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1800 episodes transcribedIn Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday, President Trump will hold his first campaign rally since the coronavirus pandemic seized the United States. The top pu...
The Supreme Court has extended a life-support line to some 650,000 so-called "Dreamers" on Thursday, allowing them to remain safe from deportation. In...
President Trump is in a political hole and has a lot of ground to make up over the next five months if he hopes to win another term, an NPR analysis o...
President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday encouraging police departments to improve training — a step critics say falls short of what is ne...
The vote was 6-3 with conservatives Chief Justice John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch joining the court's four liberal justices in the majority. "In Title...
There is so much to unpack in this current moment. Sam has a candid conversation with Aunt Betty about how history has shaped her view of the current...
President Trump and his campaign are sticking to culture war messaging even as some congressional Republicans cede ground on police reform as an incre...
After one of the city's police officers killed George Floyd, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the city's p...
Philonise Floyd, whose brother was killed by Minneapolis police, testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. The hearing, tied t...
As Joe Biden's campaign touted his plans for police reform, President Trump denied that there is a systemic problem with American policing; according...
Congressional Democrats on Monday unveiled the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, which aims to install wide-ranging reforms for police departments acro...
As the country erupts in protests over police brutality and racism, two-thirds of Americans think President Trump has increased racial tensions. That...
Since the White House has increased its military in the nation's capital, more protesters are gathering by the day. The protests continue to remain la...
Despite curfews imposed across the country, protesters continue to gather to demand action after the death of George Floyd. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned both police violence and President Trump's increasingly confrontational response to widespread unrest in a T...
Escalating his rhetoric during a period of roiling national crises, President Trump on Monday threatened to deploy the U.S. military to cities or stat...
President Trump on Monday called governors weak and urged them to "dominate" to prevent further violent demonstrations following the death of George F...
President Trump responded to violent protests days after the killing of a black man. He said he will send in the National Guard, adding: "When the loo...
The Justice Department says it has made the investigation into George Floyd's death "a top priority," after furor over a video depicting a white polic...
Twitter has placed a fact-checking warning on a pair of tweets issued by President Trump in which he claims without evidence that mail-in ballots are...
