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1924 episodes transcribedRochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said officials knew there would be a surge from the Omicron variant sin...
Huma Abedin has worked for Hillary Clinton for a quarter-century. In a new book, Both/And, she discusses being a prominent Muslim woman in American po...
The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as the president took office: tackling the pandemic, responding to the climate crisis, addressin...
The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as the president took office: tackling the pandemic, responding to the climate crisis, addressin...
The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as he took office: tackling the pandemic, responding to the climate crisis, addressing racial in...
In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, the West Virginia Democrat said he would not support the Build Back Better Act, the centerpiece of President Bide...
President Biden acknowledged Thursday that the centerpiece of his agenda, a nearly-two trillion dollar social programs package known as the Build Back...
Following in the footsteps of Lucy McBath, a Georgia Democrat who won a seat in the House of Representatives after her son was shot and killed, gun co...
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is feeling hopeful about the midterms: President Biden's approval numbers are low and inflation is at least tempo...
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol recommended that Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff under President Trum...
U.S. officials have accused Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko of being the latest to take advantage of desperate migrants. They say he helped...
The Supreme Court is allowing a lawsuit challenging Texas's 6-week abortion ban to go forward, but keeping the law in place while the suit moves throu...
Joe Biden pledged ambitious criminal justice reforms as a candidate, but has taken few steps during his time in office to deliver them. And the FBI sa...
In response to China's human rights abuses, the United States will not send any government representatives to the 2022 Winter Olympics in the country....
The Supreme Court could allow Mississippi's ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy to take effect. In the United States, many women end up getti...
An NPR analysis finds that people living in counties which strongly supported Donald Trump in the 2020 election could be three times more likely to di...
Congress passed a short-term funding bill to avoid a government shutdown, but they only punted and they still have a long list of things to do before...
The Supreme Court heard arguments for a case that challenges the foundation of Roe v. Wade, the decision that originally made abortion legal. In their...
Congressional districts are redrawn every ten years by state legislatures. In theory it is so populations are accurately represented when voting, but...
Congress and, in particular, congressional Democrats have a long to-do list before the end of the year. But inter- and intra-party disputes threaten a...
