The NPR Politics Podcast

Fri, 07 Mar 2025

In a cabinet meeting this week, President Trump affirmed that while DOGE — the entity meant to res...

Thu, 06 Mar 2025

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to enact tariffs on some of the United States' largest ...

Wed, 05 Mar 2025

Immigration was a major campaign issue for Donald Trump as he sought to return to the White House. N...

Wed, 05 Mar 2025

In the longest address of its kind before Congress in recent memory, President Trump laid out his po...

Mon, 03 Mar 2025

In a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, a majority of respondents think the state of the union is not str...

Sat, 01 Mar 2025

Federal judges have enormous power over their courtrooms and their chambers, which can leave employe...

Fri, 28 Feb 2025

Congress is trying to come up with a new budget, while also attempting to extend tax cuts put in pla...

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

Syria is in the midst of rebuilding after a long civil war and the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's reg...

Wed, 26 Feb 2025

Proposals from DOGE, Elon Musk's entity tasked with making the federal government more "efficient," ...

Tue, 25 Feb 2025

People who work for the federal court system don't have the same kinds of job protections that most ...

Mon, 24 Feb 2025

Over the weekend, the Trump administration fired several high-ranking military leaders and announced...

Fri, 21 Feb 2025

Kash Patel was confirmed as the new FBI director yesterday despite questions about his qualification...

Thu, 20 Feb 2025

Sen. Mitch McConnell announced today that he would not seek reelection when his term is over in 2026...

Wed, 19 Feb 2025

Democrats lost the Senate and the White House in November's elections. Now as a minority party, thei...

Tue, 18 Feb 2025

President Trump has shifted U.S. policy regarding the war between Ukraine and Russia. On Tuesday, Th...

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

He campaigned on lowering the cost of household goods, but inflation remains outside the range the F...

Fri, 14 Feb 2025

The Department of Justice instructed prosecutors to dismiss federal corruption charges against New Y...

Thu, 13 Feb 2025

The unit, led by Elon Musk, has run into legal obstacles as it continues its rapid efforts to change...

Wed, 12 Feb 2025

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promoted an "America First" approach. How does that translate to...

Tue, 11 Feb 2025

Alongside newly announced universal tariffs on aluminum and steel imports, President Trump has levie...

Mon, 10 Feb 2025

The government agency formed in the wake of the Great Recession acts to regulate financial products,...

Fri, 07 Feb 2025

The Trump administration's offer for federal employees to resign now and keep their pay and benefits...

Thu, 06 Feb 2025

At a Tuesday press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump said h...

Wed, 05 Feb 2025

Congress is supposed to hold the power of the purse. So what do Republicans in Congress think about ...

Tue, 04 Feb 2025

Elon Musk is keeping his campaign promise of trying to cut $2 trillion of federal spending through h...

Mon, 03 Feb 2025

This past weekend, President Trump imposed new tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. He has since wa...

Fri, 31 Jan 2025

Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead the FBI, and Tulsi Gabbard, his nominee for intelligence chief, had...

Thu, 30 Jan 2025

On Monday, the White House budget office ordered a freeze on all federal funding. Yesterday, the Whi...

Wed, 29 Jan 2025

During his confirmation hearing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump's pick to run Health and Huma...

Tue, 28 Jan 2025

The White House budget office has ordered a pause on all federal grants, loans, and financial assist...

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

This past weekend, President Trump showed the country how he plans to govern in his second term. On ...

Fri, 24 Jan 2025

President Trump campaigned on a promise of mass deportation and reducing the size of the federal wor...

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

During his inaugural address, President Trump said, "I will also declare a national energy emergency...

Wed, 22 Jan 2025

The president argues such programs, meant to increase the diversity of the federal workforce, were d...

Tue, 21 Jan 2025

Fulfilling a campaign promise, President Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people who had been charged ...

Mon, 20 Jan 2025

"I return to the presidency, confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new er...

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

Senate confirmation hearings for President-elect Trump's cabinet picks continued Friday, as Gov. Kri...

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

After more than a year of fighting, President Biden announced a ceasefire agreement between Israel a...

Wed, 15 Jan 2025

President-elect Trump's picks to run the Departments of Justice and State faced senators today in co...

Tue, 14 Jan 2025

The Department of Justice's long-awaited election interference report against Donald Trump, released...

Mon, 13 Jan 2025

The Los Angeles area has been devastated by wildfires over the past week. As officials work to get t...

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced today in his New York hush money case. While there weren'...

Thu, 09 Jan 2025

Former president Jimmy Carter was honored today at Washington's National Cathedral. The funeral brou...

Wed, 08 Jan 2025

When he took office, President Biden promised to diversify the federal bench. During his four years ...

