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1875 episodes transcribedTestimony 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...
As lawmakers and security officials brainstorm security reforms for the U.S. Capitol complex, investigators have yet to disclose any evidence that ext...
President Biden announced a series of policy actions on Thursday aimed at curbing gun violence. Congressional action remains unlikely unless Democrats...
States are facing pressure from corporations to dial back legislation that makes it harder to vote. Major League Baseball announced on Friday that it...
Black people, in particular Black women, are historically among the last to recover from economic downturns. Janelle Jones, the first Black woman to s...
A new memoir details a harrowing struggle with addiction but mostly elides the past corporate and lobbying work that has raised political propriety qu...
President Biden announced his first judicial nominees this week, including one judge seen as a possible candidate for the Supreme Court. Biden's staff...
This week the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether or not the NCAA is operating a conspiracy to fix prices in the athletic labor market by not...
Both parties agree that the country's infrastructure needs a face lift, and today President Biden revealed a $2 trillion plan to address the problem....
South Dakota's governor Kristi Noem is a Republican rising star who signed two executive orders on Monday that bar transgender girls and women from pa...
A new Georgia law has become the center of the debate over voting rights with President Biden calling it "Jim Crow in the 21st century." Republicans a...
Colorado is considering new gun control measures in the wake of this week's mass shooting in the state. But can those restrictions survive the scrutin...
In an hour-long briefing, Biden downplayed the role his election victory and messaging are playing in encouraging an influx of migrants to the border....
Fearing base backlash, Republican lawmakers are unlikely to support gun control measures popular among the American public. And limiting Democratic ma...
AstraZeneca's vaccine has not been authorized for use in the United States, but the nation has millions of doses in its stockpile. Now, the Biden admi...
The reasons the Biden administration is housing some migrant children in adult detention facilities are complicated. The number of migrants arriving a...
