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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

Outside Philadelphia Municipal Court's landlord-tenant unit in the Widener Building. (PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Study: Spending now on legal aid would save city down the road

Currently, the vast majority of renters do not receive legal aid in Philadelphia, where landlords evict more people than in other large cities.

8 years ago

Bill Cosby is taken away in handcuffs after he was sentenced to three-to 10-years for felony sexual assault on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, in Norristown, Pa.  (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)
The Why
Comedy
Criminal Justice

Cosby Incarcerated

Our Cosby Unraveled crossover episode takes a peek at Cosby's life behind bars and considers what should become of the products of his towering comedy career.

Air Date: November 12, 2018

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Central American migrants rest outside a soccer stadium after arriving in Queretaro, Mexico, as they resume their journey north, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. Thousands of Central American migrants were back on the move toward the U.S. border Saturday, after dedicated Mexico City metro trains whisked them to the outskirts of the capital and drivers began offering rides north. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Immigration
International

Migrant caravan heads to central Mexican city of Irapuato

The migrants appear to be on a path to Tijuana across the border from San Diego, which is still some 1,600 miles away.

8 years ago

 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks with National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen at the museum Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
PBS NewsHour

Ruth Bader Ginsburg released from hospital after fall

8 years ago

Shawnee Rae, age 8, among a group of Native American activists from the Sisseton-Wahpeton tribe protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline in Watertown, S.D. in 2015.
NPR
Energy
Environment
National

In a setback for Trump, judge blocks Keystone Pipeline construction

A U.S. district judge has issued an order blocking construction of the controversial transnational Keystone XL Pipeline until the State Department conducts further study

8 years ago

Brett Kavanaugh speaks after being sworn-in at the White House last month. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
National

Heightened security as Brett Kavanaugh formally takes Supreme Court seat

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump are scheduled to attend the ceremony.

8 years ago

Philadelphia's standing as a sanctuary city — and whether the U.S. government can penalize it by withholding a federal grant — is again the subject of a court hearing. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Immigration
National
Philadelphia

Federal appeals judges hear arguments in Philly ‘sanctuary city’ case

Lawyers for the Trump administration Wednesday tried again to legally justify its attempt to punish "sanctuary cities" like Philadelphia.

8 years ago

 Philadelphia Police Department headquarters (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Philadelphia police officer wounded in shooting, 2 suspects arrested

Authorities say two suspects have been arrested in a shooting that wounded a Philadelphia police officer.

8 years ago

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Down the Shore
New Jersey

Officials: Shore therapist paid undercover FBI agent to maim colleague

Authorities say a New Jersey therapist hired an FBI agent posing as a hit man to disfigure a colleague who had threatened to report her to a licensing board.

8 years ago

(Steve Ruark/AP Photo, file)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Shore man sentenced to jail for killing Navy veteran’s service dog

A Jersey Shore man who killed a Navy veteran's service dog in training has been sentenced to 90 days in jail.

8 years ago

President Barack Obama speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015.  Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa. is at right.  (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
NPR
National
Politics

Supreme Court won’t review decision that ok’d Obama-era net neutrality rules

The Supreme Court has rejected telecom companies' attempts to quash a lower court's decision that upheld the Obama administration's net neutrality rules.

8 years ago

This March 23, 2018 file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith)
National

Trial starts over 2020 census citizenship question

A federal trial began Monday in New York City over challenges to the federal government's decision to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census.

8 years ago

Police investigators work the scene of the shooting on Friday in Tallahassee, Fla. The assailant has been identified, and details are emerging about his criminal and online history. (Steve Cannon/AP)
NPR

Gunman in yoga studio attack had a criminal history, posted racist and sexist videos

He had been charged with battery twice, and multiple news outlets have reported on evidence of his misogynist and racist beliefs.

8 years ago

Two young people speak at a rally Monday in Seattle. The Supreme Court said it would not stop the lawsuit that inspired this rally, along with others in Portland and Eugene, Ore.
(Elaine Thompson/AP)
NPR
Environment
Kids
Politics

Young activists can sue government over climate change, Supreme Court says

The trial could start as early as mid-November.

8 years ago

 A Princess 60 yacht. [By rdesai from Newport Beach, Ca (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons]
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Shore yacht captain pleads guilty to seaman’s manslaughter

A New Jersey yacht captain accused of causing a fatal collision off the coast of Rhode Island has pleaded guilty.

8 years ago

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