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1764 episodes transcribedPresident Trump announced tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, despite strong objections from fellow Republicans. Economic adviser Gary Cohn became...
The first primary votes of 2018 are in, in Texas. Democrats had a strong showing, turning out over a million voters. But Republicans still outnumbered...
Primary season officially gets under way this week. Texas is first up, on Tuesday. For the first time in years, Democrats are fielding candidates in e...
Guns are still dominating the conversation in Washington, though Congress has come and gone this week without taking any real steps to pass legislatio...
It's a big week at the Supreme Court. On Monday, the justices declined to hear the Trump administration's appeal of a federal court ruling that blocke...
This is a special episode, recorded in front of a live audience at the Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square in Cleveland on Friday, February 23. This epis...
Exactly a week after 17 of their teachers and classmates were shot and killed, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida...
A federal grand jury has indicted 13 Russians and three Russian entities in connection with the attack on the 2016 presidential election. This episode...
A familiar scene, and familiar words from lawmakers, after 17 people were killed Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florid...
By many accounts, the White House is still in turmoil after the resignation last week of a top aide over domestic abuse allegations. Over the weekend,...
Senate leaders reached a two-year, bipartisan budget deal, but with just hours left before government funding runs out again, it's still unclear if it...
The stock market had another volatile day Tuesday, but recovered some after its record 1,175 point drop on Monday. Lawmakers in Pennsylvania have unti...
The much-hyped secret memo, put together by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, was released Friday. President Trump authorized its decla...
The FBI is clashing with the White House over the release of a classified memo that allegedly details abuses of surveillance power by the FBI and the...
President Trump delivered his first State of the Union Tuesday night — a call for unity, peppered throughout with language and themes aimed at his bas...
President Trump is set to deliver his first State of the Union on Tuesday night. This episode, host/congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, White Ho...
There have been a number of revelations this week related to the Russia investigation. Among them, that the special counsel's team has talked to Attor...
Three days into a partial government shutdown, the Senate has passed a bill to fund the government through February 8th. The bill does not include a f...
The federal government is now in a partial shutdown. Funding ran out just after midnight, after the Senate failed to pass a short-term spending bill....
It's been almost exactly a year since President Trump was sworn in. In front of a live audience at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C., the NPR Pol...
