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2080 episodes transcribedThe White House has released guidelines for when and how states can begin reopening their economies, but the metrics are loose. Georgia's Governor Bri...
Joe Biden has committed to selecting a woman as his running mate. Now that is the presumptive nominee, he's facing pressure from a number of camps in...
Doubts grow over the next phase of the coronavirus relief plan. And, the coronavirus outbreak has reshaped how top strategists are approaching congres...
Late Monday night, President Trump tweeted that he would sign an executive order suspending all immigration into the United States. The proclamation t...
Demonstrations supported by national conservative groups have begun to spring up across the country. They are protesting the severe restrictions that...
The $484 billion bill is expected to approved by the Senate Tuesday afternoon. The largest component of the legislation, according to a summary obtain...
Note: This podcast contains an explicit description of an alleged sexual assault.Tara Reade, a former junior staffer in Joe Biden's Senate office, has...
The White House has now issued guidance about when communities can begin to reopen, a phased plan based on downward trends in positive cases. But for...
5.2 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the four-week total to 22 million — nearly wiping out all the job gains made si...
President Trump is impatient to get the country reopened. The administration's public health experts and the governors of California and New York say...
Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden in a twelve-minute video shared online Tuesday morning. So what does the former president's endorsement mean in an ele...
Rather than a sweeping national campaign of screening, drive-through sample collection and lab testing, NPR found a smattering of small pilot projects...
In a White House briefing Friday, the top medical experts from the coronavirus task force said the social distancing measures appeared to be constrain...
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits shot up again last week, as 6.6 million more people filed initial claims, and analysts expect the n...
In a livestream announcing his exit from the presidential contest, Bernie Sanders told support that while there was no viable path forward for his cam...
After a protracted tug-of-war between the state's governor, legislature and Supreme Court, voting is underway in Wisconsin's primary election. Results...
Deaths from the coronavirus outbreak are expected to spike this week in some of the country's hardest hit communities. President Trump breaks from his...
The Democratic National Committee has agreed to push back their nominating convention until mid-August. Mike Bloomberg is facing lawsuits from former...
More than six million people filed for unemployment last week, on top of the 3.3 million claims the week prior. Analysts project the share of American...
As the White House warns the American public to expect 100 thousand or more deaths from the coronavirus outbreak, the administration is deferring to s...
