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A New York Judge has determined that former President Donald Trump and his adult sons committed fraud and canceled the Trump Organization's business certification. Congress is running out of time to pass a funding bill that would avoid a partial ...

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09.29.2023 The News Roundup For September 29, 2023 A New York Judge has determined that former President Donald Trump and his adult sons committed fraud and canceled the Trump Organization's business certification. Congress is running out of time to pass a funding bill that would avoid a partial ...
09.28.2023 A Closer Look At The Second 2024 GOP Primary Debate Seven Republicans qualified for last night's presidential primary debate: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and South ...
09.27.2023 Dessa On 'Bury the Lede' And Making Pop Music Through Pain What music have you turned to during hard times? That's the question Dessa's latest album hopes to answer. The award-winning rapper, singer, writer, and podcast (and sometimes 1A) host has been in the game for a while. She came up ...
09.26.2023 How To Add Some More Spice To Your Life And Diet Chances are you uses spices everyday. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, spice consumption per capita among Americans has more than tripled since 1966. But spices aren't just about taste. They can also be beneficial to our health. One ...
09.25.2023 Who Do We Think Gets To Think About The Roman Empire? How much do you think about the Roman Empire? It's a question that men the world over were asked by friends and loved ones who use the video-sharing app TikTok in recent days. A recent viral trend asserts that dudes ...
09.22.2023 The News Roundup For September 22, 2023 House Republicans are struggling to agree on a temporary spending bill which would prevent a government shutdown at the end of the month. Democrats have made no offers to help House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The Biden administration announced the creation ...
09.21.2023 Rory Stewart On 'How Not To Be A Politician' The United Kingdom has had five prime ministers since it voted to leave the European Union in 2016. Rory Stewart once came close to being one of them. But he decided to quit party politics in 2019. He now enjoys ...
09.20.2023 What We Get Wrong About Forgiveness In June 2015, nine people died at Charleston's Emanuel A.M.E. Church, victims of a racist shooter's rampage. Some of the victims' relatives publicly forgave the murderer, including Chris Singleton, whose mother, Sharonda Coleman Singleton, was killed. Philosopher Myisha Cherry was ...
09.19.2023 In Good Health: When A Popular Decongestant Doesn't Work Last week, an FDA advisory panel unanimously agreed that Phenylephrine, a common ingredient in many over-the-counter decongestant medications, is ineffective. The decision could affect hundreds of products including Sudafed PE, NyQuil Severe Cold and Flu, and Benadryl Allergy Plus Congestion. ...
09.18.2023 Google's Power And The Biggest Tech Monopoly Trial In 25 Years It's hard to deny Google's power when it comes to the internet. In the Merriam-Webster dictionary, "google" is even a verb. The U.S. Department of Justice wants to do something about that. It's taking on Google in the biggest tech ...
09.16.2023 The News Roundup For September 15, 2023 Speaker Kevin McCarthy directed the House of Representatives to open an impeachment inquiry over the business dealings of President Joe Biden's family this week. And on Thursday Biden's son Hunter was indicted on three gun charges. American auto workers are ...
09.14.2023 1A Movie Club: The Best Of The Bad The 1995 film "Showgirls" starring Elizabeth Berkley was one of the largest commercial failures of its time. With a budget of $45 million, (nearly $90 million in 2023 dollars), the film ended up losing more than $8 million and was ...
09.13.2023 Why Panic Attacks Happen And How To Prevent Them Matt Gutman has spent decades in front of cameras and microphones as a newscaster, reporting on current events across the globe. His calm, cool demeanor belied his internal struggle with a lifetime of panic. Matt is one of many Americans ...
09.12.2023 The Diversity Problem With Corporate America This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in higher education. That means colleges and universities can no longer consider a student applicant's race when building their student bodies. The decision was a victory for Edward Blum, the ...
09.11.2023 How Hawaii Is Keeping History And Culture In Mind As It Rebuilds Recovery and rebuilding efforts are underway in Hawaii a month after the deadly fires that swept through Maui. Some 115 people were killed and thousands were displaced by the fires which began in the town of Lahaina. Along with the ...
09.08.2023 The News Roundup For September 9, 2023 Another government shutdown is looming as the calendar shifts to the month of September. Congress has until the 30th to settle up on a short-term funding bill that would keep the lights on in Washington. Special Counsel Jack Smith is ...
