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1951 episodes transcribedThe 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...
Scott, who serves as a senator from South Carolina, announced a presidential exploratory committee — a fundraising vehicle often used by candidates ah...
As many Republican-led states pass legislation restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors and adults, both the Biden administration and t...
Two federal judges issued contradictory opinions related to a drug used in nearly all U.S. medication abortions last week. The Biden administration ha...
Tennessee House Republicans voted to expel Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after they led a protest on the floor of the chamber in response to a...
Want to put yourself or your cause on the ballot? Generally, you need to gather signatures first in order to signal support for your message. Last yea...
Liberal Janet Protasiewicz won her election to the Wisconsin State Supreme Court by more than 11 percent. The rout is the latest example of a powerful...
Prosecutors 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...
