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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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In this Nov. 11, 2017 file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk during the family photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam. The outcome of the first summit between the unpredictable first-term American president and Russia’s steely-eyed longtime leader is anybody’s guess. With no set agenda, the summit could veer between spectacle and substance. As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin head into their meeting, Monday, July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, here’s a look at what each president may be hoping to achieve(Jorge . Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Politics & Policy

Trump sets expectations low for Helsinki summit with Putin

 The outcome of the first summit between the unpredictable first-term American president and Russia's steely-eyed longtime leader is anybody's guess.

8 years ago

Fighters from the United Liberation Movement of Liberia (ULIMO) shoot their way through downtown Monrovia, LIberia Tuesday, April 16, 1996. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)
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Philadelphia is a flashpoint for Liberian human rights advocates

The recent federal convictions of suspected Liberian war criminals in Philadelphia is fueling the demand for a war crimes court in Liberia.

8 years ago

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Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein convened a press conference at the Justice Department on Friday. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Justice Department charges Russian cyberspies with attack on 2016 election

The Justice Department charged 12 Russian intelligence officers Friday with several alleged offenses related to Russia's hacking of the DNC's emails and other targets in 2016.

8 years ago

U.S. President Donald Trump, (center left), with British Prime Minister Theresa May, (center right) are seated during their meeting at Chequers, in Buckinghamshire, England, Friday, July 13, 2018. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump: Relations with May ‘strong’ after bombshell interview

Trump's pomp-filled visit to the United Kingdom was overshadowed by an explosive interview.

8 years ago

Newly discovered aspects of Russia's active measures apparently reveal an effort to exploit Americans' greater trust in local news than in national news organizations. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Russian influence campaign sought to exploit Americans’ trust in local news

The Russian misinformation project was a years-long effort, one that wasn't simply focused on the 2016 election but on destabilizing the United States over an extended period

8 years ago

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., left, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with lawmakers about trade policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in Washington.
Politics & Policy

U.S. Senate approves ceremonial bill from Toomey sending trade message to Trump

The measure states that the president can’t use the national security concerns to invoke tariffs — known as Section 232 — without congressional approval

8 years ago

Air Force One after landing in Bagotville, Canada, in June. At the G-7 meeting there, President Trump threw traditional U.S. allies into disarray over his trade and security policies. (Lars Hagberg/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Stung by Trump at G-7, allies look for better outcome at NATO summit

"They are still licking their wounds from what happened at the G-7."

8 years ago

Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, leaves the Foreign Office on his way to Downing Street for a cabinet meeting, in London, Tuesday June 26, 2018.  Johnson visited Afghanistan for talks on Monday, missing a crucial parliamentary vote on expanding London's Heathrow Airport. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)
Politics & Policy

Boris Johnson quits UK government in mounting Brexit crisis

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resigned Monday, adding to divisions over Brexit that threaten to tear apart Prime Minister Theresa May's government.

8 years ago

Soumana Saley, a leather craftsman from Niger. (Pearl Mak/NPR)
NPR
Community

The secrets and dreams of a leather craftsman

When Soumana Saley was 11 years old, he decided he wanted to learn to be a leather craftsman. "I really liked the work," he remembers.

8 years ago

A building for sale in the town of Isabel Segunda in Vieques. (Ryan Caron King/Connecticut Public Radio)
NPR
Community

Vieques still finding its footing after hurricane destruction

Vieques has long been a hard place to stay for locals, but a good place for visitors. Now, nine months after Hurricane Maria, that dynamic is even more at play.

8 years ago

Onlookers watch and cheer as ambulances deliver boys rescued from a cave in northern Thailand to a hospital in Chiang Rai on Sunday.
NPR
Community

First boys are rescued from cave in Thailand

Four members of the trapped soccer team have been rescued from the flooded cave in Thailand where they had been holed up for more than two weeks.

8 years ago

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters following two days of meetings with a North Korean senior ruling party official, before departing Pyongyang, North Korea, on Saturday. Pompeo did not meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

North Korea slams U.S. talks as ‘regrettable’ after Pompeo called them ‘productive’

Defense Department officials will meet with North Korean officials on July 12 to discuss the repatriation of remains.

8 years ago

Members of a U.S. congressional delegation meet with members of the Russian Federation Council in Moscow on Tuesday. Republican senators met with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on a rare visit to Moscow ahead of a summit between the countries' presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. (Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

GOP lawmakers hope Russia visit sets stage for ‘new day’ ahead of Trump-Putin summit

In April, Trump tweeted that relations between the U.S. and Russia were at their worst ever. What has changed since then is unclear.

8 years ago

A shipping container is offloaded from the Hong Kong-based ship in Oakland, Calif., last month.
(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

China says U.S. has begun ‘largest trade war’ in history, retaliates with tariffs

The tariffs threatened against billions of dollars in Chinese goods took effect at midnight ET while many Americans were sleeping — but Beijing was ready with a wake-up call.

8 years ago

Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as AMLO, speaks to supporters at a campaign rally in Mexico City, Sunday, June 3, 2018. Mexico will hold general elections on July 1. (AP Photo/Anthony Vazquez)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Who is Mexico’s new president?

Guest: Christy Thornton Mexico just elected a new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, more commonly referre ...

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