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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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Daniel Penny in handcuffs
Courts & Law

Grand jury indicts Daniel Penny in chokehold death of New York City subway rider Jordan Neely

If convicted, Penny could face years in prison.

3 years ago

slot machines at a casino
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Pa. lawmakers ask for investigations after gaming regulators met privately with casino lobbyists

Lobbyists for Parx Casino embarked on an intense, behind-the-scenes effort to get the Gaming Control Board to abandon its hands-off stance toward a major competitor.

3 years ago

Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing hearing
Courts & Law

Bill Cosby sued by 9 more women in Nevada for alleged decades-old sexual assaults

A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Nevada alleges that the women were individually drugged and assaulted between approximately 1979 and 1992.

3 years ago

The Juneteenth Singers performing
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Juneteenth celebrations, Doylestown Pride Fest, Billy Joel & Stevie Nicks, and Yacht Rock Revue in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

June 15 -19: Juneteenth celebrations, “I Hate Hamlet” in N.J., and Keb’ ‘Mo in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

3 years ago

Listen 5:35
Anthony Cruz (back row, second student with hard hat from right), stands behind a solar panel with his classmates.
Education

Philly teens learned to install solar panels. Then asbestos closed their school

The celebrated Bright Solar Futures program went on, but without its key hands-on element.

3 years ago

Listen 3:35
A view of an Italian flag waving in the wind with blue sky visible in the background.
Community

St. Anthony’s Italian Festival in Wilmington: A 49-year-old tradition that honors Italian culture and draws thousands of visitors

Wilmington's Little Italy is celebrating almost 50 years of honoring Italian heritage and culture.

3 years ago

Harvard Medical School
Courts & Law

Former Harvard morgue manager stole brains, skin and other body parts to sell them, indictment says

They say 55-year-old Cedric Lodge stole dissected portions of cadavers that were donated to the Harvard Medical School from 2018 to early 2023.

3 years ago

Sign for Tiffany Fletcher Rec Center
Community

Mill Creek Recreation Center renamed in honor of Parks & Rec employee killed at work

The Tiffany Fletcher Recreational Center, formerly Mill Creek, will receive ADA improvements, a computer lab, and a mural depicting the late Parks & Rec employee.

3 years ago

Listen 1:00
New public space on a city corner.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

New plaza caps a 10-year effort to reignite a struggling corner of downtown Philly

Jefferson Plaza is part of the block-long East Market development near City Hall.

3 years ago

Roger Payne attends the Raw for the Oceans Spring/Summer 2015 collection show presented by G-Star RAW and Bionic during Fashion Week on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014 in New York
Science

Roger Payne, scientist who discovered whales can sing, dies at 88

Payne saw the discovery of whale song as a chance to spur interest in saving the giant animals, who were disappearing from the planet.

3 years ago

The Starbucks sign is displayed in the window of a Pittsburgh Starbucks, Jan. 30, 2023.
Courts & Law

Ex-Starbucks manager awarded $25.6 million in suit over firing after 2018 arrests of 2 Black men

Jurors in Camden found on Monday that race was a determinative factor in the company’s firing of Shannon Phillips.

3 years ago

Columbia University class of 2020 graduates pose for photographs on Commencement Day on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, in New York.
Money

It’s almost time to resume student loan payments. Not doing so could cost you

More than 40 million Americans will have to start making federal student loan payments again at the end of the summer.

3 years ago

The ChatGPT app
Science

How Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate AI

Lawmakers in Europe have signed off on the world’s first set of comprehensive rules for artificial intelligence.

3 years ago

Illuminated trees behind the main Philadelphia Zoo entrance sign.
Community

Philadelphia Zoo: Accidental deaths of 5 meerkats apparently caused by poisoning linked to dye

Zoo officials say the recent, sudden deaths of all five of their meerkats were apparently caused by an accidental poisoning linked to a dye that is used to mark the animals.

3 years ago

SZA and Lizzo side by side
Arts & Entertainment
6abc

SZA, Lizzo headlining 2023 Made in America festival in Philly

The two-day festival will take place on the Ben Franklin Parkway on Sept. 2 and 3.

3 years ago

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