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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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Starbucks regional manager Camille Hymes speaks with activist Asa Khalif during a protest over the recent arrest of two black men inside the store at 18th and Spruce streets. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for WHYY)
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Protesters demand firing of Philly Starbucks manager following arrests of two black men

Protesters called on Starbucks to fire the manager, demanded the Philadelphia Police terminate the officers.

8 years ago

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Jose De La Cruz Ramirez, a gardener in Upper Bucks County, was criminally prosecuted before being deported to Mexico. (Courtesy of Linda Ammerman)
Immigration
Pennsylvania

From border-crosser to felon

The Trump administration encouraged prosecutors to seek felony charges against those who re-enter the U.S. after being deported.

8 years ago

Philadelphia
Policing

Philly mayor: Starbucks arrests ‘exemplify what racial discrimination looks like in 2018’

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross says the police officers who arrested two black men at a Starbucks in Center City "did absolutely nothing wrong."

8 years ago

Route I-81 near Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Immigration
Pennsylvania
Policing

For cops who want to help ICE crack down on illegal immigration, Pennsylvania is a free-for-all

Without guidelines or oversight, some officers are using traffic stops to question Hispanics and turn over undocumented immigrants to ICE.

8 years ago

Listen 5:35
Lewis
NPR
National
Politics

President Trump pardons ‘Scooter’ Libby, former Cheney chief of staff

The Libby pardon is only the latest twist in a story of spies, leaks, accusations of hidden motives and abuse of power.

8 years ago

Andrea Constand, center, walks into a courtroom for Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Friday, April 13, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. Constand, Bill Cosby's chief accuser, will take the witness stand on Friday.

On the stand, Cosby’s main accuser said she came to court ‘for justice’

Andrea Constand remembers thinking it was “absurd” for Bill Cosby, her friend and mentor, to have a romantic interest in her.

8 years ago

Listen 4:45
A gas drilling site in Lycoming County, Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, file)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Bill would weaken standards on conventional oil and gas drillers in Pa.

The measure marks the latest move in a protracted legal and political battle over how to regulate the state’s oil and gas industry.

8 years ago

Anne Franco and her husband, Ludvin Franco, on their wedding day (Provided)
Immigration
Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania, it’s open season on undocumented immigrants

ICE’s Philadelphia office is making more 'at-large' arrests of immigrants without criminal convictions than anywhere else in America.

8 years ago

Williams College, seen here, is one of the institutions that reportedly received a letter from the Justice Department about communications with other colleges regarding students admitted via early decision. (John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)
NPR
Business
Higher Education

Justice Dept. investigating early-decision admissions at elite colleges

The system has been criticized as favoring students from wealthy families, who are able to commit without knowing what financial aid they'll receive.

8 years ago

Janice Dickinson walks through the Montgomery County Courthouse during a break in Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial on Thursday, April 12, 2018, in Norristown, Pa.

Cosby accuser on omitting assault in memoir: ‘I wasn’t under oath when I wrote book’

Not long before reality TV star and former model Janice Dickinson says Bill Cosby raped her in 1984, she snapped a picture of the iconic entertainer in a hotel in Lake Tahoe.

8 years ago

Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown after the third day of his  sexual assault trial Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Third Cosby accuser says he gave her pills, then she passed out on backgammon board

Janice Baker-Kinney was the third woman to tell a Montgomery County jury the 80-year-old comedian gave her a substance that knocked her out before he sexually assaulted her.

8 years ago

Activist Bird Milliken shouts
NewsWorks Tonight
Criminal Justice
Law
Pennsylvania

Catalyzed by Cosby, advocates aim to end time limits on reporting sexual assault

Comedian Bill Cosby's retrial is underway, and some activists hope the case will highlight their fight to end statutes of limitations on prosecuting sex crimes.

8 years ago

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Chelan Lasha weeps as she returns to the courtroom after recess to testify against Bill Cosby during Cosby's sexual assault retrial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. (Dominick Reuter/Pool Photo via AP)

Second Cosby accuser tells jury ‘Dr. Huxtable’ humped her leg at the Las Vegas Hilton

Bill Cosby accuser Chelan Lasha testified on Wednesday that the comedian drugged her and humped her leg in a suite at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1986.

8 years ago

Heidi Thomas arrives to testify against actor and comedian Bill Cosby during the retrial of Cosby's sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on Wednesday, April 11, 2018.

Cosby accuser told Constand, ‘I got your back, sister’

Bill Cosby’s attorneys sought to portray one of his accusers as an attention-seeker influenced by other women sharing their allegations against the comedian

8 years ago

Listen 2:48
Radio Times
Law
Politics

F.B.I. raid on Michael Cohen’s offices

Guest: Mimi Rocah Yesterday the F.B.I. raided the offices and home of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal ...

Air Date: April 11, 2018

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