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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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Courts & Law

In this Aug. 1, 2018, file photo, Cody Wilson, with Defense Distributed, holds a 3D-printed gun called the Liberator at his shop in Austin, Texas. A federal judge in Seattle heard arguments Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, on whether to block a settlement the U.S. State Department reached with a company that wants to post blueprints for printing 3D weapons on the internet. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
Public Safety
Technology

States aim to stop internet release of 3D-printed gun plans

A federal judge said Tuesday the issue should be decided by the president or Congress.

7 years ago

The Camden County Police mobile command sets up on Broadway near Mount Vernon Street in Camden, where two detectives were shot. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
New Jersey
Policing

All 3 suspects wanted in ambush shooting of police arrested

The remaining two men sought in connection with the ambush shooting of two New Jersey police detectives earlier this month have been arrested.

7 years ago

Rapper Meek Mill comes out to ring a Liberty Bell replica before the first half in Game 5 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series between the Miami Heat and the Philadelphia 76ers, Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Court won’t remove judge, tells Meek Mill to appeal ruling

The court said Tuesday Mill's attorneys must go through the regular process of appealing Judge Genece Brinkley's decision, despite their argument she'd been biased.

7 years ago

This courtroom sketch shows spectators waiting the the courtroom as the jury continues to deliberate in the bank fraud and tax evasion trial of Paul Manafort behind the closed door, at back left, in the courtroom of U.S. District court Judge T.S. Ellis III at federal court in Alexandria, Va., Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)
National

Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of 8 charges

The jury says it's reached a verdict on eight counts but is undecided on the remaining 10.

7 years ago

Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building, in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)
National
Politics

AP sources: Cohen pleading to bank, campaign finance fraud

Michael Cohen will plead guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud, bank fraud and tax evasion.

7 years ago

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, meets with Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in her office, before a private meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)
Home & Family
Politics

Kavanaugh tells senator Roe v. Wade is settled law

Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine held a two-hour meeting with Kavanaugh in her office that she called "very informative."

7 years ago

Protesters gathered in the Capitol to call on Wolf for further action. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Immigration
Pennsylvania

Activists renew call to shut down Berks immigrant detention center

Pennsylvania DHS already declined to renew the center's federal license, but a federal judge ordered it reinstated.

7 years ago

Parishioners receive communion at Holy Infancy Roman Catholic in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, part of the Allentown Diocese. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Religion

Allentown priest charged with sexual assault of high school student

Updated: 3:59 p.m. Lehigh County prosecutors have charged a catholic priest from the Allentown Diocese with assa ...

7 years ago

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The dome of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. (AP File Photo)
Philadelphia
Religion

2 Philadelphia priests, 1 accused of sex abuse, found unfit for ministry

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has found two priests unsuitable for the ministry

7 years ago

The federal government has shut down Backpage.com,  but it retains its
Criminal Justice
Delaware

Delaware attorney general will seek to dissolve Backpage.com

The company that advertised prostitution has been shut down by the government, but its status as a limited liability company remains in 'good standing' in Delaware.

7 years ago

Listen 2:06
Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Pennsylvania

Cash assistance program for Pennsylvania’s poor returns this fall

A form of welfare, the mandated program provided $205 a month to people with no other income.

7 years ago

Camden Police Chief John Thomson asks for the public's help in finding the men wanted in connection with the shooting of two undercover detectives. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
New Jersey
Policing

Police arrest 1 of 3 men charged in ambush shooting of Camden police detectives

Police said Saturday night that they arrested Juan Figueroa without incident in Gloucester City, N.J.

7 years ago

FILE - In this Thursday, July 1, 2010, file photo, Bill Hybels, then-senior pastor of the megachurch Willow Creek Community Church located in Northwest-suburban Chicago, speaks in Washington. It was announced, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., that lead pastor Heather Larson is stepping down, and the entire Board of Elders will do so by the end of the year. Larson said the church needed new leadership in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against church founder Hybels. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Religion
Sex & Relationships
Social Justice

Evangelicals confront sex abuse problems in #MeToo era

The victims are coming forward to expose abuse in the Protestant evangelical world where some say the misdeeds have been just as pervasive as the acts by Catholic clergy.

7 years ago

Camden Police Chief John Thomson asks for the public's help in finding three men wanted in connection with the shooting of two undercover detectives.
Criminal Justice
New Jersey
Policing

Three men face charges in ambush shooting of Camden police detectives

Still at large, the suspects are considered to be extremely dangerous, police say

7 years ago

This screen grab from an advertisement from the group Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware has been part of a marketing blitz to keep the company intact. (YouTube)
Business
Delaware

TransPerfect leaves Delaware as corporate home, citing Chancery Court dispute

Following a lengthy court battle over the court-ordered sale of the company, the multimillion-dollar language services company has moved its corporate home to Nevada.

7 years ago

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