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284 episodes transcribedPresident Trump says he plans to designate antifa as a "major terrorist organization." It's unclear how he'll go about that, but even the suggestion c...
For the past month, National Guard troops deployed in Washington D.C. have been patrolling low-crime areas and picking up garbage. NPR spoke to some o...
NPR speaks with Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, about the conversation emerging around free speech in the wake of Ch...
Vice President Vance and other high-profile political figures have called for people who speak negatively online about the assassination of Charlie Ki...
NPR's Michel Martin asks former FBI counterterrorism analyst Javed Ali about the next steps in the investigation into Charlie Kirk's assassination.Sup...
Four prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases have found a way to continue public service after leaving the Justice Department. They're all collea...
The killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at a university in Utah is the latest in a string of acts of political violence in recent...
What does the sharp downward revision in jobs data suggest about the health of the U.S. economy? NPR speaks with David Wessel, senior fellow at the Br...
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Erica Groshen, former head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about employment data and what politicization of the...
Climate.gov went dark after cuts from the Trump administration. Now, a group of former employees are trying to revive it under a new domain.Support NP...
A federal judge found the Trump administration acted illegally when it froze more than $2.2 billion in research funding for Harvard University. The Wh...
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration's use of the National Guard in Los Angeles was illegal. Meanwhile, the president maintaine...
The Trump administration has begun terminating its collective bargaining agreements with federal employee unions, despite multiple lawsuits challengin...
President Trump says taking a 10% stake in Intel will be good for the company and the country. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Michael Strain of the Ame...
A lawyer who represented violent rioters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and compared their prosecutions to the Nazi genocide...
U.S. warships are heading to the waters off Venezuela in a significant show of force by the Trump administration. Officials say the ship are part of t...
The Justice Department says cities and states risk legal action if they fail to comply with federal immigration law. Democratic leaders are pushing ba...
The Trump administration is pursuing an unusual deal that would make the U.S. government a major stakeholder in chipmaker Intel. NPR unpacks the propo...
President Trump announced Monday on his social media site, Truth Social, that he plans to "lead a movement" to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting m...
As the U.S. capital braces for a second week with soldiers and masked federal agents conducting "roving patrols" on the city streets, President Trump...
