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1525 episodes transcribed"The Department of Education is a big con job." That's just one of the things President Trump has said about one of the most high profile departments...
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. Three years ago Russian troops poured over Ukraine's border...
Is the United States headed toward autocracy?That's a question prompted by a steady stream of executive orders seeking to consolidate power in the Whi...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, along withother top officials spent much of Tuesday weighing whether to use her power to remove New York City Mayor Er...
An Israeli delegation is in Cairo to hash out details for the second phase of a ceasefire deal with Hamas. Under the first phase of the deal, Hamas ag...
Across the country and around the world, tens of thousands of federal workers face uncertainty amid an unprecedented reduction and restructuring of th...
There are at least two million people in America who have thoughts and ideas they can't put into words. People who have had strokes or traumatic brain...
President Donald Trump is now chairman of The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Trump replaced 18 members of the board with a...
Panama has been looking for solutions to a long-term problem. Every time a ship passes through the Panama Canal, more than 50 million gallons of fresh...
The Gaza Strip – ground zero of Israel's war with Hamas – is only about twice the size of Washington, DC. It has about 25 miles of coastline along the...
President Trump's blizzard of executive orders has run into a snowplow of legal challenges. There are dozens of cases challenging the White House's ac...
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is quickly expanding its reach through the federal government.It recently accessed systems at the Cent...
Project 2025, is a 900-plus page blueprint for a conservative President. It was unveiled in the spring of 2023, well before Donald Trump had won the r...
For centuries, scholars only had one version of the life of Margery Kempe, an English mystic who lived in the 14th and 15th centuries — until a ping p...
A lot of labels have been applied to Trump's foreign policy approach. America First, Isolationist, transactional, imperialist, protectionist. "I'm a n...
As President Trump dismantles Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) practices at the federal level, organizations across the country are also shifting...
President Trump floated two stunning ideas about Gaza on Tuesday. The first is he said the U.S. would take over the territory, which has been devastat...
In Washington these days, Elon Musk seems to be everywhere.In the 15 days Donald Trump has been back in the White House, Musk and his Department of Go...
The Panama Canal has sat at the center of global trade for more than a century, connecting two oceans. The things Americans use every day pass through...
Most presidents want as much power as they can get. And it's not unusual to see them claim authority that they don't, in the end, actually have. We sa...
