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1546 episodes transcribedThe Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on Friday that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority when he invoked sweeping tariffs using a 1970s emergen...
It’s been about a week since the Department of Homeland Security entered a partial shutdown, with Democrats refusing to fund the agency until changes...
The IRS has lost tens of thousands of employees since President Donald Trump took office – the result of DOGE, policy differences, last year’s govern...
U.S. officials met with Iranian envoys in Switzerland Tuesday to negotiate the fate of Iran’s nuclear program — and came away with a “set of guiding...
It's been about a year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order, "Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission."...
Capitol Hill was surprisingly busy this week. Republicans and Democrats yelled at one another, Republicans yelled at other Republicans, and amazingly...
The Department of Justice fumbled yet another attempt to prosecute President Donald Trump’s enemies on Tuesday night. This time, it failed to get an...
Over the past year, the Trump administration has been eliminating policies aimed at slowing down climate change – and now, it may go even further. Th...
Getting justice for Epstein survivors seems impossible in the United States. But in the United Kingdom, the Epstein files could bring down the Britis...
Sunday was the Super Bowl, which means betting. A lot of betting. And even if you're not a gambler– and even if you don't particularly care about spo...
We're just one week into February, and a lot has happened already — from the fallout over the Department of Justice's Epstein file dump, to President...
The economy is in pretty much the same weird place it’s been for the past few months. Hiring is down, the cost of living is up, and no one really kno...
If you haven't been following conservative media for a long time, you might not know that there have actually been many eras of Tucker Carlson. He la...
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that all federal officers in Minneapolis will now wear body cameras. She also...
President Trump is still not over the fact that he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, which might be why last Wednesday, the FBI execu...
Senate Democrats were ready to shut down the government Friday night in order to get much-needed reforms to ICE and Border Patrol — but they didn’t ne...
Minneapolis is still under ICE’s thumb — and contrary to the Trump Administration and some media reports, ICE has not “de-escalated” in the Twin Citie...
U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio is expected to publicly testify Wednesday about what exactly the U.S. has planned fo...
There’s a massive funding package making its way through Congress this week. It includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security, including Im...
On Saturday, Alex Pretti – a 37-year-old registered nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis – was shot and killed by Border Patrol agent...
