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1801 episodes transcribedDonald Trump could be the first president in American history to be impeached twice. Federal authorities have begun arresting those involved in stormi...
Amid resignations and condemnation from Trump's Republican allies, top Democrats have said that he should be removed from office by impeachment or thr...
Members of the U.S. House and Senate on Wednesday voted to reject objections to President-elect Joe Biden's election victory in the state of Arizona....
Supporters of President Trump laid siege to the US Capitol today, occupying the building as lawmakers there began the process of certifying President-...
Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, according to the AP, inching the Senate closer to a Democratic majority. In the race that wou...
Voters cast the final ballots in Georgia's Senate runoff elections Tuesday, ending the state's two months at the center of the political universe.Now,...
In a bid to stay in power despite losing the presidential election, President Donald Trump called Georgia's Secretary of State Saturday and pushed him...
A new Congress will be sworn in on Sunday—the Democrats have a slimmer majority and Republicans have elected slightly more women. And Trump's educatio...
President Trump reshaped the federal judiciary and made three lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. How will that legacy play out under a Joe Bi...
Jake Sullivan is the president-elect's top national security adviser. He told NPR's Scott Detrow that he is worried that a lack of communication from...
Joe Biden's climate policy will look a lot different to that of President Trump's... and President Obama's. And, on top of responding to the pandemic,...
After bemoaning elements of a COVID relief deal that his administration helped to negotiate, President Trump ended up signing it anyway. The delay cou...
President Trump's most radical departures from precedent were arguably his handling of the Justice Department and foreign policy. Joe Biden said he wo...
Tech giants are the subject of censorship scrutiny, anti-monopoly lawsuits, and international trade tension. President-elect Joe Biden will have a lot...
President Trump raised last-minute objections, imperiling direct payments and other aid to millions of Americans. He also issued a new round of pardon...
President Trump's baseless electoral fraud conspiracies have frenzied his supporters, some of whom have made violent threats against Americans who wor...
From direct payments for American households to mass transit, the Congressional relief package contains money for individuals and institutions affecte...
A major hack of federal government computer systems appears to be state-sponsored espionage. And we talk through Joe Biden's latest cabinet picks.This...
We talk through the apparent details of a pending COVID relief deal. And, local officials across the country are being rattled by threats of violence....
For the eighty million Americans who didn't vote in November, government can feel distant. Non-voters tend to believe that things will go on just as t...
