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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

Protesters rally at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office at 8th and Cherry streets after a rally in Philadelphia on June 30. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Immigration

ICE contracts with local governments can be ended quickly

Typically, all it takes is 30 to 120 days notice to terminate these agreements. ICE's contract with Philadelphia can be called off with just 30 days notice.

7 years ago

Actor and comedian Bill Cosby reacts while being notified that the verdict was in during his sexual assault retrial, Thursday, April, 26, 2018, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)
Public Safety

Board recommends Bill Cosby be found a sexually violent predator

Cosby is scheduled for sentencing Sept. 24. A message was left with his lawyer.

7 years ago

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New Jersey

New Jersey puts temporary hold on marijuana cases

New Jersey's attorney general has announced an immediate adjournment of all marijuana cases in municipal courts statewide.

7 years ago

Mike Groll/AP
Down the Shore
Criminal Justice
New Jersey

Sandy relief worker allegedly sought bribes, fees from storm victims

To date, New Jersey has charged 220 people with Sandy-related fraud and recovered more than $2 million.

7 years ago

In this Dec. 4, 2014, file photo protesters rally in New York's Foley Square against a state grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner. (Jason DeCrow/AP Photo, File)
Policing
Public Safety
Social Justice

NYPD officer faces police charges in Eric Garner’s chokehold death

The officials had been waiting to see whether federal prosecutors would bring criminal charges but decided to move forward.

7 years ago

Jamie Lawson. (Image courtesy of the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office)
Down the Shore
Criminal Justice
New Jersey

Superstorm Sandy contractor gets 10-year prison term

A contractor convicted of scamming dozens of New Jersey homeowners out of nearly $2 million following Superstorm Sandy has been sentenced ...

7 years ago

In this April 26, 2018 file photo, Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo, File)
Politics

Trump was taped talking of paying for Playboy model’s story

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer secretly recorded Trump discussing a potential payment for a former Playboy model's account of having an affair with him.

7 years ago

Women demonstrate during a pro-choice rally, Tuesday, July 10, 2018, in New York. Many Democrats and abortion-rights supporters believe a new conservative justice could tilt the court in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Radio Times
Health Care
Politics

Abortion Access: Before Roe and Now

Guests: Elizabeth Nash, Amelia Bonow, Gillian Frank Abortion access in America might be undergoing some changes s ...

Air Date: July 20, 2018 10:00 am

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Seaside Heighs boardwalk (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

N.J. investigators: Some boardwalk games are unfair

An annual summer inspection of games at New Jersey’s boardwalks has found that some are allegedly unfair to patrons. The sta ...

7 years ago

Rashaun
Criminal Justice
New Jersey

‘No one has to die:’ Vineland officer on body cam video before killing unarmed black man

Footage of the 28-minute encounter with police shows a Vineland officer pointing what appears to be a semiautomatic rifle at Rashaun Washington and imploring him to relax.

7 years ago

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Candles, balloons  and plastic flowers mark the spot where an unarmed man was shot dead by police in Vineland, New Jersey. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Addiction
Home & Family

Witness: Vineland police shot and killed unarmed black man ‘like he wasn’t human’

Residents of Vineland, New Jersey are demanding answers from authorities after police shot and killed an unarmed black man over the weeke ...

7 years ago

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Gurbir Grewal, the former Bergen County prosecutor, has been confirmed as New Jersey's attorney general. He is the first Sikh in the nation to serve as a state attorney general.
National
New Jersey
Taxes

4 blue states sue Washington over GOP tax overhaul

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland sued the federal government over the Republican-led tax overhaul Tuesday.

7 years ago

Ocean County Prosecutor's Office image.
Down the Shore
Criminal Justice
New Jersey

Shore woman banned from animal ownership charged with neglecting dogs

A Shore woman banned from owning animals has been charged with neglecting eight dogs, authorities said. Laura J. Giacini, 53, of T ...

7 years ago

The moon rises behind St. Benedict The Moor Catholic church in Pittsburgh Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016. Pittsburgh is one of six Roman Catholic Dioceses that was the focus of a sealed grand jury investigation across Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania
Religion

Report on clergy abuse in limbo, awaiting decision from Pa. Supreme Court

The government charges that she was acting as a foreign agent without registering.

7 years ago

Court papers unsealed Monday, July 16, 2018, photographed in Washington, shows part of the criminal complaint against Maria Butina.
International

U.S. arrests, accuses woman of acting as Russian agent

Maria Butina was arrested Sunday on a charge of conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of the Russian government.

7 years ago

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