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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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President Donald Trump hosts a listening session with high school students, teachers, and others
National Interest
K-12
Public Safety

The very stable genius wants schools to lock and load

So Trump wants to arm the teachers, to militarize the schools. Naturally, he plucked that beaut straight from the NRA playbook.

9 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati, R-Jefferson (middle), and Speaker of the House Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny (right), at a press conference in 2017. (AP Photo/Chris Knight)
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

Pa. GOP appeals to U.S. Supreme Court to halt new congressional maps

This is the third time in recent months they’ve made such an appeal in a gerrymandering case.

9 years ago

An aerial view of the site of an early morning train crash Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018 between an Amtrak train, bottom right, and a CSX freight train, top left, in Cayce, SC. The Amtrak passenger train slammed into a freight train in the early morning darkness Sunday, killing at least two Amtrak crew members and injuring more than 110 people, authorities said.  (Jeff Blake/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
National
Public Safety
Transportation

Philly area lawmakers oppose Trump plan to cut Amtrak funding

The budget plan proposes cutting in half the federal subsidy for Amtrak, including slicing grants to the Northeast Corridor by $128 million.

9 years ago

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(M. Spencer Green/AP)
NPR
Infrastructure
K-12
National

Trauma bags and armed guards: Securing schools without creating a fortress

Since the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, schools across the country have been hardening their defenses.

9 years ago

Alex Trebek walks out on stage at the 44th annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Center on Sunday, April 30, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Elections
Pennsylvania

‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek to moderate Pa. governor’s debate

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf will face off in November against the winner of May's Republican primary.

9 years ago

U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, seen here in August 2017. (AP Photo, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

Toomey rails against Pa. redistricting, calls for conversation on impeaching justices

“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has engaged in a really amazing, highly partisan, unconstitutional power grab,” he told reporters in the Capitol rotunda.

9 years ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with then-President Barack Obama in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 5, 2016. Obama's warnings about active measures went unheeded.
(Alexei Druzhinin/AP)
NPR
Elections
International

Fact Check: Why didn’t Obama stop Russia’s election interference in 2016?

This story is complex and goes beyond a simple "True" or "False" grade.

9 years ago

Phil Murphy speaks to supporters at the Asbury Park Convention Hall
Health Care
New Jersey

Murphy reverses Christie, approves $7.5M for women’s health in N.J.

It's the first bill that Gov. Phil Murphy has signed into law since succeeding Republican Chris Christie last month.

9 years ago

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and other students from Broward County, Fla.
National Interest

Four sick ways to smear the Florida high school survivors

This is America, where so many bottom feeders dwell beneath the bottom of the barrel.

9 years ago

Gov. Phil Murphy and members of his administration discuss steps New Jersey will take in response to the mass killing in Florida. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
K-12
Kids
New Jersey

N.J. making school safety a top priority, governor says

Gov. Phil Murphy says he’ll work with legislative leaders to enact more gun-safety statutes.

9 years ago

In this Jan. 12, 2018 photo, a woman wears a gun in a holster next to two copies of the U.S. Constitution during a gun rights rally at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash.
Delaware
New Jersey
Public Safety

‘Red flag’ firearm-restraining legislation considered in New Jersey, Delaware

The measures allow family members and law enforcement agents to petition a judge to restrict a person’s access to guns — if they believe that person could be a threat.

9 years ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at Red Square in Moscow on May 9, 2017. Russian-backed efforts seen attempting to interfere in U.S. politics appear to be evolving.
PBS

Russia’s ‘troll factory’ impersonates Americans to sow political chaos. How can the U.S. fight it?

9 years ago

FILE - This July 31, 2017, file photo shows discarded syringes in an open-air heroin market that has thrived for decades, slated for cleanup along train tracks a few miles outside the heart of Philadelphia. Philadelphia wants to become the first U.S. city to allow supervised drug injection sites as a way to combat the opioid epidemic, city officials announced Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, saying they would seek outside operators to establish one or more safe injection sites. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Radio Times
Addiction
Philadelphia

The push for safe injection sites in Philadelphia

Guests: Dionne Butts, Mary Beth Appel, Christopher Moraff Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and District Attorney Lar ...

Air Date: February 21, 2018

Listen 49:27
Sen. Pat Toomey (center) tours New Hudson Facades in Linwood, Pennsylvania, promoting the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Toomey visits DelCo factory to tout GOP tax overhaul

The event was part victory lap — and part pep rally — and it coincides with rising approval ratings for the new tax policy.

9 years ago

Listen 1:54
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announces his most recent Cabinet appointments. From left, Zakiya Smith Ellis, who will serve as secretary of higher education; Sue Fulton, who will lead the Motor Vehicle Commission; and Deirdre Webster Cobb, who will serve chair the Civil Service Commission. (Edwin J. Torres/ Governor's Office)
New Jersey

N.J. governor continues quest for diversity with three more Cabinet appointments

With most recent nominations, majority of Gov. Phil Murphy's Cabinet members are women — a first for New Jersey.

9 years ago

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