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1392 episodes transcribedThe Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt one of its first blows to President Donald Trump’s aggressive agenda to reshape how the federal government works....
President Donald Trump gave his first speech to the American people since taking office Tuesday night, and it was long. The president's address to Con...
Tonight, President Trump will give his first major address to the nation since the inauguration of his second term. He’ll probably talk about how grea...
European leaders met for an emergency summit in London Sunday to shore up support for Ukraine and wrest control of ceasefire talks with Russia. The ru...
WAD is taking a break from the daily horror show that is political news to talk about the scandals plaguing another American institution: Hollywood. S...
Tax season is upon us, with millions of Americans preparing to file lots of complicated paperwork with the Internal Revenue Service to figure out how...
Right now, it feels like President Donald Trump and billionaire ‘first buddy’ Elon Musk are holding all the political cards. While we’re out here just...
As House Republicans prepare to begin voting on their big policy blueprint this week, one of the programs they're targeting for major cuts is Medicaid...
The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, wrapped up Saturday. While billionaire Elon Musk ate up a lot of the attention by wielding an a...
Thursday marked one month since President Donald Trump officially took office. Since then, he’s signed dozens of executive orders. And the fallout fro...
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traded public barbs on Wednesday, one day after top White House and Russian officia...
President Donald Trump has a problem with journalists, particularly those who do or say things he doesn’t like. His latest fight is with the Associate...
President Donald Trump said on the campaign trail that he wants to end the Department of Education and return teaching “to the states.” And now that h...
The Justice Department is in turmoil after more than half a dozen federal prosecutors resigned rather than sign their names to a motion to dismiss cor...
Democratic state attorneys general have been a major thorn in President Donald Trump's side since he returned to the White House last month. They've s...
Inflation rose more than expected in January according to federal data released Wednesday, as the cost of things like groceries, housing and energy ti...
More than two dozen Christian and Jewish organizations sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its decision to let immigration agents make arrests...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has become the latest federal agency in the Trump administration's crosshairs. On Friday, unelected billionai...
We're three weeks into President Donald Trump's second term, and already Democratic lawmakers are warning that we're in a constitutional crisis. They...
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development continued Thursday. Multiple news outlets reported the Trump administration plans to...
