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1845 episodes transcribedOne of the narratives at the heart of President Trump's political movement is this: American society is dominated by a shadowy group of elites, and th...
Earlier this week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy testified on Capitol Hill, where he thanked Congress for recently approving $12.5 billion dolla...
It's been over three months since President Trump announced very big across-the-board tariffs on imports from nearly every territory on Earth–includin...
It's not just Texas. In the past couple of weeks, communities all around the country have been hit with torrential rains and deadly flash flooding. Ex...
President Trump has made some big shifts in U.S. policy on Russia's war with Ukraine lately. In the course of two weeks, Trump halted and reinstated w...
It's been a year since the assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania and the motivations of the shooter are still unclear.The U...
On July 2nd, Sean Combs was acquitted of the most serious charges he faced: racketeering and sex trafficking. He was found guilty on two counts of tra...
All across the U.S., there are aging oil and natural gas wells no longer in use.A lot of them don't have anyone on the hook to seal them up. Some esti...
Israel bans international journalists from independent access to Gaza. But NPR's Anas Baba is from Gaza, and in the 21 months he has been reporting on...
It's been nearly a week since devastating flooding tore through Kerr County, Texas killing more than a hundred people.Now, after unimaginable tragedy,...
The total fertility rate is a small number with big consequences.It measures how many babies, on average, each woman will have over her lifetime. And...
Imagine standing in water shallow enough to just barely hit the soles of your feet. And then it rises so fast that in just about ten minutes, it's up...
If you're a parent, decisions about vaccines have gotten a lot more confusing recently. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s health department is walking back lon...
Independence Day means different things to each of us. On this 249th birthday for America, we spend some time looking at different definitions of Amer...
President Trump put essentially his entire domestic agenda in one bill.It would significantly cut clean energy incentives, Medicaid and food assistanc...
This summer marks 80 years since the end of World War II when Allied forces liberated Nazi-occupied Europe, and also began to discover the horrific sc...
The massive tax and spending bill central to President Trump's agenda is one step closer to reality.After weeks of negotiations and 49 consecutive vot...
The massive budget bill that Senate Republicans are debating pays for some of its tax cuts by slashing hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid spe...
A number of Supreme Court decisions handed down this term have expanded the power of the president while limiting the power of the courts. How has thi...
Although President Trump launched air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities, the administration has chosen a different path when dealing with Kim...
