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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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Pharmacist scanning barcode of medicine drug in a pharmacy drugstore
Crime
Health Care
Philadelphia

Two Northeast pharmacies fined $3.5 million to settle charges of Medicare Fraud

The alleged scheme was carried out from 2012 to 2016, and the medication that the government was billed for included treatments for asthma, depression, and some anesthetics.

2 years ago

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks at a podium
Government
Government Accountability
Law
National

The election-meddling indictment against Trump is sprawling. Here’s a breakdown of the case

A sprawling indictment unsealed Tuesday says the one who tried to steal the election was Trump, in a desperate bid to cling to power.

2 years ago

Trump talks to someone on the phone
Law
National
Politics

Here’s where all the cases against Trump stand as he campaigns for a return to the White House

Here’s a look at some of the top probes against Trump as he campaigns for the 2024 Republican nomination.

2 years ago

Attendees gaze at a painting of Henrietta Lacks by Kadir Nelson at HBO's The HeLa Project Exhibit for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in 2017 in New York City. Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for HBO
NPR
Health Care
Medicine
Public Health
Race & Ethnicity

Henrietta Lacks’ descendants reach a settlement over the use of her ‘stolen’ cells

Her genetic material, taken without her knowledge in 1951, has helped facilitate numerous scientific breakthroughs, including the development of the polio and COVID-19 vaccine

2 years ago

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, arrives for a court appearance, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in Wilmington, Del.
Crime
Delaware
Taxes

Inside Hunter Biden’s tax crimes: How the president’s son blew off the IRS while making millions

The lawyer and businessman repeatedly admitted in court that he broke the law while ignoring request after request by associates to pay tax debts.

2 years ago

This image of Larry Fife Giberson, circled in annotation by the Justice Department in the Statement of Facts supporting the arrest Giberson, shows him outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6. 2021.
Criminal Justice
Elections
Higher Education
New Jersey

Princeton University student pleads guilty to joining mob’s attack on Capitol

On Jan. 6, 2021, 22-year-old Larry Fife Giberson joined other rioters in a coordinated push against police officers in a tunnel on the Capitol's Lower West Terrace.

2 years ago

People walk outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood on Thursday, July 13, 2023, the day a federal jury announced they had found Robert Bowers, who in 2018 killed 11 people at the synagogue, eligible for the death penalty
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Religion

Jury poised to deliberate death penalty or life sentence for gunman in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre

The same jurors who convicted 50-year-old Robert Bowers in June on 63 criminal counts listened to closing arguments in the penalty phase of his federal trial Monday.

2 years ago

File photo: Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a CNN town hall at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C., Feb. 18, 2016.
Elections
Government
Media

Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida

Trump claimed in the suit that references to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

2 years ago

Supporters of Safehouse, Philadelphia’s proposed supervised injection site, rally outside the federal courthouse
Addiction
Behavioral Health
Philadelphia
Public Health

Safehouse supervised injection settlement talks fail as the DOJ pushes to dismiss civil lawsuit

Safehouse first entered settlement negotiations with the U.S. Department of Justice in early 2022.

2 years ago

President Biden places his hand over his heart.
NPR
Criminal Justice
Military
National

Biden implements sweeping changes to how the military handles sexual assault cases

The reforms place serious criminal cases under the authority of trained prosecutors. Previously, key decisions had been left up to victims' own commanders.

2 years ago

The Delaware County courthouse in Media.
Criminal Justice
Incarceration
Pennsylvania

Delaware County makes historic change to bail retention fees

Delaware County is lowering its bail retention fees — which at 40%, is the highest in Pennsylvania.

2 years ago

police on the football field
Gun Violence
New Jersey
Public Safety

New Jersey man convicted in shooting that killed 10-year-old at Pleasantville High School football game

Alvin Wyatt, 35, of Atlantic City, had argued that he acted in self defense when he opened fire at Pleasantville High School on Nov. 15, 2019.

2 years ago

Former President Donald Trump waves before boarding his personal plane at Miami International Airport on June 13, in Miami after his first court appearance in the classified documents case.
Crime
Government Accountability

Donald Trump faces new charges in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. Here’s what to know

Here’s the latest on Trump’s new charges and where his other legal cases stand.

2 years ago

An aerial view of Mar-a-Lago
Government Accountability
Law
National
Politics

Trump accused of asking staffer to delete camera footage in Florida classified documents case

The allegations were made Thursday in an updated grand jury indictment that adds new charges against Trump and adds another defendant to the case.

2 years ago

File photo: Sunoco's Mariner East 2 pipeline construction on Pennell Road in Middletown Township. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Energy
Environment
Infrastructure
Pennsylvania

Sunoco Pipeline ordered to pay $660,000 for environmental violations, DEP says

Sunoco will pay two separate civil penalties for numerous violations of the Clean Streams Law and the Dam Safety and Encroachments Act.

2 years ago

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