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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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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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Police suspend search for teen swimmer caught in rip current off Ocean City

The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a 14-year-old boy who was swept out to sea by an undercurrent while swimming with friends of ...

12 years ago

Pa. Senate barely passes GOP’s patchwork $29.1 billion budget

A partisan $29.1 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that’s a few hours away has the Pennsylvania state Senate’s narrow ...

12 years ago

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Deadline looms over Delaware lawmakers

Today is the last day for Delaware lawmakers to pass legislation before the end of the 147th General Assembly’s two-year session. < ...

12 years ago

 Malala Yousafzai, shown in this 2013 file photo,will become the youngest person to receive the National Constitution Center's Liberty Medal. (Jessica Rinaldi/AP photo)
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Girl shot by Taliban will receive Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal

The National Constitution Center will present its Liberty Medal to a 17-year-old girl from Pakistan who survived an attack from the Talib ...

12 years ago

 Customers leave a Hobby Lobby store in Oklahoma City. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that employers can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women. (Sue Ogrocki/AP Photo)

U.S. Supreme Court favors Pa. company, Hobby Lobby on contraceptives case

In a 5-to-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Pennsylvania cabinetmaking business, who ...

12 years ago

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 This is an aerial view of Atlantic City, N.J., with the famed boardwalk and beach in the foreground, on August 24, 1967. Seen on the left are the facilities of the Convention Hall, in the background is the new 70-mile-per-hour Atlantic City Expressway, which leads right into the heart of the city. (AP Photo)
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Bidders for Philadelphia casino license undeterred by Atlantic City downturn

When the Showboat Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City announced plans to close last week, analysts chalked it up to a saturated gaming mark ...

12 years ago

GM settlement proposal not sitting well with one Philly attorney

A plan by General Motors to compensate those who had ignition rotation problems led to accidents fall short, according to one Philadelphi ...

12 years ago

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 The disturbance off the southeastern US coast Monday afternoon that is expected to impact the area later in the week. (Image: NOAA)
Down the Shore

Forecasters: Variety of impacts possible Wednesday through Friday

The interaction between a series of cold frontal boundaries and a disturbance that is likely to become a tropical system is expected to d ...

12 years ago

Keystone Crossroads

Report says STEM jobs increasingly hard to fill

A ...

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 The brutal crimes were committed near the 14th District police station and Germantown Town Hall. (NewsWorks, file art)

Small-time drug debt allegedly leads to brutal assault, rape near Germantown police precinct

Choking back tears, the Germantown woman recalled how her living room was covered in blood. Brandon Schweitzer, her boyfriend of f ...

12 years ago

 DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg and Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian addressed a lunchtime audience of about 50 entrepreneurs in December at First Round Capital in University City. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks, file)

Millennials to Boomers: Stay out of our way, and let us get this

Millennials. Generation Y. Whatever you want to call us, we’re the generation that seems to be on the cusp of reaching adulthood wi ...

12 years ago

Relax, Baby Boomers: The Millennials are all right — and so are you

Every prior generation loves to bemoan the next — coming up with reasons that they will run the country into the ground and cannot be s ...

12 years ago

 Students check in as they arrive at a new high school called The LINC, which stands for Learning in New Contexts in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Pa Gov. Corbett: ain’t too proud to beg

Vote-trading is an old and time-honored tradition in Congress, state legislatures, town councils and probably student councils. Read Robe ...

12 years ago

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2014 New Jersey fireworks shore guide (Updated with cancellations)

When it comes to Independence Day, the pursuit of happiness is how we Americans tend to mark the occasion. And from bombastic pyrotechnic ...

12 years ago

New Jersey may delay using tests to judge teachers

New Jersey lawmakers propose delaying using new standardized tests as part of their teachers’ and principals’ evaluations. ...

12 years ago

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