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1268 episodes transcribedVoters in more than 30 states will get to weigh in on elections for their state supreme courts this November, with 82 seats up for grabs. While state...
We're officially fewer than 50 days out from Election Day. While most of the attention has been on the five states that decided the 2020 race for Pres...
2024 is on track to be the biggest year for public stadium subsidies we’ve ever seen. Billionaire team owners keep asking for—and receiving—more exorb...
Thursday night kicked off the start of week two of the NFL season. And after years of ceding the proverbial playing field to Republicans, Democrats ar...
It’s been about a week since federal agents seized the phones of New York Police Commissioner Edward Caban and other top NYPD officials. Caban is one...
On Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off in their first and currently only scheduled presidential de...
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are set to square off tonight in their first — and so far only — scheduled debate befor...
Arizona is one of 10 states where voters will get to weigh in directly on abortion access in November in the form of a ballot measure that would enshr...
Brazil’s power struggle with Elon Musk over censorship on X (formerly Twitter) escalated this week, with the country’s Supreme Court upholding a ban o...
Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign kicked off a weeks-long reproductive freedom bus tour this week, with a 50-stop route that runs through some o...
Georgia police on Wednesday said four people were killed, and nine others were taken to the hospital with injuries after a shooting at Apalachee High...
A new poll from ABC News/Ipsos adds more evidence to reports of a growing gender divide among voters heading into the November election. It shows Vice...
Israel 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...
