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1797 episodes transcribedThe presidential campaign is heating up, and candidates are hitting the road to convince people to vote for them. Today, we take a look inside a Donal...
The House of Representatives reached a deal on government funding, but Speaker Mike Johnson again had to rely on Democratic votes to pass the bill. No...
Texas has a controversial immigration law that, if implemented, would empower local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration law. It's a reminde...
New data shows that voting in America has gotten easier over the past two decades. More voters have the ability to cast a ballot before Election Day,...
Is reform coming to Arizona's presidential preference election, which blocks independent voters from participating? And Donald Trump and Ohio's govern...
Vice President Harris was known as a middling campaigner during the 2020 presidential primary, but she's since come into her own as a capable messenge...
Fani Willis, Fulton County District Attorney, can continue to lead the prosecution against former President Donald Trump. A Georgia judge ruled Willis...
Congress is giving the popular Chinese social media app TikTok an ultimatum—find an American buyer or face a nationwide ban in the United States. Will...
There is a movement to get third-party and independent presidential candidates on the ballot this year as many Americans have expressed frustration ab...
Republicans and Democrats expressed dissatisfaction with special counsel Robert Hur's report about President Biden's handling of classified documents...
The Republican National Committee voted in a new chair and co-chair on Friday — including a member of the Trump family and a man who questions that Pr...
President Biden and former President Donald Trump are almost certain to be in a rematch in the general race, but the primaries are still underway. Bot...
President Biden delivered a fiery State Of The Union Thursday night addressing immigration, aid for Ukraine and shrinkflation among other topics. But...
After a tough night with only one win on Super Tuesday, Nikki Haley announced Wednesday that she is suspending her Republican presidential campaign. W...
There were no surprises this Super Tuesday as both President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump won big in the day's primary voting contests....
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Colorado could not disqualify former President Donald Trump from its ballot. The opinion came the day before Super T...
In this week's roundup, we look at the dueling visits to the U.S.-Mexico border taken by President Biden and former president Trump, the continued gla...
The Supreme Court announced it will hear a case related to special counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of former president Donald Trump related to Trump'...
President Biden won the Michigan Democratic presidential primary Tuesday by a wide margin, despite a push by those upset by his administration's polic...
The United States Supreme Court is weighing in on a case legal experts say is the biggest test of free speech this country has seen in decades. The qu...
