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1770 episodes transcribedTechnical expertise and supply chains shortages will pose huge challenges for global manufactures hoping to manufacture coronavirus vaccines, despite...
Facebook's moderation board has upheld the company's decision to suspend Donald Trump's account because of posts expressing support for rioters, thoug...
Reeling from the political fallout after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, some liberal groups are pushing for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer...
President Biden has touted his desire to bring transformational change to American society, but his pursuit of compromise might curb what's possible o...
This week, California's secretary of state confirmed that there are enough valid signatures to trigger a recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democ...
The first round of Census numbers out this week will help to determine each community's electoral clout and share of federal resources. An ongoing aud...
In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Biden detailed how he says his two multi-trillion dollar legislative proposals will res...
The Docket is a new ongoing series from The NPR Politics Podcast where we examine the major legal questions of our time. Where does a law come from, a...
As President Biden nears his 100th day in office, how much credit is he due for curbing the pandemic and what challenges remain?This episode: congress...
In a 94-to-1 vote, the Senate passed a bill aimed at reducing hate crimes directed at Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. And more than half of Ame...
Ahead of the meeting, the US announced its goal to halve emissions from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. It was one of a number of pledges annou...
One day after a jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on murder charges, the U.S. Justice Department launched an investigatio...
The jury has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all the counts he faced over the death of George Floyd. After the verdict...
How will the US slash emissions by 2030? White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy talks to NPR's Scott Detrow ahead of this week's climate summit wit...
Members of the House and Senate, all former governors and mayors, attended a meeting at the White House today to talk infrastructure priorities with t...
Testimony ended Thursday in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, facing charges of second-degree murder, third-degree...
A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found that Americans generally support making things like broadband part of infrastructure, but they don't agree on...
President Biden says that U.S. troops will be out of Afghanistan by September 11th, 2021. The president said in an address Wednesday that after nearly...
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration recommended pausing the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after...
In a new memoir, the former Republican House Speaker says that even Ronald Reagan couldn't get elected in today's GOP. He decries obstructionist tacti...
