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1579 episodes transcribedHouse Republicans have to get their spending bill passed by Friday to avoid a government shutdown. They can likely afford to lose just one vote. And t...
Many migrants in Mexico journey north to the U.S. border by riding on top of freight trains. It's a dangerous trip: migrants have been kidnapped by ca...
It's been a little more than a week since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Vice President J...
Like a lot of economists, Mark Zandi, with Moody's Analytics, thinks President Trump's across-the-board tariffs are a bad idea. Saying, "Tariffs, broa...
A hundred minutes — that's how long President Trump had the floor — literally — last night.A hundred minutes he used to lay out his agenda, his grieva...
After the Trump-Zelenskyy blow-up on Friday, European leaders held emergency talks in London to put together a roadmap to peace. Then, on Tuesday, Eur...
People who work for the federal court system don't have the same kinds of job protections that most other Americans do.A nearly year-long NPR investig...
Unlike any other religious leader around the world, the leader of the world's one billion Catholics is also the leader of a sovereign nation. And Pope...
On Tuesday, President Trump will address Congress and the nation in a major speech, where he'll sum up what he's accomplished in his first month. And...
On Tuesday, 21 DOGE employees resigned. NPR spoke to one of them who says she felt the new administration was causing "harm to the American people." A...
On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to meet President Donald Trump at the White House.On the agenda — a deal for Ukraine t...
President Trump's calls for the U.S. to take over Greenland have sparked alarm and outrage.Denmark, which is responsible for Greenland's security, rec...
On Friday, Donald Trump fired Chairman of the Joint Chief's of Staff CQ Brown, along with several other top Pentagon officials. Now, Senator Jack Reed...
President Donald Trump's tariffs and comments about turning Canada into the 51st state have tested U.S. relations with the country. One example is the...
"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...