09.07.2023 The Benefits Of Birdnesting After Divorce Some parents who are no longer married are trying a strategy called birdnesting. It's an arrangement where children remain in their family home while the parents cycle in and out of the house. The hope for this approach is that ...
09.06.2023 The Passion And Politics Of Pickleball Over the past three years, the number of Americans who reported playing pickleball went from 5 million to 36.5 million according to the Association of Pickleball Professionals. As the sport builds in popularity among amateur players, professional pickleball is also ...
09.05.2023 What Is Cultivated Meat? Cultivated meat is green-lit in the U.S. That's meat grown in a lab. Two food technology companies — UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat — are letting people try their cultivated meat. But you can't grab any off grocery shelves quite ...
09.04.2023 Best Of: Spending Time In 'Your Mama's Kitchen' Whether your mom was a natural cook or a reluctant one. Or if your other parent was the one throwing down in the kitchen, food and the place where it's made live inside of us long after we've eaten. What ...
09.01.2023 The News Roundup For September 1, 2023 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze when answering questions asked by reporters about whether he would run for re-election. It's the second such incident involving the Kentucky senator. It has sparked discussions about the age at which politicians should step ...
08.31.2023 The 'New' Homeschoolers The pandemic forced many families into homeschooling — and a surprising number of them are sticking with it.In the 2021 and 2022 school year, homeschool enrollment rose by 30 percent. That's according to research from Stanford University and the Urban ...
08.30.2023 What's Happening In Afghanistan Two Years After The U.S. Left? On Aug. 30, 2021, the U.S. completed its full withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, bringing the 20-year-long war to an end. Two weeks earlier, on Aug. 15, with fewer troops to block their path, the Taliban took over Kabul. Since ...
08.29.2023 Is Rent Control The Answer To Rising Evictions? The pandemic made monthly rent payments soar, rising 15 percent between 2020 and 2022. Evictions are also on the rise since the pandemic, with some cities seeing filings increases by as much as 50 percent, according to Princeton University's Eviction ...
08.28.2023 Best Of: Seeking Thrills And Staying Safe On Roller Coasters While you may not be a fan of the heart pumping, adrenaline boosting feeling of a roller coaster's twists and turns, for others, it's the best part of the warmer months or even a core memory of their childhood. But ...
08.25.2023 The News Roundup For August 25, 2023 The racketeering case against Donald Trump and his co-conspirators in Fulton County, Georgia, progressed this week. Former New York City Mayor and Trump ally Rudy Giuliani surrendered to authorities this week at the Atlanta jail where the defendants in the ...
08.24.2023 How Cable News Changes American Politics And Culture For more than 80 years, cable television has been at the center of American politics and culture. While streaming platforms have driven many families to cut the cord, there are still more than 72 million active cable subscribers according to ...
08.23.2023 Best Of: The Human Labor Powering AI Engines As anxieties over automation mount, AI is already responsible for the employment of millions of workers globally. From chatbots to text-to-image generators, AI relies on human workers labeling and annotating the millions of images and words it references. But the ...
08.22.2023 'Strange Planet' Satirizes The Absurdities Of Everyday Life The wildly popular webcomic "Strange Planet" has attracted millions of followers by pointing out absurdities in everyday life. Beings on Strange Planet live in a place very similar to Earth and behave very similarly to humans. They just talk about ...
08.21.2023 What We Know About Trump's Latest Criminal Indictment Former President Donald Trump is facing his fourth criminal indictment — this time for attempting to overturn election results in Georgia. Trump has denied the charges, but the alleged crimes facing the presidential candidate are piling up. We talk about ...
08.18.2023 The News Roundup For August 18, 2023 Former President Donald Trump was indicted again this week. He's been charged alongside 18 other co-defendants by a grand jury in Georgia for conspiring to unlawfully keep himself in office in the wake of the 2020 election under the state's ...
08.17.2023 Plugged In: Local Governments And The IRA The Inflation Reduction Act is one year old this week, but what has it actually accomplished? That depends on where you are. While the law provides billions of dollars for the U.S. to transition away from fossil fuels, it's up ...
08.16.2023 Spending Time In 'Your Mama's Kitchen' Whether your mom was a natural cook or a reluctant one. Or if your other parent was the one throwing down in the kitchen, food and the place where it's made live inside of us long after we've eaten. What ...
