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1536 episodes transcribedIsrael spent the last few days engulfed in mass protests and paralyzed by a national strike after the bodies of six hostages, including an American Is...
2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record, beating out the current #1…2023. In a world where extreme heat is becoming the norm and more and mo...
As we've been covering on the show for a while now, Republican-led states across the country are attacking trans communities by banning or attempting...
Special Counsel Jack Smith is on a roll this week. On Monday, he asked an Atlanta-based appeals court to revive his federal classified documents case...
In a letter to Republican Rep. Jim Jordan released on Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed the Biden Administration "repeatedly pressured" the co...
Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are campaigning this week in Georgia, one of the most crucial swing states in this year's pre...
At last week’s Democratic National Convention, organizers tried to put unity on display by featuring speakers with a range of ideological viewpoints w...
The balloons are deflated. The halls have gone quiet. And the entire city of Chicago is, once more, nursing a hangover. But did the DNC really change...
Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepted the Democratic nomination for President Thursday night on the final day of the Democratic National Co...
The Democratic National Convention continued Wednesday night as Tim Walz formally accepted the nomination for Vice President. He went full "coach mode...
Tuesday night’s DNC turned into a raucous celebration as delegates from each state showed off their local pride while casting their votes for Vice Pre...
On Monday night, President Joe Biden kicked off the Democratic National Convention. In his speech, a political swan song, Biden looked back on his maj...
The Democratic National Convention kicks off today in Chicago. While Vice President Kamala Harris is riding a lot of positive momentum into the DNC ah...
It’s been about a month since former President Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance to be his running mate on the Republican ticket. And in that short amount...
Eight years after Michelle Obama's famous "When they go low, we go high" speech, Democrats have been changing their rhetorical strategy on the campaig...
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar easily won her primary race on Tuesday in a rematch against an opponent she beat by just a few thousand votes two years ago....
Across the West Coast, cities and counties are still figuring out their approach to homelessness roughly a month after the Supreme Court gave them the...
On Monday, The FBI confirmed it's investigating claims that Iran hacked the Trump campaign. The agency did not publicly release additional information...
Vice President Kamala Harris is well on her way to shoring up the kind of historic support from Black voters that was starting to slip away from Presi...
In front of a crowd of thousands at a rally in Philadelphia this week, Vice President Kamala Harris made her first appearance with her newly-minted ru...
