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1851 episodes transcribedThere's a growing fight in Hollywood over some of the biggest characters on screen, like Tony Soprano, Daenerys Targaryen and Harry Potter. All featur...
New research from the Aspen Economic Strategy Group argues that the subsidies-or-no-subsidies approach to the Affordable Care Act debate is too narrow...
Students are using AI tools more than ever. An Angelo State University professor designed a way to figure out if his students were using artificial in...
Fifty years ago, special education in America was born.In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the landmark law known today as the Individuals with Disa...
Roughly 80,000 people of Somali descent now live in Minnesota. The vast majority of them are American citizens.This week, President Trump attacked Som...
President Trump is purging the immigration court system. About 140 immigration judges have been fired by the administration or resigned. Meanwhile, th...
More than 80 people have now been killed by U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats.There are growing questions about an order to kill two of those peopl...
At the recent Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, summit - which was attended by the U.S. Secretary of Health and the Vice President - the agenda sho...
When the Missouri legislature began to redraw maps mid-decade, it reminded a reporter of a very specific movie scene. The film was Air Bud, and althou...
No matter how you measure it, there is a lot of parking in the U.S. According to some estimates there are as many as six parking spaces for every car....
From building homes to ushering theater-goers to re-enacting medieval history for middle-schoolers – yes, you read that right – acts of volunteerism h...
By the midpoint of 2025, the U.S. was on track to set a new yearly record in the number of reported data breaches.That’s according to data compiled by...
Facing the threat of a potential military court martial and possible questions from the FBI, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona spoke to NPR's Scot...
The CDC recently rewrote its vaccine guidance to suggest shots might cause autism, renewing false claims about vaccines and causing anxiety among pare...
New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani built a coalition of voters who were engaged by his charisma and his campaign’s focus on key issues such as...
When President Trump nominated Linda McMahon as education secretary, he told her to put herself out of a job. She moved one step closer to that this w...
Caregiving services for seniors can easily cost more each year than what the average American makes. And health insurers, both government and private,...
Activists in Chicago have been tracking federal immigration enforcement agents' movements, following their cars and alerting neighbors with whistles....
President Trump is deepening the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia, despite the government coming under fire for human right abuses, despite the con...
Maine Family Planning clinics treat STDs, bronchitis and tick bites. Because they also provide abortions, they've been hit by a new federal law that c...