Tue, 07 Jan 2025

President-elect Donald Trump held a press conference today from his home in Mar-a-Lago. Topics of di...

Mon, 06 Jan 2025

Every four years, Congress meets to certify the results of the previous November's presidential elec...

Fri, 03 Jan 2025

The FBI continues investigating the motivation of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who drove a truck into a crowd...

Thu, 02 Jan 2025

Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign did not place him at the ideological center of the Republi...

Wed, 01 Jan 2025

From The Indicator from Planet Money:President-elect Donald Trump made a lot of economic promises on...

Tue, 31 Dec 2024

Trump campaigned on mass deportation, sweeping tariffs & other widespread changes to U.S. policy. Ho...

Mon, 30 Dec 2024

Though he only served one term, Jimmy Carter occupies a unique place among U.S. presidents. His pres...

Fri, 27 Dec 2024

We look back on some of the highlights from 2024 that we just can't stop thinking about, politics or...

Thu, 26 Dec 2024

As president, Biden sought to restore faith in the United States' abilities as a world leader, but w...

Wed, 25 Dec 2024

Democrats lost the race for the White House, and lost control of the Senate, in 2024. But, after hol...

Tue, 24 Dec 2024

In his four years in office, President Biden managed to get significant legislation passed, but also...

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

Joe Biden has been a national political figure for more than 20 percent of the United States' histor...

Sun, 22 Dec 2024

NPR senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith has been looking at what Donald Trump did in early...

Fri, 20 Dec 2024

Lawmakers are up against a deadline of midnight Friday to pass a bill to fund the government. What's...

Thu, 19 Dec 2024

For a few hours, Congress looked poised to avoid a government shutdown by passing a new short-term s...

Wed, 18 Dec 2024

Lawmakers face a Friday deadline to fund the federal government through March; will it get passed? A...

Tue, 17 Dec 2024

The effects of the 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion cont...

Mon, 16 Dec 2024

The president-elect spoke to the media for more than an hour at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida....

Fri, 13 Dec 2024

In a new report, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice looked into FBI sh...

Thu, 12 Dec 2024

Tulsi Gabbard doesn't have the typical background for a director of national intelligence, but the f...

Wed, 11 Dec 2024

He was a public defender and former national security aide. He is a fierce critic of the justice dep...

Tue, 10 Dec 2024

After more than 50 years in power, the Assad regime has fallen in Syria. How does the situation in S...

Mon, 09 Dec 2024

President-elect Donald Trump sat down for his first broadcast television interview since winning a s...

Fri, 06 Dec 2024

Even though he doesn't take office until January, Donald Trump is already busy, nominating cabinet o...

Thu, 05 Dec 2024

After a difficult 2024 cycle, activists working to elect Democratic candidates are rethinking their ...

Wed, 04 Dec 2024

Immigration was a central focus of Donald Trump's 2024 campaign. Now that he's set to take office, w...

Tue, 03 Dec 2024

Democrats lost the race for the White House, and lost control of the Senate, in 2024. But, after hol...

Mon, 02 Dec 2024

President Biden previously had said he would not issue a pardon to his son, Hunter, who was convicte...

Fri, 29 Nov 2024

Today, the second of a two-part investigation from NPR's Embedded.All Marines take an oath to defend...

Thu, 28 Nov 2024

Today, the first of a two-part investigation from NPR's Embedded.Sgt. Joshua Abate's career in the M...

Wed, 27 Nov 2024

Federal investigations into Donald Trump's actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection & alleg...

Tue, 26 Nov 2024

In a post on Truth Social Monday evening, President-elect Trump announced he plans to enact tariffs ...

Mon, 25 Nov 2024

President Biden has long supported Ukraine in its war with Russia. But, with a new Congress — and ...

Fri, 22 Nov 2024

Republicans gained among voting groups largely seen as part of the Democratic base. What's behind th...

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

The former Florida congressman's nomination encountered controversy from the start, over allegations...

Wed, 20 Nov 2024

Well before we know who wins the presidential election, a clock is ticking, counting down to the nex...

Tue, 19 Nov 2024

Even though many voters said they didn't like Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, very few who voted deci...

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has suggested he could rely on recess appointments to get his preferred...

Fri, 15 Nov 2024

President-elect Trump has named Pete Hegseth to run the Department of Defense, Matt Gaetz to run the...

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

Republicans will control both chambers of Congress and the White House, giving President-elect Trump...

Wed, 13 Nov 2024

Donald Trump's election win took the wind from the sails of his election fraud conspiracy movement. ...

Tue, 12 Nov 2024

Evangelical Latino voters at one Pennsylvania church told NPR that they thought Donald Trump would s...

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

Suffice it to say the economy is quite complicated and making sense of the specific impact of any on...

