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1649 episodes transcribedAyman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda, was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan over the weekend. For years, al-Zawahiri was Osama...
Dee Davis remembers watching his grandmother float by in a canoe during the 1957 flood that hit Whitesburg, Ky. The water crested at nearly 15 feet ba...
You may have never heard the phrase abortion doula, but for years they have been working to support people navigating the process and experience of en...
This week, Pope Francis has been in Canada, on what he calls a "Pilgrimage of Penance". He's been going around the country to apologize for the Cathol...
The BA.5 variant is the most dominant strain of COVID-19 in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's highly tran...
Residential hotels used to play a huge role in the American housing landscape, providing flexible accommodation for anyone who needed it, from the ric...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of the universe that have stunned both scientists and the public. But for more than twenty years be...
Food, gas, rent — prices are climbing across the board. As inflation hit a 40-year high last month, millions of Americans are adjusting their spending...
This week dozens of family members of victims of the Uvalde Texas school shooting showed up at the town's first school board meeting since a gunman ki...
This week the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol wrapped up its first set of public hearings. The final...
Record high temperatures have wreaked havoc around the world this week. In Southern England, railway tracks bent from the heat. In China, the roof til...
Talking about abortion can be difficult even among adults. So how do you talk to kids about it? We asked listeners to send us their questions — and br...
How serious is the U.S. about investigating Russian war crimes in Ukraine? They put Eli Rosenbaum on the case. He's best known for directing the Depar...
Interest in birth control and emergency contraception has surged since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion. But safe and reliable...
The televised probe into the mob attack on the Capitol has dropped plenty of bombshells as insider testimonies pull back the curtain on the efforts of...
Public health experts know what it takes to get a disease outbreak under control - widespread testing and treatment, and vaccines made available to co...
Your vote is secret. But the fact that you voted in an election is typically public record.So some people who falsely believe the 2020 election was st...
In a tweet sent on December 19, 2021, former President Trump issued what Democrats now say was a "clarion call" to his supporters. "Big protest in D.C...
A new omicron subvariant is now the most dominant strain of COVID-19 in the U.S. It's called BA.5 — and it appears to evade neutralizing antibodies, m...
Mass shooting deaths represent just a fraction of people killed by gun violence in America, and more than half of all gun deaths are suicides. The num...
