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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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NPR
Health

Telemedicine abortions just got more complicated for health providers

Prescribing medical abortions across state lines is now risky for doctors.

4 years ago

File photo: In this Dec. 2, 2020, file photo, Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey answers a question during a news conference in Phoenix.  (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)
Courts & Law

Arizona judge: State can enforce near-total abortion ban

Arizona can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years, a judge ruled Friday, meaning clinics statew ...

4 years ago

The Confederate flag and monument at the Marvel Carriage Museum. (WHYY file)
Courts & Law

‘Just outlandish’: Council members violated Delaware law by reissuing check to museum that flies Confederate flag

“Through serial calls and actions,” three Georgetown officials spent “public money outside of public view,” the Attorney General’s Office ruled.

4 years ago

File photo: In this Thursday, March 11, 2021 file photo, desks are arranged in a classroom at an elementary school in Nesquehoning, Pa
Courts & Law

Pa.’s ChildLine Registry does more harm than good for children of color

Attorney Jamie Gullen, who has spent a decade representing youth at Community Legal Services, takes aim at the state’s ChildLine Registry for violating due process rights.

4 years ago

A sign marks the facade of the Department of Justice building in Washington on May 5, 2022. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

DOJ appeals judge’s order barring its use of classified materials in Mar-a-Lago probe

The Justice Department is asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to lift part of an order that bars the government from using classified materials seized from Mar-A-Lago in

4 years ago

A courtroom sketch of Judge Raymond Dearie in New York in January 2013. (Reuters)
NPR
Courts & Law

What to know about Judge Raymond Dearie, the Mar-a-Lago search special master

The former chief judge of the federal court in the Eastern District of New York was one of the candidates suggested by Trump whom the Justice Department did not object to.

4 years ago

The skyline in Philadelphia is pictured along the Schuylkill River
Courts & Law

Philadelphia area company accused of racism by ex-employee

Jerome Staley alleges AAMCO used him as a shining example of its diversity program while paying him $40,000 a year less than his white counterparts.

4 years ago

Traffic on I-95 heads south toward Center City.
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Road rage, super-speeding and reckless driving on the rise

The pandemic set off a rise in speeding that hasn't stopped. This hour, we discuss incidents of road rage and dangerous reckless driving posing a threat to commuters.

Air Date: September 15, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:12
This image captured from bodycam video released by the Childersburg (Ala.) Police Department and provided by attorney Harry Daniels shows Michael Jennings, left, in custody in Childersburg, Ala., on May 22. Jennings was helping out a friend by watering flowers when officers showed up and placed him under arrest within moments. (Childersburg Police Department via AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

A Black pastor sues the police who arrested him while watering his neighbors’ flowers

The lawsuit names the city of Childersburg, Ala., which oversees the police department that arrested Jennings, as a defendant.

4 years ago

File photo: A pitch clock is deployed to restrict pitcher preparation times during a minor league baseball game between the Brooklyn Cyclones and Greensboro Grasshoppers, July 13, 2022, in the Coney Island neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Major League Baseball is set to announce a pitch clock and limits on defensive shifts next season in an effort to shorten games and increase offense. The sport’s 11-man competition committee is set to adopt the rules changes Friday, Sept. 9. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Arts & Entertainment

MLB adopts pitch clock, shift limits, bigger bases for 2023

The changes had long been pushed by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred in an effort to combat the increase in dead time and suffocation of offense in the age of analytics.

4 years ago

Lee Thompson waits in a room at Jefferson University Hospital, to get a tubal ligation. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

‘I feel much more in control’: In a post-Roe America, Philadelphians consider permanent birth control procedures

The overturning of Roe has prompted some people to seek permanent birth control methods, as doctors consider their role in educating patients about irreversible procedures.

4 years ago

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This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on Aug. 30, 2022, and redacted by in part by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the Aug. 8 search by the FBI of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. (Department of Justice via AP)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The latest in the Trump classified documents investigation

How will the appointment of a "special master" impact the DOJ investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents?

Air Date: September 7, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:29
File photo: A Juul electronic cigarette sign hangs in the front window of a bodega convenience store in New York City on June 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
Courts & Law

Juul to pay nearly $440M to settle states’ teen vaping probe

The settlement resolves one of the biggest legal threats facing the company, which still faces separate lawsuits from other states and individuals.

4 years ago

A little girl looks over the shoulder of an adult wearing a shirt which has a Bible verse written on the back.
Politics & Policy

In new gun law, a quiet breakthrough for victims of abuse

A new bipartisan gun safety law makes it more difficult for intimate partners convicted of domestic abuse to obtain firearms.

4 years ago

File photo: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, right, shakes hands with Rep. Mark Rozzi, D-Berks, after signing legislation into law at Muhlenberg High School in Reading, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. Wolf approved legislation Tuesday to give future victims of child sexual abuse more time to file lawsuits and to end time limits for police to file criminal charges. (Matt Rourke / AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
WITF

A lawsuit window for Pa. survivors of childhood sexual abuse could open as early as next May

State legislative leaders say they’ll take a procedural vote on the proposal early next year. 2023 primary voters would then get to weigh in.

4 years ago

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