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1399 episodes transcribedFormer President Donald Trump wrapped up this week’s Republican National Convention on Thursday night with the longest speech in convention history. H...
Wednesday was jam-packed with new developments on and around the Democratic campaign trail. The White House announced that President Biden tested posi...
On the outskirts of this week's Republican National Convention, the ultra-conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation held a "Policy Fest" to disc...
Former President Donald Trump chose Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate on Monday, just as Republicans kicked off their national convention in Mi...
On Saturday, a gunman attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at one of his campaign rallies in Pennsylvania. While Trump was not serio...
Why isn’t there a way for party leaders to get together—in a back room, ideally somewhere dark and smokey—and just give Biden the boot? As it turns ou...
President Joe Biden on Thursday wrapped up this week’s NATO summit in Washington by giving his first solo press conference since November. Despite mor...
Lawmakers continue to weigh in on the fate of President Biden’s re-election campaign. Vermont’s Peter Welch on Wednesday became the first Democratic s...
Republicans appeared to soften their stance on abortion ahead of next week’s party convention and adopted a policy platform this week that didn’t incl...
President Biden continued to aggressively push back on the idea that he would drop out of the presidential race. He started Monday morning by sending...
President Joe Biden spent the long July Fourth weekend trying to save his re-election bid after his disastrous debate performance more than a week ago...
We may be starting to see a seismic shift in how the Democratic Party publicly talks about whether President Joe Biden should remain the party’s presu...
The Supreme Court's conservative majority handed former President Donald Trump a major win on Monday, granting him broad — though not full — immunity...
The Biden campaign spent the weekend trying to contain the damage from the president’s devastating performance in Thursday night’s presidential debate...
Why is America so obsessed with lawns and order? Max and Erin get into the weeds of how the founding fathers made cultivating grass an American pastim...
Well… that happened. In the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle, President Biden failed to ease concerns about his age, igniting pani...
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are set to square off tonight in their first debate of the presidential election — and the first...
Ready or not, tomorrow is debate day. And both President Joe Biden, 81, and former President Donald Trump, 78, are under a lot of pressure to show the...
In today’s New York primary elections, voters in the state’s 16th Congressional District will decide what’s become the most expensive House primary ra...
Today marks two years since the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority overturned Roe vs. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that for decad...