08.15.2023 Plugged In: How The IRA Is Changing Housing In America The average American home generates roughly 10 thousand kilowatt hours of electricity every year according to the Energy Information Administration. Millions of Americans are transitioning to solar energy. A Pew Research poll last year found 8 percent of households have ...
08.14.2023 Plugged In: How The IRA Is Changing America It's been nearly a year since the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 narrowly passed. President Joe Biden's sweeping climate bill has high hopes for fighting climate change, including a pledge to cut U.S. emissions in half by 2030. Some initiatives ...
08.11.2023 The News Roundup For August 11, 2023 President Joe Biden is keeping his monument streak going, this time selecting more than 404,000 hectares of land near the Grand Canyon for protection. The move is welcome news for activists and members of Indigenous nations in the area. It ...
08.10.2023 The 1A Record Club Celebrates 50 Years Of Hip-Hop Hip-hop is many things – unapologetic, lyrical, rhythmic, and above all, ubiquitous. Since its nebulous "creation" at a party in the Bronx in 1973, hip-hop has become one of the world's most popular genres and cultural expressions. It's also evolved ...
08.09.2023 In Good Health: COVID's Summer Surge COVID is surging across the globe for the fourth consecutive summer. In the United States, the latest tracking data from the CDC shows a 12 percent rise in hospitalizations due to the virus. Dr. Paul Offit is the director of ...
08.08.2023 The Debate Over Deep-Sea Mining If you sank deep into the ocean, where the light no longer reaches, you would see, sitting on the seabed floor, nodules that look just like unassuming rocks. Those grayish clusters are actually filled with vital metals like cobalt, nickel, ...
08.07.2023 The Issue Of Religious Public Charter Schools In June, a state board voted 3-to-2 to approve plans for St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Catholic School. It's named after the seventh-century patron saint of the internet. And it would be the first publicly-funded religious charter school in the ...
08.04.2023 The News Roundup For August 4, 2023 Former President Donald Trump was indicted again this week, this time on four charges related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 220 election. Moscow's business district was hit by a drone strike this week, the second attack ...
08.03.2023 1A Remaking America: Guiding Growth In Up-And-Coming Cities The U.S. population has grown by more than 20 million people since 2010. But where those new Americans end up is not even across the board. The populations of half of all counties in the U.S. shrank from 2010 to ...
08.02.2023 How US Abortion Politics Jeopardize A Global AIDS Relief Program About 20 years ago, Congress pretty much agreed on one thing: PEPFAR. President George W. Bush introduced the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in his 2003 State of the Union address. Since then, it's been renewed with little fuss ...
08.01.2023 Best Of: In Search Of The Elusive Lesbian Bar In the 1980s there were roughly 200 lesbian bars across the country. Today, there are less than 30, according to The Lesbian Bar Project. While many gay bars cater to men, spaces for queer women have dwindled. Two years ago, ...
07.31.2023 How Extreme Heat Affects Our Mental Health Extreme temperatures remind us just how much heat can affect our physical health in dangerous and sometimes deadly ways. More than 600 people die each year in the U.S. from heat-related illnesses. But emerging research shows that hot days can ...
07.29.2023 The News Roundup For July 28, 2023 A Congressional hearing on UAPs yielded some surprising information this week. Three military veterans appeared before lawmakers on Wednesday, one of whom alleged that the U.S. had recovered "non-human biologics" from supposed UAP crash sights. Overseas, the situation surrounding the ...
07.27.2023 Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, And The Future Of Gaming Microsoft's intention to purchase video game developer Activision Blizzard was first announced in January 2022. The Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against the deal, saying it would harm competition in the gaming market. That case went to trial — ...
07.26.2023 The Fraught Future Of Volunteer Firefighting Firefighters and fire departments perform a critical service in our communities, including responding to medical emergencies and helping mitigate the effects of natural disasters. But more than 70 percent of fire departments are staffed by volunteers, according to the U.S. ...
07.25.2023 What Nutrition Labels Really Tell Us About Our Food Many of us have likely felt confused by food labels before. But nutrition facts can offer important information about what we're consuming. There are several efforts underway to make the labels on our food more clear for consumers. Earlier this ...
07.24.2023 The 1A Movie Club Sees 'Barbie' For this month's edition of the 1A Movie Club, we're seeing "Barbie." The film's star-studded cast includes Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, and Will Ferrell — just to name a few. There's even a Barbie album with ...