Fri, 08 Nov 2024

Almost the whole country shifted right since 2020, but the degree to which different groups changed ...

Thu, 07 Nov 2024

Vice President Harris conceded the race to President-elect Trump and implored her supporters to carr...

Wed, 06 Nov 2024

Donald Trump is heading back to the Oval Office, according to the Associated Press. Vice President H...

Wed, 06 Nov 2024

Donald Trump is poised to win the election and will likely return to the White House as the 47th pre...

Mon, 04 Nov 2024

In our final podcast before voting concludes, we discuss the small boost Vice President Harris saw i...

Fri, 01 Nov 2024

On today's NPR Politics Podcast: Math Edition, we look at Vice President Harris' possible paths to 2...

Thu, 31 Oct 2024

David Scott of the Associated Press shares how his organization discerns the winner of the country's...

Wed, 30 Oct 2024

Democrats have prevailed in recent presidential elections in the state, in part thanks to a robust u...

Tue, 29 Oct 2024

The world is too complex to divine who will win this year's presidential election from the early-vot...

Mon, 28 Oct 2024

Donald Trump's campaign disavowed one of several bigoted remarks made by his allies ahead of the can...

Fri, 25 Oct 2024

Vice President Harris and former president Donald Trump are focused on the same thing: the unprecede...

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

Elon Musk has gone all in on Trump and put $75 million into a super PAC he created to support the ca...

Wed, 23 Oct 2024

Former President Donald Trump has talked about using the Department of Justice to go after those he...

Tue, 22 Oct 2024

The House of Representatives is currently narrowly controlled by Republicans, but with both Speaker ...

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

Both candidates were together in Michigan this weekend started their weekends in Michigan, where Vic...

Fri, 18 Oct 2024

As Election Day nears, the campaigns of both Kamala Harris & Donald Trump kicked into high gear. Bot...

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

As campaign season started, many American voters expressed a dislike of both Joe Biden and Donald Tr...

Wed, 16 Oct 2024

Between a competitive Senate race, a measure to liberalize abortion rights & a measure concerning im...

Tue, 15 Oct 2024

Polls ahead of Election Day show an ever tightening race between Vice President Kamala Harris and fo...

Mon, 14 Oct 2024

Voting looks a little different in 2024 than it did during the last presidential election. In this e...

Fri, 11 Oct 2024

Donald Trump campaigns in Aurora, Colorado today, a city that he's targeted with the brand of anti-i...

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

After hurricanes Helene and Milton battered the south, both former President Trump and Vice Presiden...

Wed, 09 Oct 2024

They vote in large numbers. They're a part of the electorate that usually gets courted heavily. But ...

Tue, 08 Oct 2024

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are both leveraging popular entertainment media to reach voters who m...

Mon, 07 Oct 2024

This presidential cycle is the closest in recent memory and, despite what feels like an never-ending...

Fri, 04 Oct 2024

Vice President Harris traveled to the birthplace of the Republican Party in Wisconsin this week to c...

Thu, 03 Oct 2024

Voters in a record number of states, including the battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada, are set to d...

Wed, 02 Oct 2024

Democratic under-performance in New York state cost the party control of the House of Representative...

Wed, 02 Oct 2024

This vice presidential debate in New York City, hosted by CBS News, is the only time Ohio Sen. JD Va...

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

NPR's live special coverage of the CBS News Presidential Debate Simulcast begins Tuesday night at 9:...

Fri, 27 Sep 2024

Folks with Puerto Rican heritage represent a small but vital part of the electorate in Pennsylvania,...

Thu, 26 Sep 2024

Kamala Harris' running mate Gov. Tim Walz has spent his time in the key mid-west states and is in ma...

Wed, 25 Sep 2024

The most immediate challenge for the next president: the U.S. is both deeply involved in both of the...

Tue, 24 Sep 2024

Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson described himself, according to CNN reporting, as a "...

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

Kamala Harris often quotes her mother on the campaign trail: "Don't let people tell you who you are....

Fri, 20 Sep 2024

Vice President Harris sat down with Oprah Winfrey for a campaign event that was reminiscent of the t...

Thu, 19 Sep 2024

It just got cheaper to borrow money in the United States; the Federal Reserve cut interest rates, si...

Wed, 18 Sep 2024

Donald Trump's rhetoric on abortion care and reproductive rights has been all over the map this year...

Tue, 17 Sep 2024

Voting looks a little different in 2024 than it did during the last presidential election. We explor...

Mon, 16 Sep 2024

Former president Donald Trump appears to have been the target of a second assassination effort Sunda...

Fri, 13 Sep 2024

The influential pop star threw her support behind Vice President Kamala Harris in an Instagram post ...

Thu, 12 Sep 2024

It's an allegation that's centuries old, but is increasingly becoming prominent in political discour...

