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2306 episodes transcribedIf any Democratic senator representing a red state was going to survive the midterm elections and continue serving in 2019, it was thought to be Clair...
Ever since scientists created the powerful gene-editing technique Crispr, they have braced for the day when it would be used to produce a genetically...
At the start of 2018, the biggest threat to the Trump presidency was an investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia. As the year draws to a close...
It was never clear what motivated Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, to hand the investigation of Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s for...
Last week, Victorina Morales came forward and said that for the last five years, she had been working as an undocumented immigrant at President Trump’...
Despite repeated warnings over the past two decades, federal law enforcement officials in the United States have ignored the threat of violence from f...
President Barack Obama came very close in 2015 to passing a bipartisan bill to rewrite prison and sentencing laws. Three years later, the same people...
In a humiliating last-minute move, Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain postponed a vote in Parliament on Tuesday on the terms of the country’s divor...
A New York Times investigation has found that the information being collected about us through apps on our smartphones is far more extensive than most...
In the three years that Saudi Arabia, supported by the United States, has been at war with the Houthis in Yemen, very few journalists have been allowe...
Across the country, Democratic candidates for governor and attorney general won seats that had long been held by Republicans. But Republican-controlle...
When China first began experimenting with capitalism in the 1980s, the West was certain the experiment would fail. But two of its assumptions — that g...
From the very beginning, the West was certain that China would not pull off its economic experiment. That certainty came from a set of assumptions abo...
George Bush rode the Reagan revolution to the White House, where he had one of the highest approval ratings of any president, and where he successfull...
President Trump’s former lawyer has pleaded guilty to lying about Mr. Trump’s business ties to Russia and has agreed to cooperate with the special cou...
Many newly elected Democrats in the House have voted to make Representative Nancy Pelosi the next speaker. But that doesn’t necessarily mean she has t...
The special counsel’s office says that Paul Manafort, the president’s former campaign chairman, repeatedly lied to investigators, even after agreeing...
As large groups of Central American migrants approach the U.S. border, the Trump administration is making it more difficult for them to apply for asyl...
With the rise of online retailers like Amazon, consumers’ expectations about the speed of delivery have been transformed. A New York Times investigati...
At nearly every turn, President Trump’s own generals tried to persuade him not to deploy active-duty troops to the United States border with Mexico. S...
