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1537 episodes transcribedYesterday 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...
2021 is done, and we are excited to tell you all about what you need to know throughout 2022. In our first episode of the year, we talk about the big...
The year is coming to a close, so we look back at the stories we thought were the biggest and most memorable of 2021. We talk about the historic visib...
As we jump head first into the holiday season, COVID-19 news has been overwhelming. Britain logged its highest number of daily COVID cases ever, attri...
Tens of thousands of military families in O’ahu have been living without clean water for weeks after their water well was contaminated with petroleum....
We’ve reached another grim benchmark since the pandemic began almost two years ago. According to the New York Times database, the U.S. has reached 50...
At least 100 people have died after tornadoes ripped through at least six states on Friday night. Search and rescue efforts continued throughout the w...
Today is the last day that Congress is scheduled to be in session for 2021. Just yesterday, the Senate voted and paved the way for Democrats to raise...
Today, votes will be counted in the effort to unionize three Starbucks stores in Buffalo, New York, with the result expected this afternoon. If that v...
Redistricting efforts are underway across the country, but it's become a contentious process. The Department of Justice, for example, filed a lawsuit...
The US Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit against Texas over the state's recently updated redistricting maps. The DOJ claims that Texas's m...
Omicron cases were found in at least 17 U.S. states and they aren’t all due to travel to southern Africa. Public health officials and experts say that...
