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1847 episodes transcribedSix years after his death in prison, sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continues to dominate the news.A House committee has released a suggestive note sent...
Chris Hugues has what he calls an interesting job.He’s an assistant operator at a wastewater treatment plant in Cavendish, Vermont.On a recent August...
Over the weekend, President Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as a character from the war film “Apocalypse Now” and, in that same post, se...
President Trump has vowed to abolish the Department of Education. He’s pressured schools to end DEI initiatives and protections for transgender studen...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a scathing line of questioning from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Senate on Thursday.Kennedy is a vaccin...
The one thing certain about the COVID vaccine right now is that everything about it is changing.The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the...
“Chief diversity officer” was once Corporate America’s hottest job. Now corporate America has retreated from DEI and slashed thousands of jobs. So whe...
So many movies are made about the beginning of a relationship. That first spark of attraction. That first kiss. The new dark comedy “The Roses” is abo...
The Trump Administration has made significant changes to the departments in charge of public health. So what does that mean for the health of average...
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans twenty years ago this week, leaving a trail of destruction across the city and the Gulf Coast. NPR journalists were...
Before he entered politics, most Americans knew Donald Trump as an entertainer. As the host of the hit show “The Apprentice” he was catapulted to a ne...
The war in Gaza is approaching the 2 year mark. As it does, Israel continues to launch new attacks on a territory that is already in ruins. And the hu...
What happens when the federal government owns part of a company? That’s one of MANY questions about federal policy right now, as the Trump Administrat...
For over two weeks, members of the National Guard have been walking the streets of Washington, D.C. -- alongside federal law enforcement and local pol...
The Trump administration is deploying a new strategy to speed up deportations. Government lawyers are asking immigration judges to dismiss on-going ca...
OpenAI founder Sam Altman floated the idea of an AI bubble, an MIT report found that 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing and tech sto...
Normally, foreign policy summits between world leaders involve painstaking planning and organization days and weeks in advance. The hectic and last mi...
The people of Northern Gaza are starving. That’s according to an official declaration by a United Nations-backed group of experts, who comprise the In...
In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, leaving more than 1300 people dead and becoming the most expensive hurricane in histor...
President Trump says the administration’s takeover of DC is making life safer. But many of the city’s residents and business owners are questioning th...
