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1955 episodes transcribedPresident Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met for a video summit this week. Both governments lauded the call as productive, but the economic and h...
Bannon was indicted last week for defying a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. He surrendered this morning to federal a...
Pew is out with an extensive look at nine different ideological groups latent in America's political divides. And the National Rifle Association strug...
Democrats are racing to finish their extensive investigation into the January 6th insurrection in the next year, worried that they may not hold onto t...
Donald Trump and other top Republicans have continued to lie about the results of the presidential election. Now, 62 percent of Republicans believe el...
Vice President Kamala Harris is in France for several days, helping to mend the U.S. relationship with that country after a recent drama involving a m...
It is a major political victory for President Biden, though it remains to be seen whether it will buoy his approval ratings or boost support for Democ...
It is not clear whether Democrats in the House of Representatives will vote today on the two major legislative packages that represent the core of Pre...
Brad Raffensperger is a conservative Republican who serves as Georgia's elected Secretary of State — he oversaw the 2020 elections cycle in the state....
Youngkin defeated former governor Terry McAuliffe, and outperformed former president Donald Trump's 2020 margins in every county. In the deep-blue sta...
A near-ban on abortion in Texas was designed to be hard to challenge in court, but in a hearing on Monday, many of the Supreme Court's conservative ju...
President Biden continues his travel this week in Scotland, where he is attending the United Nations climate conference, COP26. Despite trouble passin...
President Biden touted a new framework for the infrastructure package Democrats have been trying to deliver. The package dropped from $3.5 trillion to...
The Supreme Court has already ruled that an individual has the right to bear arms in their own home, but next week it will hear arguments about whethe...
The labor market shifted dramatically during the pandemic, and as employers once again begin to hire, many black and brown Americans are finding it di...
TikTok and Snapchat appeared for the first time before Congress alongside YouTube to answer questions about how safe their platforms are for young peo...
Thousands of leaked documents from Facebook were viewed by more news organizations over the weekend including NPR. The internal sources show the compa...
The off-year election is the first test of how people are feeling ahead of a consequential midterm season for the Biden administration. And will the J...
The White House continues to negotiate with Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona over the president's social programs...
Another high-profile voting rights push has failed because it did not attract enough Republican support to reach the de facto 60-vote threshold needed...
