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1562 episodes transcribedThis week, the Senate will hold a confirmation hearing for Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump's pick to replace Kri...
The war in Iran has essentially closed the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil transfer point, sending oil prices over $100 a barrel wit...
The war with Iran has already killed more than a thousand Iranians, including 175 people killed at an elementary school on February 28th. Remember Am...
The war with Iran has already killed more than a thousand Iranians, including 175 people killed at an elementary school on February 28th. According t...
In case you haven’t noticed, the American economy isn't doing so well right now. Oil prices have been on an absolute rollercoaster since the Iran war...
The Iran war is a little over a week old and the Trump administration has supplied more than a dozen explanations about why, exactly, it began. Confu...
President Donald Trump wants to dramatically change how Americans vote, and to make that happen he’s holding all other legislation hostage until Cong...
On Thursday, President Donald Trump fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem via a Truth Social post. Her tenure was marked by a p...
Three states – North Carolina, Arkansas, and Texas – held primaries Tuesday. The turnout was massive, but so were the stakes, with the balance of pow...
The U.S.-Israeli war in Iran is sowing death and chaos, surely, but with ship traffic avoiding Iran’s shores, the war’s also threatening the global e...
Today, Trump officials brief all of Congress on what, exactly, the administration’s objectives are in Iran. Until now, the Trump administration has g...
Over the weekend, the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes that reportedly hit more than 2,000 targets across Iran. In response, Iran struck sites acr...
On Thursday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified in front of the House Oversight Committee to answer questions during their investiga...
The Texas Senate primary is already setting records for both Republicans and Democrats, with more than $110 million spent on advertising and reserved...
Trump’s State of the Union address had everything — if by “everything,” you mean easily fact-checkable lies. We also got fearmongering and racism abo...
President Trump will deliver the State of the Union address tonight. And spoiler… the state of his particular union isn't great. According to new pol...
The 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...