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The News Roundup For September 29, 2023

A Closer Look At The Second 2024 GOP Primary Debate

Dessa On 'Bury the Lede' And Making Pop Music Through Pain

How To Add Some More Spice To Your Life And Diet

Who Do We Think Gets To Think About The Roman Empire?

The News Roundup For September 22, 2023

Rory Stewart On 'How Not To Be A Politician'

What We Get Wrong About Forgiveness

In Good Health: When A Popular Decongestant Doesn't Work

Google's Power And The Biggest Tech Monopoly Trial In 25 Years

The News Roundup For September 15, 2023

1A Movie Club: The Best Of The Bad

Why Panic Attacks Happen And How To Prevent Them

The Diversity Problem With Corporate America

How Hawaii Is Keeping History And Culture In Mind As It Rebuilds

The News Roundup For September 9, 2023

The Benefits Of Birdnesting After Divorce

The Passion And Politics Of Pickleball

What Is Cultivated Meat?

Best Of: Spending Time In 'Your Mama's Kitchen'

The News Roundup For September 1, 2023

The 'New' Homeschoolers

What's Happening In Afghanistan Two Years After The U.S. Left?

Is Rent Control The Answer To Rising Evictions?

Best Of: Seeking Thrills And Staying Safe On Roller Coasters

The News Roundup For August 25, 2023

How Cable News Changes American Politics And Culture

Best Of: The Human Labor Powering AI Engines

'Strange Planet' Satirizes The Absurdities Of Everyday Life

What We Know About Trump's Latest Criminal Indictment

The News Roundup For August 18, 2023

Plugged In: Local Governments And The IRA

Spending Time In 'Your Mama's Kitchen'

Plugged In: How The IRA Is Changing Housing In America

Plugged In: How The IRA Is Changing America

The News Roundup For August 11, 2023

The 1A Record Club Celebrates 50 Years Of Hip-Hop

In Good Health: COVID's Summer Surge

The Debate Over Deep-Sea Mining

The Issue Of Religious Public Charter Schools

The News Roundup For August 4, 2023

1A Remaking America: Guiding Growth In Up-And-Coming Cities

How US Abortion Politics Jeopardize A Global AIDS Relief Program

Best Of: In Search Of The Elusive Lesbian Bar

How Extreme Heat Affects Our Mental Health

The News Roundup For July 28, 2023

Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, And The Future Of Gaming

The Fraught Future Of Volunteer Firefighting

What Nutrition Labels Really Tell Us About Our Food

The 1A Movie Club Sees 'Barbie'

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