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1767 episodes transcribedA new congressional district in Colorado that is forty percent could be the site of one of the country's closest House races in November. Democratic o...
Breyer's retirement gives President Biden his first opportunity to name a new justice to the court. During the presidential campaign, he pledged to na...
After Democrats failed to pass federal voting rights legislation, changes to election processes enacted by Republican-controlled state legislatures wi...
8,500 U.S. troops are on heightened alert for deployment to Europe after Russia stationed more than 100,000 military personnel on its border with Ukra...
Kamala Harris made history when she became the first woman and the first woman of color to serve as vice president. But in an often thankless job, and...
The court ruled that the former president cannot block the release of 800 pages of his records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurre...
In a press conference to mark one year in office, the president touted his administration's progress combating COVID, while conceding he'll likely nee...
Senate Democrats are bringing new voting rights bills to the floor this week. There's just one problem: They don't have the votes. That could have con...
The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as the president took office: tackling the pandemic, responding to the climate crisis, addressin...
The Supreme Court has struck down the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test rule for businesses with more than 100 employees, but allowed a separate...
The idea of another American Civil War might seem outlandish. But as the country diversifies, it's grown more polarized. Today, Americans can't even a...
In an interview with NPR, former President Donald Trump made it clear that he hasn't moved on from his 2020 election loss, and it's causing a rift wit...
In a fiery speech in Atlanta Tuesday, President Biden urged the Senate to change filibuster rules in order to pass new voting rights protections. But...
Democrats have two major pieces of unfinished business on their to-do list. They'll try, again, to reach a compromise on President Biden's signature B...
The justices are considering whether the federal mandates governing private employers and healthcare staff are constitutional. And Republicans who bac...
In a speech from the Capitol one year after the building was attacked, President Biden warned that the United States could become a nation that "accep...
As the president and his team promise more tests are coming, the omicron variant continues to drive cases to new records. While the latest wave is put...
Chief Tom Manger says that he is dealing with low morale and high turnover as the force attempts to reinvent itself in the wake of last year's attack...
The sentiment is felt most acutely by Republicans, two-thirds of whom wrongly believe that "voter fraud helped Joe Biden win the 2020 election." That'...
Miles Parks, Juana Summers, and Ayesha Rascoe are joined by Stephen Thompson of NPR Music to discuss their favorite political music of the year.Connec...
