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1764 episodes transcribedBiden strenuously resisted pressure to step down from the campaign for weeks after a debate in which he struggled to speak clearly and coherently. But...
In a lengthy speech formally accepting the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump made his case for serving a second term focused on mass d...
J.D. Vance is 39 years-old and has been in office as Ohio's junior U.S. senator for less than two years. He said in an interview that this is his firs...
Night two of the Republican National Convention was full of speeches by former Trump rivals offering their full endorsement of the nominee. That inclu...
We're reporting from Milwaukee, Wisc., where the Republican National Convention kicked off by officially nominating Donald Trump and J.D. Vance as the...
President Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office. He used the remarks to again decry political violence, which he said has no place in Americ...
The former president was rushed off the stage by the Secret Service. Trump said in a statement on his platform Truth Social a bullet grazed his right...
After this week's NATO summit in Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden held a rare, solo press conference to try and allay concerns over his mental fi...
Often frustrated by Washington bureaucracy and red tape in his first term, former President Trump aims to make the presidency more powerful if he wins...
What is Donald Trump's plan for a second term? He's got ideas of his own, the Republican party has released a platform document — but the most compreh...
Over the weekend, a number of high-level congressional Democrats called for the president to step back from the ticket. He sent a letter on Monday tha...
Amid a frenetic campaign newscycle, we take a look at some of the very real challenges that the next president will have to tackle during their four-y...
With Congress returning to Washington next week and more lawmakers raising the possibility that President Biden should step down from the ticket, the...
Our friends at the Indicator from Planet Money caught up with congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh to talk about her reporting on how members of...
As President Joe Biden continued to face fallout from his poor performance at the CNN Presidential Debate — including calls from fellow Democrats to d...
In our wrap of the Supreme Court term, we reflect on the huge number of consequential rulings and explain some of the cases we initially did not have...
What the ruling means for the charges against Donald Trump, the power of the presidency and the movement to reform the Supreme Court.This episode: sen...
The Supreme Court largely punted on abortion access and curtailed a law the Department of Justice has been using to prosecute accused Jan. 6 insurrect...
President Biden fumbled in the CNN Presidential Debate, offering often rambling answers in a hoarse and quiet voice. Donald Trump, who also rambled, p...
Many folks have tuned out the news, unenthused about the rematch between historical unpopular presidential candidates. Ahead of Thursday's debate in G...
