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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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Politics

President Joe Biden speaks about the government's COVID-19 response, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Health

You’ll be able to order free at-home COVID test kits starting on Wednesday

4 years ago

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during his weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol on December 3, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

The top House Republican won’t comply with Jan. 6 panel request to voluntarily testify

Among its questions, the committee is probing any conversations Kevin McCarthy had with former President Donald Trump on the day of the Capitol attack.

4 years ago

Delaware state Sen. Darius Brown (Darius Brown)
Courts & Law

NAACP, pastors want end of punishment for Delaware senator acquitted of assault

Some Wilmington pastors and the state NAACP say state Sen. Darius Brown should have his senate leadership positions restored after being acquitted of assault.

4 years ago

File photo: Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings (Cris Barrish)
Courts & Law

Delaware AG sues city of Seaford over abortion ordinance

The complaint asks Chancery Court to make permanent a stay on the ordinance’s enforcement imposed by the city itself in hopes of thwarting a lawsuit.

4 years ago

The Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. (Russ Walker/PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. lawmakers nearing deadline for new congressional map. Here’s what’s next

The state House is planning to pass a Republican-drawn draft by Wednesday. Gov. Wolf has signaled he’d veto that version. Courts seem poised to intervene.

4 years ago

Delaware state seal
Politics & Policy

Delaware lawmakers start third year of pandemic-limited meetings in Dover

With COVID-19 case numbers soaring, the Delaware General Assembly will regroup in Dover for the start of a hybrid of in-person and virtual meetings.

4 years ago

A close-up of a Pennsylvania congressional map.
Politics & Policy

Pa. GOP seeks more control over legislative redistricting

State House Republicans who just lost a key vote on new preliminary legislative district maps moved Monday to regain more control of the process.

4 years ago

An aerial view of the New Jersey State Assembly in Trenton
Politics & Policy

Incoming N.J. Senate leadership team the most diverse in state history

When the 219th state Legislature is sworn in at noon on Tuesday, the overall body and its Democratic leadership will include more people of color.

4 years ago

Multiple campaign signs and posters, including some supporting President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, adorn the front window of the Montgomery County Democratic Committee’s Norristown office. (NBC10)
Politics & Policy

Man accused of shooting into party headquarters in Montco enters pleas

A suburban Philadelphia man accused of firing three shots into a local Democratic Party office on Inauguration Day has pleaded guilty to related federal charges.

4 years ago

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations to examine U.S.-Russia policy with testimony from Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is running for reelection

4 years ago

FILE - President Joe Biden departs after speaking about the October jobs report from the State Dining Room of the White House, Nov. 5, 2021, in Washington. As President Joe Biden wraps up his first year in the White House, he has held fewer news conferences than any of  his five immediate predecessors at the same point in their presidencies, and has taken part in fewer media interviews than any of his recent predecessors. That's according to new research from Towson University professor emerita Martha Joynt Kumar. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Politics & Policy

Biden shied away from news conferences, interviews in Year 1

President Joe Biden has held fewer news conferences than any of his five immediate predecessors at the same point in their presidencies.

4 years ago

Former President Barack Obama speaks during a memorial service for former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at the Smith Center in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022
Politics & Policy

Obama, Biden honor late Senate leader Harry Reid as man ‘who got things done’

Democratic leaders recalled Reid — often laughingly — as a man whose impatience for pleasantries was part of a drive to improve the lives of ordinary Americans.

4 years ago

File photo: Vice President Mike Pence listens after reading the final certification of Electoral College votes cast in November's presidential election during a joint session of Congress after working through the night, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)
NPR
Politics & Policy

The chair of the Jan. 6 panel says the committee will ask Mike Pence to appear

The chair of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack says they'll ask former Vice President Mike Pence to testify by month's end.

4 years ago

About 40 people gathered in Philadelphia’s Thomas Paine Plaza at a candlelight vigil remembering the attacks on the U.S. Capital a year later, on January 6, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Philadelphians gather in vigil on anniversary of insurrection to push for expanded voting rights

The rally in Philadelphia was one of about 150 around the country, organized by a coalition of national groups.

4 years ago

Darius Brown is sworn in as a Delaware State senator at Legislative Hall in Dover in January 2019. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Delaware state senator acquitted of assault charges, still faces ethics inquiry

A Wilmington jury found Delaware State Sen. Darius Brown not guilty of assaulting a woman last year. Senate leaders still plan their own investigation.

4 years ago

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