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1579 episodes transcribedAs evacuation orders are lifted, people in Los Angeles are returning to their homes--if their homes survived. But the disaster doesn't end when the fi...
What do Babygirl, Singing in the Rain and Apocalypse Now have in common? They've all been overlooked by Oscar voters.Some Oscar blunders fall into the...
When Donald Trump was sworn in on Monday, he was flanked by billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.Also on the dais was Apple CEO Tim...
President Donald J. Trump began taking decisive steps to implement his agenda hours after being sworn in. In the day since he's once again become Pre...
Donald Trump returns to Washington newly empowered. The Republican party has remade itself in his image. The Supreme Court has granted him sweeping im...
When he ran for office in 2020, President Joe Biden vowed to turn the page on then president Donald Trump. But it's Trump who is returning to the Whit...
Will Rogers State Historic Park is a vast stretch of natural space in the Santa Monica Mountains. It's a treasure to Angelenos. People get married the...
At the time we publish this episode, Israel's government has yet to accept the terms of the long-negotiated and hard fought ceasefire deal announced y...
Confirmation hearings for Trump's cabinet picks are in full swing on Capitol Hill with a number of them appearing before the Senate this week.Nominees...
On a shelf in his office at CIA headquarters, Director Bill Burns keeps a tiny scaled model of a house. It's the house in Kabul, Afghanistan, where Al...
"Wildfire" is the word we tend to use when we talk about what Los Angeles has been dealing with the past week. But Lori Moore-Merrell, the U.S. Fire A...
From handling crises in the rail and airline industries to overseeing the distribution of billions of dollars in infrastructure funding, Transportatio...
While the debate over homeless policy plays out across the country, Project HOME has offered resources to homeless people in Philadelphia for decades....
Jimmy Carter's four years in the White House were largely defined by an event that took place halfway through his term. On November 4th, 1979 Irani...
Extremely dry conditions coupled with high winds have led to an explosive wildfire situation in southern California. Multiple fires have erupted acro...
In Washington, D.C., the federal government is closed – as are most of the schools in the area. That's because the first major snow storm in about thr...
What happened on January 6, 2021? There have been news reports, documentaries and witness testimonies all trying to put that question to rest. But des...
Billionaire Elon Musk begins 2025 as one of the most influential people in the United States. He's developed a close relationship with President-elect...
As president, Jimmy Carter promised always to tell the American people the truth about what was happening in the country. We'll look at how that affec...
New Orleans is still reeling from the New Year's Day attack that killed 14 people on Bourbon Street. We ask a counterterrorism expert how attacks like...
