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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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Crime

Two officers wearing Sheriff vests stand with their backs to the camera
Courts & Law

Man fatally shoots wife and her parents before killing himself in Ocean County, N.J.

Police say three children were unharmed and are with the Department of Child Protection and Permanency.

2 days ago

Police detain Emir Balat after he attempted to detonate an improvised explosive device
Courts & Law

FBI finds explosive residue in storage unit after 2 Bucks County men are charged with lighting bombs in NYC

Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, live in the Philadelphia suburbs and drove together to New York City to carry out the attack near Gracie Mansion, officials said.

2 days ago

Larry Krasner at a podium
Courts & Law
Billy Penn

Krasner warns against retaliatory shootings as weather warms up

Leave justice to the police and courts, or else risk arrest and long jail terms, Philly’s DA says.

3 days ago

Law enforcement officers respond to Manhattan's Upper East Side
Courts & Law

Feds charge 2 Bucks County men for alleged ISIS-inspired bomb plot at NYC Gracie Mansion protest

Both Emir Balat, of Langhorne, and Ibrahim Kayumi, of Newtown, told officers the attack was inspired by ISIS.

4 days ago

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Police tape and the flashing lights of a police vehicle behind
Courts & Law

Former Delco officer accused of child rape fatally shot in a gunfire exchange with Lower Merion Twp. police

Francis Connell Collier resigned in December from the Morton Police Department in Delaware County after being placed on leave because of the investigation.

2 weeks ago

the police scene after a shooting in Philly
Courts & Law

Philly’s DA announces plans to charge 19 people accused in deadly gang shootings tied to ‘violent drill rap’

Prosecutors allege the rival gangs created music videos about the shootings and used the YouTube ad revenue to fund further crimes.

2 weeks ago

Sean Higgins, who is accused of killing hockey star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew, sits in an orange jumpsuit in court
Courts & Law
6abc

Gaudreau brothers crash case: Lawyers claim suspect wasn’t driving drunk

Sean Higgins is accused of being intoxicated when he hit NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew in Salem County in August 2024.

2 weeks ago

Deputies escort Michelle Zajko, left, Daniel Blank, right, and Jack LaSota, in orange, from the Allegany County Courthouse
Courts & Law

A year after border agent’s killing, 7 Zizians fight criminal charges in 3 states

Police in Maryland quickly connected Jack “Ziz” LaSota, Michelle Zajko and Daniel Blank to homicide investigations in California, Pennsylvania and Vermont.

4 weeks ago

The outside of the Norristown Police station
Courts & Law
6abc

Norristown police officer charged after hitting naked man with patrol vehicle

An investigation led by the Montgomery County Detective Bureau concluded that Sergeant Daniel DeOrzio's actions amounted to an unjustifiable use of deadly force.

1 month ago

A sign on the wall for the Delaware DOJ
Courts & Law

Jill Biden’s first husband charged with killing wife in domestic dispute at their Delaware home

William Stevenson, 77, of Wilmington, was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975.

1 month ago

New Castle County Police
Community

Snow shoveling dispute in New Castle County leads to SWAT standoff, arrest

Police say that a 33-year-old man assaulted two other men after an argument over snow shoveling and a parking space.

1 month ago

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Jeffrey Epstein's face is seen among documents in DOJ files
Politics & Policy

Justice Department says it’s releasing 3 million pages from its Jeffrey Epstein files

The files include some of the several million pages of records officials said were withheld from an initial release of documents in December.

1 month ago

Police on the scene after three bodies
Community
6abc

Suspect in custody after 3 found dead following standoff in Bucks County

Video shows a SWAT team breaching the residence, where the suspect was ultimately taken into custody.

1 month ago

SEPTA police officers patrol
Community
Billy Penn

Crime on SEPTA fell again last year — to historic lows

Serious incidents nearly halved since the 2020 pandemic peak.

2 months ago

A sign welcomes people to the Mount Moriah Cemetery
Courts & Law

Lancaster County man accused of stealing human remains from 100 graves at Delco cemetery, possibly others

Authorities said detectives discovered a “horror movie come to life” at the suspect’s home after first finding him at Mount Moriah Cemetery.

2 months ago

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