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1951 episodes transcribedThe House is set to vote this evening on a resolution to limit President Trump's authority to strike Iran. President Trump is operating, like his rece...
No casualties were reported after an Iranian missile strike on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq on Tuesday night.On Wednesday morning, President Trum...
President Trump's decision to kill a top Iranian general has split the Democratic field along familiar ideological lines. It remains to be seen how mu...
Top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi called last week's drone airstrike against Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani "provocative and disproportionate."Iran...
President Trump ordered a strike against a top Iranian military leader that seems likely to upset the balance between the Middle East and Washington,...
Julián Castro, who served as secretary of housing and urban development in the Obama administration , has ended his presidential campaign. Elements of...
In this special episode of The NPR Politics Podcast we sat down with New Hampshire Public Radio's political reporter Lauren Chooljian to talk about wh...
In this special episode of The NPR Politics Podcast we sat down with Iowa Public Radio's lead political reporter Clay Masters to talk about why Iowa's...
What are the most notable political moments of the last decade? The NPR Politics team sits down to discuss four of their picks: the rise of the Tea Pa...
This week, the NPR Politics Podcast investigates defining moments in the lives of four top Democratic presidential candidates to understand how those...
This week, the NPR Politics Podcast investigates defining moments in the lives of four top Democratic presidential candidates to understand how those...
This week, the NPR Politics Podcast investigates defining moments in the lives of four top Democratic presidential candidates to understand how those...
This week, the NPR Politics Podcast investigates defining moments in the lives of four top Democratic presidential candidates to understand how those...
Earlier this year, Ukraine elected a comedian as its new president, kicking off a wave of reform that swept the country. Just as Ukrainians felt as th...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are locked in a procedural fight over the format of President Trump's impeachmen...
The last Democratic presidential debate of 2019, sponsored by the PBS NewsHour and Politico, has concluded. After an hour without direct clashes, Sen....
For just the third time in American history, the House of Representatives has voted to impeach the president of the United States. The chamber approve...
President Trump sent a six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Tuesday, criticizing Democrats for the impeachment proceedings, which he calls "a...
New Jersey Democrat Rep. Jeff Van Drew is expected to switch parties and become a Republican. Democrats still appear to have more than enough support...
Despite partisan impeachment hearings, lawmakers reached a flurry of tentative deals on on Space Force, family leave for federal workers, and a multil...
