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1925 episodes transcribedSix Republicans voted with Democrats that it is constitutional to try a former president in the Senate after he or she has left office. But it would t...
The impeachment trial gets underway tomorrow. A new brief suggests that Trump's lawyers will defend him on both process and substance. And a vote to c...
In his first major foreign policy address since assuming office, President Biden promised that the country would once again be a reliable ally to its...
The question is at the center of next week's impeachment trial in the Senate, which begins Tuesday. Donald Trump's defense team says you can't vote to...
Liz Cheney is the third-ranking House Republican; she voted for President Trump's second impeachment. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a freshman lawmaker wh...
The former president's impeachment trial begins next Tuesday. His new attorneys say the Senate doesn't have the grounds to proceed now that he is out...
Ten Republican senators are meeting with President Biden at the White House Monday to discuss their coronavirus relief proposal — which is just one-th...
Republican strategists close to Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue's failed Senate campaigns tell WABE's Emma Hurt that former President Trump's interfer...
Republican Rob Portman of Ohio talks with NPR's Susan Davis about his retirement from the Senate, the Republican party after Trump, as well as the for...
President Biden will "pause" new federal land leases for oil and gas extraction "to the extent possible" — but how much of an impact will that have on...
President Biden signed new executive actions today attempting to address racial inequity. For activists, these initiatives feel like they are lacking...
Today the House will formally deliver an article of impeachment against former President Trump to the Senate, and the upper chamber has already begun...
President Biden has promised that 100 million doses of vaccines will be administered in his first 100 days — but some public health experts think the...
Vice President Kamala Harris can cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate; that means that Democrats effectively hold a majority in the chamber. But the...
In his inaugural address, he promised to keep all of his work as president in service of people rather than power. And Kamala Harris made history; she...
The Senate is back in Washington today. The lawmakers will need to consider President-elect Biden's cabinet nominees, weigh his coronavirus relief pro...
President-elect Joe Biden's inaugural plans have been reshaped by COVID-19 and concerns over security after the insurrection at the Capitol. Biden is...
For our inaugural NPR Politics Book Club pick, NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben talks to Carlos Lozada about his book What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellec...
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris talks to NPR's Scott Detrow about how she felt after the attack on the Capitol and the administration's new $1.9 tr...
The pandemic is taking an immense toll on the nation: some 4000 Americans die each day. And, in December, another 140 thousand people lost their jobs....
