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1800 episodes transcribedPuerto Rico has — five years after Hurricane Maria killed thousands — again been hit by a devastating storm. Trump was broadly criticized for a misman...
A panel of judges from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the Justice Department to resume reviewing classified documents seized at Mar-a-L...
President Biden's annual remarks before the United Nations General Assembly were designed to rally people at home and abroad to continue their support...
President Biden told 60 Minutes that the pandemic is basically over. Hundreds of Americans are still dying every day, but most Americans are essential...
Though both parties have agreed for decades that the U.S. immigration system is in dire need of reform, the optics of border-crossing migrants have be...
Abortion access and inflation are the top issues driving the midterms, but they're motivating very different sets of voters. And an under-discussed fo...
Cody Keenan talks to NPR's Tamara Keith about writing for Barack Obama, the impact of Donald Trump's rhetoric and whether a president needs to be a co...
Republican J.D. Vance and Democrat Tim Ryan are contesting Ohio's open Senate seat. Social issues including abortion are top-of-mind and the race is s...
Rates of political violence, armed protest, hate crime and white supremacist activity all became more prevalent during the Trump administration. Can a...
Donald Trump's legal team and the Justice Department disagree over who should review the documents, what that review should entail and who should foot...
With their base energized after the Supreme Court struck down national abortion access protections, Democrats are pushing to vote on a marriage bill a...
Veterans' groups, students and attorneys are mobilizing to work at polling sites as health and political concerns have strained staffing in localities...
Donald Trump's GOP critics have begun to suggest that Republicans should nominate a fresh face, someone eligible for reelection after 2024. It's the k...
Judge Eileen Cannon, who was appointed by former President Trump, has handed the former president a big, if temporary, win. She says an independent ar...
Research from the Voting Rights Lab, a nonpartisan group that tracks election laws, surveyed voters on their attitudes toward election systems and pro...
President Joe Biden delivered a speech warning that American democracy is endangered by Donald Trump and those of his supporters who push conspiracies...
The U.S. just passed its first major climate legislation. NPR's Asma Khalid sat down at the White House with Deputy National Climate Adviser Ali Zaidi...
The Justice Department says that Trump's representatives claimed they turned over all remaining classified material at kept at Trump's estate during a...
Voters of color still overwhelmingly support Democrats, but Republican in-roads at the margins can have a big impact in states like Georgia, Florida,...
Even as Democrats see their support swell, they are still in real danger of losing control of the House to Republicans. The sitting president's party...
