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1636 episodes transcribedThe Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that threatened the existence of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on the l...
Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had a tenure marked by a relentless series of challenges. He served through the U.S....
Not too long ago, crypto was being trumpeted as the next big thing. Celebrities were getting in on it, including Kim Kardashian, Matt Damon and Tom...
When the video game Mortal Kombat released in 1992, it took arcades — and later the American home — by storm. Thirty years on, the franchise is still...
The federal government will shut down on October 1st if Congress doesn't pass funding legislation for the next fiscal year before then. That looks inc...
The U.S. government and 17 states sued Amazon on Tuesday in a landmark case that could take down the tech giant.The Federal Trade Commission and a bip...
President Biden made history on Tuesday when he joined members of the United Auto Workers union on a picket line outside Detroit as they strike for be...
146 days.That's how long it took for the WGA to reach a tentative agreement with major Hollywood studios.WGA leadership is scheduled to vote Tuesday o...
As president Joe Biden's campaign for a second term gets underway, a slew of recent polls show that voters have concerns about his age. At the end of...
Close to five thousand people have died in federal prison since 2009.There are 100 federal prisons across the U.S. An NPR investigation found that a...
New York City has become an unlikely battleground for migrant rights.The city, like others, has struggled to deal with the arrival of tens of thousand...
On Tuesday, five Americans detained for years in Iran stepped off a plane back onto US soil. They were released in the US-Iran prisoner swap that also...
The state of California has filed a massive lawsuit against oil companies. The charge is that oil companies knew they were causing climate change, an...
On Monday, five Americans who were imprisoned in Iran, stepped off a plane in Doha, Qatar. They were freed as part of a prisoner exchange deal between...
Since becoming Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy has faced the constant threat that members of the right wing of his own Republic...
If you're over a certain age and you love movies, when you think "movie critic", you probably picture Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and their popular TV...
It can be hard to see how big government policies have a direct effect on an individual's experience. But it was easy to measure the difference made b...
The president of the United Auto Workers says the union is planning to carry out sudden, strategic and partial strikes at plants should contract talks...
Right now it seems like people all around us are testing positive for COVID. But for the most part, they are not getting seriously ill. The Food and D...
When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2019, both countries were in a different position. Russia had yet to...
