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1955 episodes transcribedThe 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The Supreme Court heard arguments for a case that challenges the foundation of Roe v. Wade, the decision that originally made abortion legal.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...
A new Covid-19 variant called Omicron is spreading throughout the world and public health officials are worried about its transmissibility. President...
In order to resist a congressional investigation into the January 6th insurrection, former President Trump and his associates are claiming executive p...
Cokie Roberts was one of NPR's "Founding Mothers," a pioneering journalist whose career blazed a trail for generations of women at the network. NPR's...
Though it has grown more popular with time, the Affordable Care Act was widely disliked by the public in 2010 and cost Democrats dearly in the midterm...
More than 100,000 people died from a drug overdose in the 12-month period beginning April 2020. Despite a growing consensus that recognizes addiction...
COVID-19 case numbers are once again rising in the United States ahead of the holiday season, but the country is in a much different place than it was...
The two-trillion dollar package still needs to pass the Senate, where it is expected to undergo extensive changes. Also, a look at what issues are dom...
The summit comes after a five-year hiatus spanning the Trump administration. Despite the nations' strong relationship, disagreements over sensitive po...
Democrats say they will prioritize sustained outreach to communities of color and clear messages about how they think they have improved people's live...
