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1473 episodes transcribedInside Ukraine, millions of people have been displaced, with millions more living in increasingly dire conditions. In the city of Maruipol, hundreds o...
Senate confirmation hearings begin next week for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. If she is confirmed she will be the first Black wo...
It's been one year since a white man opened fire at three spas in the Atlanta area killing eight people — six of whom were Asian women. Since the begi...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants America to help impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine. The U.S. favors other avenues of support, providing w...
The pandemic created a spike in demand for housing that sent real estate prices through the roof. Which means a lot of Americans could no longer affor...
In the U.S., with key COVID metrics trending rapidly downward, the pandemic's third spring is already looking very different. But concerns remain abou...
The scenes of devastation in Mariupol, a southeastern port city in Ukraine, are increasingly reflected in cities across the country as Russian forces...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that could impose fifteen years in prison on anyone who publishes or broadcasts what the Russian gov...
The movement to ban books from public school reading lists is not new, but lately it's been gaining momentum throughout the country. In part, because...
Governor Greg Abbot has directed the state's Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate certain gender-affirming care as possible chi...
More than two million people have fled Ukraine since Russia attacked two weeks ago - at least half of them children. It's a dangerous journey for anyo...
Throughout the pandemic, the The Federal Bureau of Prisons has maintained that they have a plan to keep the pandemic under control. But federal priso...
In what the U.N. refugee agency calls the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, more than a million Ukrainians have fled their...
President Richard Nixon has a plan: He wants to go to China. The only problem? The U.S. and China have had zero contact since the Communist Party took...
There's a battle raging over the telling and teaching of Black history in the United States. Much of that fight has been playing out in schools. Schoo...
Just one week into his presidency, Donald Trump announced an executive order banning people from several Muslim-majority countries from entering the U...
It's been exactly one week since Russia invaded Ukraine, which means one week since Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, became a wartime preside...
Doctors in Texas have been warning that the state's abortion law known as SB 8 would make it harder for them to treat medical crises and would endange...
The latest CDC guidance puts nearly 70% of the U.S. population in low or medium risk areas, and residents are no longer expected to wear a mask. In re...
Russia's war against Ukraine rages on, but for now Russian troops appear to have been met with a level of resistance they were not prepared for. While...
