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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Politics

Former President Barack Obama (right) and artist Kehinde Wiley unveil his portrait during a ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Behind the Obama portraits: 2 artists put their own spin on a presidential tradition

Long before the official unveiling of the Obama's portraits, the artists who painted them began working on details like Michelle's dress and Barack's background tableau.

8 years ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. (Ronen Zvulun, Pool via AP)
Courts & Law

Reports: Police recommend indictments of Netanyahu

For months police have been investigating two cases. Netanyahu has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

8 years ago

Phil Murphy speaks to supporters at the Asbury Park Convention Hall
Courts & Law

Criminal justice advocates praise Murphy’s revival of N.J. sentencing commission

The commission was formed in 2009, but never gained traction in a state with a 12-to-1 black-white disparity in its incarceration rate.

8 years ago

The public housing project the Farragut Houses in Brooklyn, New York. The budget blueprint President Donald Trump released Thursday calls for the cutting of billions of dollars in funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

White House budget calls for deep cuts to HUD

The White House budget is non-binding but carries weight as a statement of the president's spending priorities.

8 years ago

A voter fills out his ballot on election day (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Ballot access eased for third-party, independent candidates in Pa.

Third-party and independent candidates will have an easier time running for office in Pennsylvania following settlement of a longstanding federal lawsuit.

8 years ago

This Tuesday, July 25, 2017 photo shows the rail interlocking and trans-Hudson tunnels at New York's Penn Station. Disabled trains in the tunnels under the Hudson and East rivers regularly cause delays that can ripple up and down the northeastern U.S. and Amtrak says because of safety protocols, even during off-peak times a disabled train causes a minimum delay of 45 minutes to an hour. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)
Money

Northeast Corridor tunnel backers feel shorted by Trump plan

Proponents of a $13 billion project to build a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey are panning President Donald Trump's infrastructure proposal.

8 years ago

Donal Trump Jr., wife Vanessa Trump, and their children walk out together after attending church service at St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Police: Donald Trump Jr.’s wife exposed to white powder

A police department spokesman says a preliminary test of the powder indicated it wasn't dangerous.

8 years ago

In this image from video made available by NASA, astronaut Joe Acaba performs a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. (NASA via AP)
Money

Trump wants NASA out of space station by 2025, private businesses in

Under President Donald Trump's 2019 proposed budget released Monday, U.S. government funding for the space station would end by 2025.

8 years ago

Rotting corpses of a woman and child at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Monrovia, known as the Lutheran Church Massacre. Decomposing a long with those of hundreds of refugees massacred by soldiers of slain President Samuel Doe on July 30. This photography was taken mid October 1990. (Mark Huband/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law

Delaware County man accused of lying to cover war crimes in Liberia

A civil suit claims a Sharon Hill man orchestrated the slaughter of 600 civilians during civil war in the African country.

8 years ago

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File photo: New Jersey State Capitol building in Trenton. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
Education

New Jersey may begin offering college financial aid for DACA students

There are more than 22,000 DACA participants in New Jersey, the ninth highest number of the so-called Dreamers in the country.

8 years ago

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., walks to the Senate chamber, at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Washington.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

What’s in the new budget deal?

Congress passed a  large-scale budget deal on Friday morning that raised the government’s spending limit by $300 billion for the next ...

Air Date: February 12, 2018

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Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati. (AP file Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

State government standoff: Pennsylvania’s ‘constitutional crisis’ over court’s redistricting decision

Friday is the court-imposed deadline for the Pennsylvania legislature to agree on a new ...

8 years ago

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Pennsylvania state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pa.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. legislature will miss redistricting deadline, but negotiations may continue

Republican leaders in Pennsylvania’s House and Senate said Thursday evening it is impossible for them to pass a new congressional map before the state Supreme Court’s Friday.

8 years ago

A map of the 7th congressional district as drawn in 2011. The district incorporates most of Delaware County and portions of Chester, Montgomery, Berks and Lancaster Counties. (Dan Gleiter/pennlive.com)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa. Supreme Court details violation of voter rights in full opinion striking down congressional map

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that the state’s congressional district map deprives voters’ of their right to “free and equal” elections.

8 years ago

This photo provided by the White House shows President Barack Obama meeting with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan, Thursday, May 6, 2010,  in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington.  (Pete Souza, White House/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

White House photographer shares 8-year chronicle of Obama presidency

From ceremonial moments to candid interactions with family, the photographs document the daily life of President Barack Obama.

8 years ago

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