years ago

Fredy Garcia Morales and his mom Margarita talk to his sisters on the phone while sitting in the King Street Ministry Center in Chambersburg, Pa. (Jeffrey Stockbridge for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Speaking Mam in MAGA country: Immigration, education and the teenage boy in the middle

Where low-wage immigrant labor undergirds the local economy, stress is put on other institutions — especially public schools, which face a mandate to educate all.

6 years ago

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ICE officials
Courts & Law

ACLU sues over Jim Thorpe traffic stop, saying it was racially motivated

The ACLU’s client was detained, then placed in ICE custody.

6 years ago

Edwin Obispo, who came here from Honduras, works rehabbing houses in the Philadelphia area and hopes he gets to stay in the United States. He says Ana Molina swindled $5,750 from him. (Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Why
Courts & Law

Immigrants in Philly being scammed, despite strict local law

Philly has one of the country's strongest laws to protect immigrants from being scammed by fake legal help. So why are complaints of fraud on the rise?

Air Date: February 20, 2020

Listen 17:08
People stand on stage during setup for the Nevada Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Democrats debate in Las Vegas

We discuss last night's Democratic debate in Las Vegas and how the six candidates fared just days before the Nevada caucuses.

Air Date: February 20, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:13
Haverford College in Haverford, Pa., Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Education

Trump administration wants time limits on student visas

There is no set time limit for how long students who come to the U.S. for college can stay. The Trump administration says that is a problem.

6 years ago

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