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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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Community

‘Doubling in size’: Upper Darby’s Pride festival is back for year two

Last year’s event was a success for the organizers. This year, it is doubling in size. Next year? It has big plans of transitioning into Delaware County Pride.

4 years ago

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Community

Montco NRA to host a fundraising event less than a mile away from a school

The sold-out event celebrates 30 years since the founding of the NRA’s fundraising arm.

4 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment
6abc

Philadelphia Jeopardy! champ wins 14th game despite getting beat on Phillies clue

The Philadelphia rideshare driver who fosters baby kittens kicked off the "Ballpark Fun" category Wednesday night for $400.

4 years ago

File photo: The Tulsa, Okla. skyline is pictured Friday, June 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Community

4 killed in shooting at Tulsa medical building; shooter dead

Tulsa police Capt. Richard Meulenberg said Wednesday the shooter also was dead and that multiple people were wounded.

4 years ago

Members of the Brazilian performance group Project Capoeira are seen in motion
Community

Philadelphia kicks off Immigrant Heritage Month

Philadelphia hopes a $75,000 grant will support families fleeing Afghanistan, Ukraine and Haiti.

4 years ago

Infant formula is stacked on a table during a baby formula drive to help with the shortage Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Politics & Policy

Wolf invests $1.7 million in Central Pa. baby formula manufacturer

Pennsylvania lawmakers hope to address baby formula shortage with a $1.7 investment in a new manufacturer in Reading, Pa.

4 years ago

File photo: Jada Pinkett Smith, left, and Will Smith hold hands in the audience at the Oscars in Los Angeles on March 27, 2022. Will Smith stunned the audience of the 94th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday when he walked onstage and slapped comedian Chris Rock over a joke the presenter made about his wife. Pinkett Smith turned her husband’s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment on “Red Table Talk,” her Facebook Watch show on June 1. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
Arts & Entertainment

Pinkett Smith talks hair-loss ‘shame,’ outcome of Oscar slap

Pinkett Smith said she hopes the two men can “heal, talk this out, and reconcile.”

4 years ago

Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff visit a memorial near the site of the Buffalo supermarket shooting after attending a memorial service for Ruth Whitfield, one of the victims of the shooting, Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Courts & Law

Jury indicts Buffalo shooting suspect on terrorism charge

The suspect had previously been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting, which also injured three people. He has pleaded not guilty.

4 years ago

Richard Michetti outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a photo submitted by the FBI to the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. (FBI)
Courts & Law

Delco man pleads guilty to felony charge in riot at U.S. Capitol

A suburban Philadelphia man charged in the January 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol after he was turned in by an ex-girlfriend after reportedly insulting her intelligence.

4 years ago

The Pennsylvania Judicial Center in Harrisburg
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

Pennsylvania’s highest court could give cities the go-ahead to craft their own gun laws

Three distinct suits are being appealed to the state’s highest court, all arguing that cities and municipalities in Pennsylvania should be allowed to pass their own gun laws.

4 years ago

Supporters of Amazon workers gather outside a warehouse in Bellmawr
Community

Bellmawr Amazon workers walk off the job in protest of facility transfers

Workers say they were told most of them would be transferred to Amazon’s West Deptford facility, but many are being sent to facilities much further away.

4 years ago

Kathy McGuiness headshot
Courts & Law

About-face in Delaware auditor’s trial: Prosecutors seek change of venue to Kent County

The judge had indicated that the state risked triggering double jeopardy if they tried the case in New Castle County.

4 years ago

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Community

Sarah Glover to lead WHYY’s radio, TV, and digital news operations

Glover is currently the managing editor of Minnesota Public Radio’s MPR News.

4 years ago

Incinerators are one of the uses that would come under enhanced DEP permitting scrutiny. (Massachusetts DEP via Creative Commons CC BY 2.0)
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

N.J. DEP spells out new permitting standards for ‘overburdened communities’

Two years after the governor signed it, specifics are coming into view on how environmental-justice law will be applied.

4 years ago

Pedestrians walk past Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Courts & Law

Lawsuit alleges security failures in murder of nursing assistant at Jefferson University Hospital

The alleged gunman Stacey Hayes is accused of walking into the hospital and killing nursing assistant Anrae James.

4 years ago

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