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1801 episodes transcribedThe Commerce Department is investigating whether China is skirting U.S. tariffs by routing solar panel parts through southeast Asian manufacturers — t...
The Labor Department said Friday that U.S. businesses added 390,000 jobs in May, as the unemployment rate held steady at a very low 3.6 percent and, d...
Despite bipartisan efforts at a modest deal, Senate Republicans could filibuster any gun control measures that are brought to a vote. That would incre...
The conservative majority so far appears unmoved by prevailing public opinion on the controversial social issues before them this term, though they ha...
And President Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited with victims and their families in Texas on Sunday. The White House is considering more executiv...
In the latest installment of our book club, Danielle Kurtzleben talks to professor Carol Anderson about the ways in which redistricting and state vote...
Most people know John Legend as an award-winning actor and musician. But he also has a long record of political activism. He talked to political corre...
The Senate is negotiating over limited legislation aimed at reducing gun violence, although those negotiations are narrow in scope and unlikely to pro...
An opt-in police misconduct database and new conduct standards for federal police: President Biden's police reform executive action enacts reforms tha...
A mass shooting at a Texas elementary school has many Americans again asking what can be done about gun violence. But in the face of broad Republican...
A court case has some voters with disabilities worried that they will not be able to rely on family or caretakers for help casting a vote without brea...
President Biden said the U.S. Military would defend Taiwan if China invaded. He also announced a new, if nebulous, economic compact with 12 nations de...
U.S. government tariffs and Department of Agriculture buying practices helped drive consolidation in the baby formula industry. When a major plant shu...
The leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court earlier this month that showed the majority-conservative court ready to overturn Roe v. Wade has le...
In North Carolina, Rep. Ted Budd — boosted by Donald Trump's endorsement — secured a decisive win over the state's former two-term governor.And in Pen...
A prominent conference of American conservatives — the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) — will take place in Hungary this week. Prime M...
The suspected gunman in Saturday's shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. is alleged to have written a racist screed explaining his motivations. One of the topics...
Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sat down with NPR's Deirdre Walsh for a conversation about the leaked Supreme Court draft that would spell the...
Senate Democrats failed to pass a bill that would have codified the right to an abortion Wednesday, with West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin voting with al...
Rep. Henry Cuellar is a conservative Democrat who has represented the 28th Congressional District in south Texas since 2005. Backed by Democratic cong...
