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1303 episodes transcribedThursday marked one month since President Donald Trump officially took office. Since then, he’s signed dozens of executive orders. And the fallout fro...
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traded public barbs on Wednesday, one day after top White House and Russian officia...
President Donald Trump has a problem with journalists, particularly those who do or say things he doesn’t like. His latest fight is with the Associate...
President Donald Trump said on the campaign trail that he wants to end the Department of Education and return teaching “to the states.” And now that h...
The Justice Department is in turmoil after more than half a dozen federal prosecutors resigned rather than sign their names to a motion to dismiss cor...
Democratic state attorneys general have been a major thorn in President Donald Trump's side since he returned to the White House last month. They've s...
Inflation rose more than expected in January according to federal data released Wednesday, as the cost of things like groceries, housing and energy ti...
More than two dozen Christian and Jewish organizations sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its decision to let immigration agents make arrests...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has become the latest federal agency in the Trump administration's crosshairs. On Friday, unelected billionai...
We're three weeks into President Donald Trump's second term, and already Democratic lawmakers are warning that we're in a constitutional crisis. They...
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development continued Thursday. Multiple news outlets reported the Trump administration plans to...
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has seemingly been waging a personal war on the federal government via his Department of Government Efficiency. In...
We’re a little over two weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, and already his foreign policy doctrine could be generously described as “all...
As of Monday evening, President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on Canada and Mexico are on hold for at least 30 days. But that could all change as th...
Thousands of trans people serving in the armed forces are worried that their careers are in real peril after President Donald Trump signed an executiv...
An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, and an Army helicopter on a routine training flight collided over the Potomac River late Wednesday n...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act, a new law that requires law enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants who are accu...
A federal judge late Tuesday paused a sweeping order from the Trump administration to temporarily freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and lo...
The Trump administration late Sunday ordered federal health officials to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. It fo...
President Donald Trump fired up his social media account Sunday to say the U.S. would immediately slap a 25 percent tariff on all goods from Colombia,...
