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1765 episodes transcribedThis episode includes discussion of sexual violence.Jurors found former President Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation in the civil lawsuit...
Congress has long directed the government to spend more money than it collects in taxes. That means the government has to borrow money to meets its ob...
As a major pandemic-related immigration policy is scheduled to end, the Biden administration is warning the tens of thousands of migrants hoping to cr...
A jury in Washington, D.C., has convicted former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio and three others of seditious conspiracy, handing the Justice Depa...
Statehouses have long passed legislation in order to curtail or overrule local governments, but there is a renewed focus in many Republican-controlled...
The public health policy was implemented by the Trump administration as a way to limit migration to the United States during the pandemic, and the Bid...
This episode discusses gun violence and contains mentions of suicide and the sound of gun shots. If you or someone you know may be considering suicide...
Roughly half the country believes that neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump should seek the presidency in 2024 — though both men are. A group called No...
Both men are strikingly unpopular — two-thirds of Americans don't want Trump to run for president again and just 41 percent approve of Biden's job per...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was able to narrowly pass a bill to temporarily raise the debt limit. But it was paired with spending cuts and policy cha...
A core tenet of President Biden's economic agenda has been protecting American industry. He argues a strong manufacturing sector is good for the econo...
President Biden announced his reelection bid in a video released early Tuesday morning. We break down the issues that he chose to highlight, the polit...
Republican presidential hopefuls flocked to Iowa this weekend for a chance to make their pitch to a key block of primary voters: conservative Christia...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is mulling over a 2024 run for the White House — and he currently stands as the biggest threat to former President Trump in...
The Supreme Court has three options: send the fight over mifepristone — a drug used for over half of U.S. abortions — back to a lower court, take the...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he would agree to raise federal government's borrowing limit in exchange for cuts to discretionary, non-defense spen...
It remains to be seen whether Fox News will have to retract any of the baseless claims it broadcast about Dominion Voting Systems, which was suing the...
The Supreme Court will decide how to move forward after temporarily halting a lower court's order which would have restricted access to the abortion m...
California Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein's months-long recuperation from shingles has hamstrung the Judiciary committee and led some of her fellow l...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, Jack Teixeira, as a suspect in the leak of classifi...
