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1951 episodes transcribedFlorida 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...
A billion-dollar defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against the broadcaster is tied to the outlet's full-throated embrace of former...
Black farmers have long struggled with discrimination, inequities that persist today despite federal efforts to address them. Now, the USDA is out wit...
The U.S. attorney general traveled to Ukraine to discuss war crimes investigations with top justice officials from around the globe. In an exclusive c...
Democratic lawmakers and Republican activists both met for messaging conferences this week. The Supreme Court's conservative majority appears poised t...
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy provided access to the footage to Carlson, who has frequently used his Fox News show to spread conspiracies about...
A new House panel kicked off a series of hearings focused on what lawmakers describe as the threat posed by China's government to the United States. T...
The Department of Energy has a new report which concludes with "low confidence" that the COVID-19 virus could have originated from a lab in Wuhan, Chi...
After a train derailed in rural Ohio, the community is concerned about the near- and long-term health impacts of the hazardous waste that the train wa...
