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2148 episodes transcribedIran and the United States have exchanged fire in the Strait of Hormuz in the last couple days as the U.S. military tries to provide safe passage to c...
Congress has been unable to reach an agreement over the reauthorization of a surveillance program the intelligence community says is vital for spying...
President Trump and his allies seem to be — once again — seeking retribution from people who have gotten on the president’s bad side. We discuss the J...
Florida lawmakers have approved a new congressional district map designed to flip four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives from Democrat contro...
In a landmark ruling Wednesday, the Supreme Court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act. We discuss what the ruling could mean for Black representa...
President Trump has suggested the United States “buy” the struggling Spirit Airlines. We discuss other ways Trump has blurred the lines between govern...
The Justice Department has charged 31-year-old Cole Allen with trying to assassinate President Trump during the White House Correspondents’ Associatio...
President Trump, Vice President Vance, and members of the administration were evacuated from the Washington Hilton Saturday night after shots were fir...
It was another busy week in politics. We discuss the Justice Department’s decision to drop its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell,...
The Justice Department has charged the Southern Poverty Law Center, a prominent civil rights organization, with several financial crimes. We discuss w...
Virginia voters narrowly approved a ballot measure to redraw congressional district lines, improving Democrats’ odds at winning back the House in Nove...
President Trump signed an executive order to fast-track medical research into psychedelic drugs, following a push by podcaster and influencer Joe Roga...
The Justice Department has declared that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional and therefore, President Trump is allowed to destroy any rec...
Most 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...
