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The Supreme Court has a busy agenda as it begins its new term in October. We take a look at some of the key cases that are set to be argued & decided,...
Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley has one of this election cycle's last remaining toss-up districts. Latino voters make up a majority of voters in Allentow...
Voters are already voting in this year's midterms. With Election Day just five weeks away, we take a look at how things are going so far in an electio...
As one founder of the movement described it to NPR, the Freedom Caucus was "MAGA before MAGA." The Republican lawmakers pushed their party to be more...
The podcast hits the road and heads to Seattle to talk about the big issues and races our reporters are watching. This episode was recorded before a l...
Tam, Miles and Mara answer questions about the midterms, the state of politics today, and more in this special episode recorded before a live virtual...
Angered by what he perceived as negative coverage, President Trump barred journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House grounds. Thos...
Advertising in this fall's midterms is increasing, and so too is the money being spent to get those ads on the air. We look at how the parties are rai...
President Trump heads to the United Nations General Assembly this week as the organization welcomes world leaders to discuss their work. We preview wh...
Some Republican candidates are using inflammatory and anti-Muslim rhetoric in their campaign ads and public statements. We look at what they're saying...
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Evangelists say AI saves time and increases productivity. Doomsayers argue AI will destroy humanity. While the truth may be somewhere in between, lawm...
Voters tell us they're frustrated with the economy, that costs are too high, and that neither Democrats nor Republicans seem able to solve their probl...
Like other Republican-led states, Missouri heeded President Trump's call to redraw congressional maps to try and create new, safe seats for Republican...
September 11th presented a new kind of national security threat, so a new national security architecture was built to confront it. Has it worked? Are...
We reflect on how U.S. domestic and foreign policy have changed since, and continue to be influenced by, the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.This epi...
The activist is credited for increasing support of conservative causes among young voters, but nobody has had a similar influence since Kirk was kille...
After campaigning on a platform to curtail illegal immigration to the United States, President Trump has shifted federal immigration policy to severel...
