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260 episodes transcribedPresident Trump has tried to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In the latest example, the Department of Justice hire...
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about a Trump administration decision to end funding for research into vaccines that f...
The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA...
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erica Groshen about the firing of one of her successors over the latest j...
A federal judge on Monday ruled that Congress and the Trump administration are not allowed to stop Medicaid payments from going to Planned Parenthood....
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may soon dismiss the members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an advisory panel o...
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with political analyst and pollster Frank Luntz about how Trump's most loyal supporters think about the controversy surrou...
The Trump administration is under pressure to release more documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. That's even after a Florida judge declined t...
The Justice Department has asked Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein, for a meeting as it looks to make new inroads into what...
In a clash of conservative titans, President Trump sued Rupert Murdoch after the 'Wall Street Journal published a story about a bawdy birthday card Tr...
As a candidate, President Trump promised to change America's foreign policy. Six months into his second administration, NPR's Tamara Keith examines wh...
The controversy surrounding President Trump and the so-called Epstein files has moved back to the legal system as he threatens to sue The Wall Street...
President Trump called Republicans who demand the release of more Epstein probe details "weaklings." NPR asks GOP strategist Alex Conant whether it's...
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled to allow the Trump administration to resume its efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. What will tha...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that it would allow the Trump administration to resume dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. NPR's Cory Tu...
Polling suggests a drop in support for the Trump administration's immigration policies and its aggressive deportation agenda.Support NPR and hear ever...
DOGE recently got high-level access to a database that controls billions of dollars in government payments to farmers and ranchers across the U.S.Supp...
NPR asks Chad Berginnis, executive director of the Association of State Floodplain Managers, about the kind of support the government offers to those...
The Trump administration can move ahead, for now, with plans to lay off hundreds of thousands of federal workers following a U.S. Supreme Court decisi...
The DOJ has sued the entire federal district court in Maryland over an order that puts a temporary hold on deportations, intensifying a confrontation...
