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1934 episodes transcribedIn her Senate confirmation hearing earlier this year, Attorney General Pam Bondi promised that the "weaponization" of the Justice Department would sto...
President Trump has called for the government's spending to be wrapped into "one big, beautiful bill" along with other legislative priorities, but Con...
Mike Waltz is out as President Trump's National Security Adviser, it's the first major departure for the Trump White House since the start of his seco...
President Trump has said he wants to be the "fertilization president," urging American couples to have more babies as birth rates decline in the U.S....
Donald Trump's first 100 days in office have been marked by his on-again-off-again approach to tariffs. Recently, he has given automakers a break on t...
As Donald Trump approaches the 100th day of his second term, most voters are not impressed. Majorities disapprove of his performance on key issues, li...
Since Russia's large scale invasion began in 2022, the U.S. has provided significant military aid to Ukraine. But Republicans, led by President Trump,...
When running for office, Donald Trump promised to execute the largest deportation in American history and issue massive cuts to federal spending. In h...
Donald Trump has repeatedly said that "tariff" is "one of the most beautiful words in the dictionary." In his administration's first 100 days, Trump h...
When running for office, Donald Trump suggested that he "alone could fix" the ills befalling the United States. In his administration's first 100 days...
On the campaign trail, candidate Donald Trump decried "gender ideology," said the military was becoming too "woke," and that DEI programs across the f...
The Heritage Foundation's "blueprint" for a new Republican administration got a lot of attention during the 2024 presidential campaign. While candidat...
As the White House continued to adjust its tariff policies, President Trump lashed out against Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, saying his "termin...
A federal judge ruled there is "probable cause" to find the Trump administration in contempt for violating an order last month to pause some deportati...
The entity known as DOGE has been used as part of the Trump administration's efforts to radically reshape the federal government. But a whistleblower...
In an Oval Office meeting Monday with El Salvador's president, President Trump said Kilmar Abrego Garcia would not come back to the U.S., despite a Su...
Much of the activism seen on college campuses last year in protest of Israel's war in Gaza is now under increased scrutiny as part of a policy that th...
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration must "facilitate" the return of a man it mistakenly deported to El Salvador. How is the...
After days of market turmoil, President Trump walked back some tariffs on some countries, but kept a near universal 10 percent tariff in place and inc...
Earlier this week, President Trump threatened to make the steep tariffs on China even steeper if China did not withdraw its retaliatory measures. Toda...
