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1799 episodes transcribedProsecutors in New York allege Donald Trump falsified business records to conceal hush money payments made by allies, which prosecutors say was an eff...
A race for one seat on the Wisconsin state Supreme Court has broken national spending records. The winner could be the key swing vote on cases decidin...
How will American politics change now that a former president, Donald Trump, is facing criminal prosecution for the first time in the country's nearly...
The indictment appears to be connected to hush money payments made to adult film actor Stormy Daniels in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election. Da...
Now, states are beginning to take up the mantle in order to revive the initiatve supported by super-majorities of Americans. Teachers, parents and stu...
In 2013, researchers published a landmark study on why Americans of all incomes and demographics die years before their peers in comparable countries....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing a criminal corruption charges, has moved to weaken the country's court system. His plan is, f...
Six in ten Americans say in a new NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll that they don't want Trump to be president again, but it's unclear whether the other GO...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely Republican presidential primary candidate, once strugged to win the vote of conservative Latinos in South Florida...
Top monetary officials including Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen say things have stabilized in the two weeks s...
TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew is set to address the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday and is expected to tout the company's billio...
The former president's announced on social media that he'd soon be arrested, apparently referring to an ongoing state investigation in New York over h...
It's been twenty years since the U.S. launched a war in Iraq — a conflict justified by faulty intelligence. More than 4000 Americans died along with t...
A bill ending Iraq war authorizations has cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate and is expected to be taken up by the chamber for a final vote nex...
Was the FDA wrong to approve a drug that's used in nearly all medication abortions in the U.S. — and should the drug, mifepristone, be taken off the m...
The U.S. and the United Kingdom will provide nuclear-powered submarine technology to Australia as part of a defense deal between the two nations. And,...
Former President Donald Trump has been invited to testify before a New York City grand jury — a move that is widely understood to mean Trump could soo...
The Biden administration has announced that customers of Silicon Valley Bank will have full access to their deposits, an extraordinary move by federal...
President Biden wants to raise income taxes on households earning more than $400,000 a year to shore up the social safety net, make community college...
In principle, Democratic lawmakers support the local Washington, D.C., government's power to make laws for the city's residents — who don't have votin...
