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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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President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Jan 25, 2019, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump, Congress strike short-term deal to reopen government

Three people familiar with the negotiations on Capitol Hill said the deal would restore money for the shuttered agencies for three weeks, while negotiations continue.

7 years ago

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said the country's leaders should be focused on federal workers affected by the shutdown and not
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Politics & Policy

HUD Secretary Carson: Leaders need to ‘take your ego out of it’ and end shutdown

A HUD spokesperson said Carson is referring to Congressional leaders, which would include Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

7 years ago

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2018, file photo, Roger Stone speaks at the American Priority Conference in Washington Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018.  (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Politics & Policy

Trump associate Roger Stone arrested, faces obstruction charge

Stone has been under scrutiny for months but has maintained his innocence.

7 years ago

In this file photo, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former attorney, steps out of a cab during his arrival on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to comply with Senate subpoena

The Senate committee did not immediately confirm the subpoena. It ordinarily holds its Russia-related hearings in private.

7 years ago

In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 photo, Brendan Shaughnessy, (left), with the Nuclear Issues Study Group, protests with other activists ahead of a meeting of a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission panel in Albuquerque, N.M. (Susan Montoya Bryan/AP Photo)
Money

Holtec defends plans for nuclear waste storage facility

A New Jersey-based company is defending plans to build a multibillion-dollar facility in the New Mexico desert to store spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.

7 years ago

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said he didn't understand why furloughed federal workers, or those working without pay, might struggle or need to visit food banks. Democrats called him out of touch.
(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
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Politics & Policy

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross downplayed shutdown hardships. Dems raged

Ross told CNBC he is puzzled by reports of federal workers turning to food banks and other forms of relief.

7 years ago

Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of N.Y., flanked by Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., (left), and Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-Conn., (right), speaks to reporters about the partial government shutdown following a Democratic strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Dems prepare own border security package shunning Trump wall

House Democrats are preparing a package that would ignore Trump's demand for a wall and instead pay for other ideas aimed at protecting the border.

7 years ago

A TSA employee visits a Baltimore food pantry for government workers affected by the federal shutdown. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
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Politics & Policy

Trump: Short-term deal to end shutdown OK if it has ‘prorated down payment’ on wall

The president said he's open to whatever results from the discussions between McConnell and Schumer, but Trump would not commit beyond a broad statement.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks during a healthcare roundtable in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, in Washington; Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., responds to reporters after officially postponing President Donald Trump's State of the Union address until the government is fully reopened, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019.  (Jacquelyn Martin and J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photos)
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Politics & Policy

Trump defers to Pelosi and delays State of the Union Address

The staring contest over the State of the Union address between President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a week old, and no one is blinking yet.

7 years ago

The chairman of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service says the panel's overarching goal is to
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Politics & Policy

Should public service be required of young Americans?

A federal panel says it is considering how the nation could implement a universal service program and whether it should be mandatory or optional.

7 years ago

A police car sits at the entrance to Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., Saturday, Jan 19, 2019. A diocese in Kentucky apologized Saturday after videos emerged showing students from the Catholic boys' high school mocking Native Americans outside the Lincoln Memorial on Friday after a rally in Washington. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
Community

Boys school shuts down amid fallout over Washington videos

Longer videos from wider perspectives emerged later over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend.

7 years ago

Police office guards the main entrance to the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018 (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Supreme Court returns to gun rights for 1st time in 9 years

The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up its first gun rights case in nine years, a challenge to New York City's prohibition.

7 years ago

Left: Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Right: Sen. Pat Toomey R-Pa. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo, File)
Politics & Policy

Philly region members of Congress losing patience with shutdown

President Trump’s offer on Saturday doesn’t appear to be helping break the budget impasse that shut much of the federal government.

7 years ago

The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta is open for the first time in nearly a month, after a grant from the Delta Air Lines Foundation made up for the lack of federal funds from the partial government shutdown.
(Jeff Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images)
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Community

Martin Luther King Jr. National Park reopens for holiday, thanks to a private grant

The deal allows the park to avoid the awkward possibility that it would be closed on the federal holiday honoring King.

7 years ago

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at Vote For Justice: An Evening of Empowerment with activists and artists at the Newseum in May 2018. (Paul Morigi/AP)
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Politics & Policy

Sen. Kamala Harris announces 2020 presidential candidacy

The 54-year-old Harris has been seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party even before she won a Senate seat in 2016.

7 years ago

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