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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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Criminal Justice

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrives for a bail hearing at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City on Aug. 11, 2023. Bankman-Fried was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of fraud last year.
NPR
Courts & Law

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison for his FTX crimes

The sentence marks a stunning fall for the 32-year-old former crypto executive who was once seen as the future of finance.

2 years ago

Former US President Donald Trump speaks to the press in a hallway outside the courtroom at the end of a hearing to determine the date of his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on March 25, 2024. Trump faces twin legal crises today in New York, where he could see the possible seizure of his storied properties over a massive fine as he separately fights to delay a criminal trial even further. (Photo by JUSTIN LANE / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN LANE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

N.Y. judge issues a limited gag order on Trump ahead of hush money trial

The new gag order on former President Donald Trump specifically bars him from making public statements about witnesses, prosecutors or jurors in his first criminal trial.

2 years ago

Blanche Carney
Community

Philadelphia prison chief to leave job after string of prisoner deaths and escapes

Since 2016, Blanche Carney has overseen the city’s prisons and jails, which have been dealing with violence and the escape of four prisoners in a span of six months last year.

2 years ago

Crime scene on the street
Courts & Law

Philadelphia mass shooting suspect is headed to trial after receiving mental health treatment

Kimbrady Carriker is charged for the seemingly random shootings in Kingsessing in July 2023.

2 years ago

Bam Margera
Courts & Law
6abc

Charges withdrawn for former TV star Bam Margera following incident outside Radnor Hotel

Margera was cited for public intoxication and disorderly conduct after a dispute at the Radnor Hotel last August.

2 years ago

Donald Trump Holds Get Out The Vote Rally In Georgia
NPR
Courts & Law

Trump unable to post $450M bond in New York fraud case, his lawyers say

Trump's lawyers say they've approached 30 companies through four brokers and none will accept his real estate holdings as a guarantee on the bond.

2 years ago

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner takes part in a news conference in Philadelphia, Monday, March 11, 2024. Krasner announced Monday, March 18, 2024, that a man who spent more than a decade in prison after his arrest as a teen won't be retried in a 2011 quadruple shooting. C.J. Rice, now 30, has been free since a federal judge late last year found his trial lawyer deficient and the state's case weak. (
Courts & Law

Charges dropped against C.J. Rice after judge deems evidence against him as ‘slender’

After spending more than a decade in prison, C.J. Rice told CNN’s Jake Tapper the “air tastes sweeter” as a free man.

2 years ago

The Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex building
Courts & Law

New Jersey is creating a new online database to allow sexual assault survivors to track cases

The trauma-informed online database aims to lessen the added burden for sexual assault survivors to monitor their cases.

2 years ago

Listen 1:18
A memorial dedicated to the victims of last week's mass shooting in Kansas City.
Community

3 men face firearms charges after Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting, authorities say

Court documents that were part of the complaint said 12 people brandished firearms and at least six people fired weapons at the rally.

2 years ago

Evidence markers are seen following a shooting in Northeast Philadelphia on Wednesday, March 6, 2024.
Courts & Law
6abc

4th suspect sought for mass shooting at SEPTA bus stop identified; up to $5,000 reward offered

Asir Boone, 17, is wanted for attempted murder. He should be considered armed and dangerous, officials said.

2 years ago

Evidence markers are seen following a shooting in Northeast Philadelphia
Courts & Law
6abc

Police retract statement saying 4th suspect in custody for Philly mass shooting; remains at large

Police say they are still working to see if the bus stop shooting is connected to the killing of an Imhotep Charter High School student, 17-year-old Dayemen Taylor.

2 years ago

A housing unit in the west section of the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix
Courts & Law

Man freed from prison after 34 years after judge vacates conviction in 1990 murder

61-year-old Ronald Johnson was released from SCI-Phoenix on Monday night following a Philadelphia judge's decision and the prosecutor's move to dismiss charges.

2 years ago

Krasner speaks at a podium
Courts & Law

‘We will get the just and appropriate results’: Philly’s DA continues to weigh charges in car stop arrest, fatal bus stop shooting

The Philadelphia DA is vowing to get to the bottom of Monday’s quintuple shooting, and a car stop Saturday that involved a member of the Mayor’s administration.

2 years ago

File photo: Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Courts & Law

New obstruction of justice crimes levied against Sen. Bob Menendez in rewritten indictment

Menendez is accused of taking actions that benefited the governments of Egypt and Qatar to help two N.J. associates get financial deals linked to those two countries.

2 years ago

File photo: Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., waits to speak during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing, Dec. 6, 2023, in Washington.
Courts & Law

Judge rejects Sen. Bob Menendez’s claims that search warrants in bribery case were unconstitutional

The senator's lawyers claimed warrants were “riddled with material misrepresentation and omissions that deceived the authorizing magistrate judge.”

2 years ago

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