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1957 episodes transcribedVaccination rates are trending up and deaths are trending down since President Biden took office—but another hundred thousand Americans have died sinc...
Under questioning from senators about the attack on the Capitol, the law enforcement officials who oversaw the building's security were quick to lay b...
In his confirmation hearing to serve as Attorney General, Merrick Garland emphasized loyalty to the people of the United States over fealty to the pre...
Millions of Texans have been without power or potable water for days following unusually harsh winter weather. The Republican governor blamed the outa...
President Biden has made reopening schools a benchmark for how his administration is handling the pandemic. It is a politically tricky goal, since tho...
In a statement former President Donald Trump called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a "dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack" and said Rep...
House Democrats are putting the finishing touches on their Covid-19 relief package. It is expected to include everything from direct payments to a $15...
Seven Republican senators voted to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection, making this impeachment the most bipartisan in h...
All fifty members of the Democratic caucus and seven Republicans said Donald Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection at the Capitol — that's ten v...
In a combative but brief showing, former president Trump's defense team highlighted past uses of fight metaphors by Democratic politicians to suggest...
The House impeachment managers concluded their case against Donald Trump by characterizing a Senate conviction as a way to prevent of future violence...
The Democratic impeachment managers played a series of graphic videos demonstrating just how close senators came to encountering violent extremists in...
Six 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...
