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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

Large coal power plant. (Big Stock photo)
Energy

FERC rejects Trump bid to boost coal, nuclear power

An independent energy agency on Monday rejected a Trump administration plan to bolster coal-fired and nuclear power plants, dealing a blo ...

8 years ago

New Jersey Transit officials testify at a legislative hearing in Trenton.
New Jersey
Technology
Transportation

NJ Transit says just 6 percent of its fleet has positive train control

At a legislative hearing in Trenton Monday, NJ Transit said just 6 percent of its locomotives have the collision avoidance system, and is ramping up efforts.

8 years ago

Delaware Attorney General Kathleen Jennings. (photo courtesy NCCo)
Delaware
Law

New Castle County leader to run for Delaware attorney general

New Castle County Chief Administrative Officer Kathy Jennings has resigned her post and plans to run for attorney general.

8 years ago

 The Obama administration set a goal to cut carbon emissions by power plants by 30 percent by 2030. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
Delaware
Energy
Environment

Delawareans denounce Trump proposal to end Clean Power Plan

The only public hearing scheduled by the EPA to discuss the decision to end the Clean Power Plan was held in West Virginia, so Delaware leaders held their own hearing.

8 years ago

This image released by NBC shows Oprah Winfrey accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018.
National Interest
Gender
Performing Arts
Social Justice

The politics of celebrity: Oprah stokes the buzz

If Oprah Winfrey intended to hose down her noisome boosters during last night's speech at the Golden Globes, she failed miserably.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania state Sen. Scott Wagner, who is running for the GOP gubernatorial nomination next year, has been urging fellow Republicans not to support a natural gas severance tax — in part because he thinks it would help Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf politically. (AP file photo)
Elections
Pennsylvania

Endorsements trickling in for gubernatorial hopefuls in Pa.

The state Republican Party is starting its month-long series of meetings with candidates for governor.

8 years ago

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions stops to look at cell conditions during a tour of a police station and detention center in San Salvador, El Salvador, in July. The city is known as one of the most dangerous in the world. The Trump administration is expected to decide Monday whether to extend temporary protected status to 250,000 Salvadorans in the U.S. (
Immigration
New Jersey

Thousands in N.J. face deportation should temporary protection end for Salvadorans

A quarter-million Salvadorans in the U.S., could be deported if the Trump administration ends the protection known as TPS.

8 years ago

Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf (AP, file)
Elections
Pennsylvania

Full of optimism, Gov. Wolf prepares for re-election

He sees better days ahead for Pa.'s finances.

8 years ago

Questions surrounding President Trump's temperament intensified this week after excerpts from the book, Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, detailed chaos inside the White House. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
NPR
Media
Mental Health

‘A very stable genius’: Trump responds to renewed criticism of his mental state

President Trump insisted Saturday that he is "a very stable genius."

8 years ago

Amazon could get up to $3 billion in tax breaks if it locates its new headquarters in New Jersey.
Business
New Jersey

Amazon could get billions in tax breaks if it moves to New Jersey

The Garden State would give Amazon a $3 billion tax break if it brought at least 30,000 jobs to Newark,

8 years ago

In January, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced plans to expand possible offshore drilling sites in federal waters including nine sites in the Atlantic region. (AP file)
Energy
New Jersey

Trump proposal to Atlantic offshore drilling draws opposition from New Jersey lawmakers

Lawmakers see the plan as a threat to the state’s $44 billion tourism industry.

8 years ago

The U.S. Capitol building at dusk in Washington (Evan Vucci/AP, file)
NewsWorks Tonight
Delaware
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

Area U.S. lawmakers seeking common congressional ground for 2018

Infrastructure, foreign policy, improving Affordable Care Act among priorities for federal legislators in 2018.

8 years ago

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Delaware
Politics

Delaware reacts to AG Sessions cannabis memo

Some Delaware lawmakers have been making a push to legalize recreational marijuana, but new federal guidance could derail those plans.

8 years ago

(Rob Tornoe/for WHYY)
First
Delaware
Health Care

Congress to sick kids in Delaware: Drop dead, maybe

2017 came and went, and with it hope that Congress would come to the aid of millions of kids in Delaware and all across the country depending on them for their health care.

8 years ago

The New York Times published a series of articles based on the secret Pentagon papers in 1971.
National Interest
Books
National

Censorship stupidity: Trump tries to keep the Wolff from his door

How fitting that Trump's attempt to block the release of a devastating book roughly parallels Richard Nixon's attempt to block the release of the Pentagon Papers.

8 years ago

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