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1268 episodes transcribedThe NAACP is urging the Justice Department to bring federal civil rights charges against Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who murdered 17-ye...
As we celebrate the beginning of Black History Month, conservatives are actively and aggressively silencing educators’ ability to talk honestly about...
Concerns of a possible Russian invasion into Ukraine continue to mount, with Britain moving this week to broaden the sanctions it could impose in case...
President Biden reaffirmed his commitment to nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court yesterday, and said that he would announce his choice by th...
The 83-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer intends to retire at the end of this Supreme Court term in June, according to multiple reports yesterday. The o...
Russia conducted a series of military drills yesterday while Ukraine received a shipment of weapons including antitank missiles from the U.S. These we...
The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will hear cases on the right of universities to consider race in admissions. The court has historically...
New U.S. cases of COVID are down slightly from the peak brought on by the Omicron variant. Average daily cases are closer to 700,000 than 800,000, whi...
A number of inquiries into former President Trump’s interference in the 2020 election are advancing. Yesterday, the House committee investigating last...
Today is the first anniversary of President Biden taking office. Yesterday, he held his first formal news conference in months to discuss his administ...
Tensions between the U.S. and Russia are rising after last week’s summit in Geneva ended with no resolution between the two countries over Ukraine. We...
Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In addition to fighting racial inequality, working to pass major civil rights laws, and more, Martin Luther...
The Supreme Court yesterday blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to enforce a vaccine or testing mandate for private employers. Meanwhile, Senat...
Hollywood is going through some massive changes. The Golden Globes, usually the start of awards show season, was a non-event when it took place earlie...
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Atlanta, Georgia yesterday to make a stand for voting rights. Absent from the audienc...
Former Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud investors, last week. U.S. prosecutors declared the high-pr...
President Biden announced last month that his administration purchased 500 million at-home Covid-19 tests that Americans will be able to order for fre...
Voting rights have gone back to being the White House’s top priority, but Congress is struggling to pass protections because Senate Democrats must con...
Today marks a year since the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol where supporters of former President Donald Trump tried to violently overturn the 2020 e...
The Omicron variant has absolutely exploded in the US in the last few weeks. On Monday alone, the U.S. reported an astonishing record 1.08 million cas...
