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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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Politics & Policy

The majority of absentee ballots are rejected in Pennsylvania for lateness, and the rejection rate is increasing. (Alan Diaz/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Elections

Pa. rejected twice as many absentee ballots in 2018

The majority of absentee ballots are rejected in Pennsylvania for lateness, and the rejection rate is increasing.

7 years ago

In this March 3, 2019, file photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, and his wife, Jane Sanders, greet supporters as they leave after his 2020 presidential campaign stop at Navy Pier in Chicago. (Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo)
Elections

Is Jane Sanders the most powerful woman not running in 2020?

Jane Sanders remains his closest adviser, making her perhaps the most influential woman in the 2020 campaign who isn't a candidate.

7 years ago

In this Tuesday March 12, 2019 file photo Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to lawmakers in parliament, London. Britain's love-hate relationship with the rest of Europe goes back decades, but the Brexit crisis gripping it today stems from dramatic January 2013 speech by Prime Minister David Cameron in which he promised an
International

UK leader to lawmakers: Back my deal or face lengthy delay

Theresa May also cautioned that if lawmakers failed to back her deal before Thursday's European Council summit, "we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever."

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., speaks during a campaign meet-and-greet, Friday, March 15, 2019, at To Share Brewing in Manchester, N.H. (Elise Amendola/AP Photo)
Elections

Gillibrand in 2020 Democratic race as full-fledged candidate

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand formally joined the 2020 White House race on Sunday and previewed the hard line she will take against President Donald Trump.

7 years ago

In this March 14, 2019, photo, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan goes before the Senate Armed Services Committee to discuss the Department of Defense budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington. To a remarkable degree, the Pentagon’s new budget proposal is shaped by national security threats that Shanahan has summarized in three words: “China, China, China.” (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Military

New U.S. military budget focused on China despite border talk

The $25 billion the Pentagon is proposing to spend on nuclear weapons in 2020, for example, is meant in part to stay ahead of China's nuclear arsenal.

7 years ago

In this file photo, former Vice President Joe Biden takes the stage to speak to the International Association of Firefighters at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Delaware
National

Biden’s slip of the tongue shows increased likelihood of presidential run

Some national polls already show the former vice president as a favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination.

7 years ago

In this March 15, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks about border security in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2019, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
National

Beyond veto: Trump seeks more workarounds to avoid Congress

President Donald Trump's first veto was more than a milestone. It signals a new era of ever perilous relations between the executive and legislative branches of government.

7 years ago

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2019, file photo, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, left, applauds at a campaign house party in Manchester, N.H. While the Democratic primary field has shifted left, polls show registered Democratic voters just want someone who can beat Donald Trump. That’s led to a potential contradiction being worked over by primary voters. Is the best route to victory to build a liberal movement to win converts or choose a more moderate candidate who can appeal to swing voters? (Elise Amendola/AP Photo, File)
National

Left or center? Democrats mull best options to beat Trump

The early days of the Democratic contest are dominated by a debate over whether candidates such as Sanders are moving the party too far left.

7 years ago

In this March 5, 2019, image, Ruth Aracely Monroy, (center), looks out of the family's tent alongside her 10-month-old son, Joshua, as her husband, Juan Carlos Perla, (left), passes inside a shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico. (Gregory Bull/AP Photo)
Immigration
International

Asylum seeker abandons U.S. plans in face of new policy

The administration expanded its "Migrant Protection Protocols" strategy on Monday to a second border crossing and officials say the practice will grow along the entire border.

7 years ago

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, (center), speaks at a gathering for diplomats in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Friday. (Eric Talmadge/AP)
NPR
International
Military

North Korea considers whether to resume nuclear, missile tests amid impasse with U.S.

Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said that Kim Jong Un would soon decide whether to end his country's voluntary moratorium on testing missiles and nuclear weapons.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks about border security in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2019, in Washington. Trump issued the first veto of his presidency, overruling Congress to protect his emergency declaration for border wall funding. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
NPR
Immigration
National

Trump vetoes Congressional effort to limit border wall funding

President Trump used his veto pen for the first time Friday, after Congress tried to reverse his national emergency declaration and rein in spending on a border wall.

7 years ago

(Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Policing
Streets & Roads

Philly will ask voters to approve new breed of traffic cops

City Council approved changing Philadelphia's city charter Thursday to create public safety workers to assist police in traffic control and certain enforcement actions.

7 years ago

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses the media on March 16 in Wellington, New Zealand. Ardern said she would seek a change in her country's gun laws after after at least one man opened fire during afternoon prayers Friday and killed at least 49 people at two mosques in Christchurch. (Mark Tantrum/Getty Image)
NPR
International
Public Safety

‘Our gun laws will change’ after 49 die in shootings at mosques, New Zealand PM says

The violent attack struck at the very heart of New Zealand, a country that prides itself on being both peaceful and diverse.

7 years ago

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. at a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Friday (Joe Hernandez/WHYY)
National

‘There will be a woman on the ticket’: Booker vows to pick a female VP

As Cory Booker pledges to New Hampshire voters a woman will be on the presidential ticket, some urged him to take a step back and let female candidate take nomination.

7 years ago

Democrats and Republicans in Delaware debate over legislation that would give Delaware a stronger voice in presidential elections. (Zoe Read/WHYY)
Delaware

Delaware moves to give its Electoral College votes to the popular vote winner

A coalition of states are pushing to reward the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote with their Electoral College votes.

7 years ago

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