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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer (L) and Upper Darby Police Superintendent Tomothy Bernhardt (R) announce charges following the shootout at the 69th Street Transportation Center. (Kenny Cooper/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Delco DA announces charges in killing and later 69th Street Terminal shootout

Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer announced murder and other charges against the gunman.

5 years ago

This Dec. 4, 2019 file photo shows Dr. Mehmet Oz at the 14th annual L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth Gala in New York. Oz is running in the 2022 Republican primary election for Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Politics & Policy

Rich? Want to be a U.S. senator? Welcome to Pennsylvania!

Introducing Carla Sands, Mehmet Oz and David McCormick, all three of whom seem prepared to spend millions of their own dollars to win a Senate seat.

5 years ago

Katie Wright, the mother of Daunte Wright, left, and his father, Arbuey Wright, right, arrive Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021 at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis for the third day of jury selection for former suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter, who says she meant to grab her Taser instead of her handgun when she shot and killed motorist Daunte Wright. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Mostly white jury seated for trial in Daunte Wright’s death

Kim Potter is charged with manslaughter in Wright’s death in April in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb.

5 years ago

N.J. Republican lawmakers defy vaccine mandate. (NJ Spotlight)
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

Watch as GOP assemblymen refuse to show vaccination records to state police

Some GOP members call the restrictions “tyranny.” Others comply. In the end all get down to business.

5 years ago

United States Military Academy graduating cadets during their graduation ceremony of the U.S. Military Academy class 2021 at Michie Stadium on Saturday, May 22, 2021, in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
Courts & Law

‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues U.S. military academies

Beyond blanket anti-discrimination policies, these federally funded institutions volunteer little about how they screen for extremist or hateful behavior.

5 years ago

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2 – State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, D-Phila., and others held a news conference today, outside of the Leon Sullivan Trust Building on North Broad Street, calling for the declaration of a state of emergency on gun violence in Philadelphia. (Photo courtesy Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta)
The Philadelphia Tribune

Kenyatta calls for state of emergency on gun violence in Philadelphia

State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta on Thursday called on Gov. Tom Wolf and Mayor Jim Kenney to declare a state of emergency in Philadelphia.

5 years ago

Voffee Jabateh poses for a photo
Community

Liberians seeking green cards face time crunch. Advocates seek deadline extension

Local members of the Liberian community and immigration attorneys say thousands of people could miss out if the Dec. 20 deadline is not extended.

5 years ago

Tyree Wallace coordinated the donation to Stephen Girard Elementary School and is the founder of MANN UP, a peer support and empowerment group. (Tyree Wallace)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Incarcerated men pool their money to buy science lab kits for South Philly first graders

Eighteen men incarcerated at SCI Phoenix said they see their donation as a small way to help disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, from the inside.

5 years ago

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MaST Charter School music teacher Kelly Knittle evaluates a French horn as she selects instruments for her students from a trove of donated instruments offered by Musicopia
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Musicopia opens its treasure trove of musical instruments to Philly teachers

The music education organization has given away thousands of instruments to schoolchildren out of its Center City storage unit.

5 years ago

Listen 1:26
Abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court
Courts & Law

Pennsylvania could become destination for abortions if Roe is overturned

At least 23 states have laws on the books that would likely ban abortions if the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade, including Ohio and West Virginia.

5 years ago

Attorney Sidney Powell, a member of President Donald Trump's legal team, speaks during a rally on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, in Alpharetta, Ga. Florida's Democratic agriculture commissioner, whose office polices charities, alleged Friday, June 18, 2021, that a group run by Powell, one of former President Donald Trump's most prominent election conspiracy adherents, is illegally seeking donations in the state. Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried said her office has filed an administrative complaint against Powell's Defending the Republic group demanding that it obey state law or cease Florida operations
Courts & Law

Lawyers allied with Trump ordered to pay $175K in sanctions

Among the nine sanctioned lawyers were Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood.

5 years ago

File photo: China's Peng Shuai serves to Japan's Nao Hibino during their first round singles match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 21, 2020. The stand the women's professional tennis tour is taking in China over concern about Grand Slam doubles champion Peng Shuai's well-being could cost the WTA millions of dollars and end up being unique among sports bodies. The International Olympic Committee is preparing to host the Winter Games in Beijing in two months and has held calls with Peng to show she is doing well — but never raised the matter of the sexual assault allegations she made against a former Chinese government official
Politics & Policy

WTA’s China stance over Peng Shuai could be unique, cost millions

No other governing body seems too eager to follow suit with the sorts of actions that would come with a real financial hit.

5 years ago

Be. Do. Love call for stories. (Courtesty of Love Now Media)
Community

Be. Do. Love: A new initiative seeks career stories inspired by love

Be. Do. Love: Career Stories Inspired by Love is a new initiative that invites professionals to share what is at the heart of the work that they do.

5 years ago

Listen 5:59
A mobile COVID-19 vaccination and booster shot site operates out of a bus on 59th Street south of Central Park as patients wait on the sidewalk, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in New York. Health officials say multiple cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York, including a man who attended an anime convention in Manhattan in late November and tested positive for the variant when he returned home to Minnesota. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Health

Multiple cases of omicron virus variant detected in New York City

The news came a day after the U.S. announced its first case of the variant had been detected in California.

5 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during his 2021 budget address
Politics & Policy

N.J. Gov. Murphy urges lawmakers to pass stricter gun control reform by Jan. 10

Though New Jersey has some of the strongest gun laws in the nation, Murphy said the state has more work to do in response to rising gun violence in cities.

5 years ago

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