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2135 episodes transcribedMost of the Department of Homeland Security has been without funding for two months, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement got billions of dollars f...
NPR reporters observed focus groups of 13 Georgia voters who backed President Joe Biden in 2020 and President Donald Trump in 2024. We discuss what th...
A crowded governor’s race in California got a little less crowded when Democrat Eric Swalwell ended his campaign — and resigned his seat in Congress —...
President Trump launched new attacks at Pope Leo XIV over the weekend, calling the religious leader “Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons,” in a soc...
Negotiations with Iran over the weekend ended without a deal. In response, President Trump announced that the U.S. military would effectively close th...
Leaders in the Make America Great Again, or MAGA, coalition are pushing back against President Trump’s decisions regarding the Iran war. We discuss th...
Vice President JD Vance was in Hungary this week campaigning for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who faces a tough path to reelection. We discuss why the...
In the last day and a half, President Trump threatened to wipe out Iranian “civilization,” then announced a two-week ceasefire. We discuss what we kno...
Voting ends April 21 in Virginia's special election that will decide whether the state redraws its congressional districts to favor Democrats. We disc...
President Trump held a press conference at the White House Monday. He discussed the latest developments in the war with Iran, as well as other topics....
It was a particularly busy week in politics. We discuss President Trump’s prime-time address about the Iran war, Pam Bondi’s exit as attorney general,...
President Trump signed an executive order that seeks to create federal lists of eligible voters and directs the U.S. Postal Service not to send mail-i...
In a televised, primetime address, President Trump discussed the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, and said the war would be over "shortly." We analyze what...
At issue in the case is whether children born in the United States to people in the country without legal status should receive U.S. citizenship under...
The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Wednesday in Trump v. Barbara, a case challenging President Trump’s executive order denying citizenshi...
There was a glimmer of hope for the Department of Homeland Security after the Senate passed a funding bill early Friday morning. Then the House reject...
This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, lacks many of the big-name conservative stars typically in attendance, but there’s stil...
Thursday marks the 41st day since funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed, and congressional negotiators seem to be at a stalemate. We...
President Trump began the week with an announcement that administration officials were having “very good and productive conversations” with Iranian of...
Democrats are hoping for an upset in Alaska’s Senate race. U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat, is trying to unseat Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sulli...