Wed, 11 Sep 2024

Following Tuesday's debate, both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are ...

Wed, 11 Sep 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris went on the offensive against former President Donald Trump in the ABC ...

Mon, 09 Sep 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have their first — and, so far, onl...

Sat, 07 Sep 2024

What happens when political ambition collides with a #MeToo allegation in the Democratic party?Episo...

Sat, 07 Sep 2024

Did Eric Garcetti, a powerful Democrat, lie under oath about a #MeToo scandal in his office?That's t...

Fri, 06 Sep 2024

It was a busy week in U.S. courtrooms. After being convicted of 34 felonies earlier this year in a N...

Thu, 05 Sep 2024

Republicans need to flip two seats to assure their control of the Senate, and with West Virginia's o...

Wed, 04 Sep 2024

NPR tracked where the candidates are investing the most travel time and money. Unsurprisingly, the m...

Tue, 03 Sep 2024

There are fewer white people without college degrees, more Latino potential voters in key states and...

Mon, 02 Sep 2024

By now, you've probably heard a lot from both presidential nominees about getting rid of taxes on ti...

Fri, 30 Aug 2024

In her first major interview of her presidential campaign, Vice President Harris pitched policy cont...

Thu, 29 Aug 2024

Donald Trump unsuccessfully tried to pressure Georgia's political leadership to "find" him votes in ...

Wed, 28 Aug 2024

Ad spending in the 2024 presidential election is nearing $2 billion. With Vice President Kamala Harr...

Tue, 27 Aug 2024

Each talks about patriotism. Each talks about their strengths as leaders. But, the visions of Americ...

Mon, 26 Aug 2024

Kamala Harris has a number of paths to the 270 electoral votes she needs to secure the presidency, a...

Fri, 23 Aug 2024

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., whose conspiracy-minded presidential campaign failed to gain traction with t...

Fri, 23 Aug 2024

In her speech formally accepting the Democratic party's presidential nomination, Kamala Harris empha...

Thu, 22 Aug 2024

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota delivered a speech introducing himself and formally accepting his nominat...

Wed, 21 Aug 2024

President Obama and Michelle Obama delivered rousing speeches on the second night of the Democratic ...

Tue, 20 Aug 2024

Night one of the Democratic convention showcased a party in transition. Hillary Clinton and Presiden...

Fri, 16 Aug 2024

Kamala Harris has seen her campaign continue to gain momentum as Donald Trump has struggled to find ...

Thu, 15 Aug 2024

Kamala Harris wants to combat "corporate price gouging." Donald Trump wants to eliminate taxes on So...

Wed, 14 Aug 2024

President Biden saw a groundswell of protest during the Democratic primary as hundreds of thousands ...

Tue, 13 Aug 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris is using her record as a prosecutor to her advantage in the campaign ag...

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

In 2018, Tim Walz said he carried weaponry "in war" when pushing for gun control, despite never serv...

Fri, 09 Aug 2024

Former President Trump held a long, meandering press conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence on Thurs...

Thu, 08 Aug 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris opened a narrow lead over former President Trump in the latest NPR/PBS ...

Wed, 07 Aug 2024

She's a historic major party nominee, but her gender and race aren't cornerstones of Kamala Harris' ...

Tue, 06 Aug 2024

Walz, 60, is a veteran and former schoolteacher who has been governor of Minnesota since 2019. Why d...

Mon, 05 Aug 2024

As election day nears, Vice President Harris and former President Trump will focus their campaigns i...

Fri, 02 Aug 2024

Former president Trump is still working to distance himself from the Project 2025 policy proposals c...

Thu, 01 Aug 2024

With Vice Present Harris replacing President Biden as the likely Democratic nominee, early surveys o...

Wed, 31 Jul 2024

President Biden's plan to fix the Supreme Court is going nowhere quickly, but the ideas he is propos...

Tue, 30 Jul 2024

Traditionally, vice presidential nominees are meant to bring balance to a political ticket without a...

Mon, 29 Jul 2024

JD Vance has been careful not to claim he served in a combat role while deployed to Iraq as a Marine...

Fri, 26 Jul 2024

Vice President Harris continues to pull in fistfuls of money and has secured another key endorsement...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

The vice president has been more vocal on the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza strip than President B...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

The president was emphatic about the threat that Donald Trump poses to American democracy. He said t...

Tue, 23 Jul 2024

In a speech at her campaign headquarters, Vice President Harris highlighted her background as a pros...

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

Vice President Harris faces no major opposition for the Democratic nomination. The fundraising platf...

Sun, 21 Jul 2024

Biden strenuously resisted pressure to step down from the campaign for weeks after a debate in which...

Fri, 19 Jul 2024

In a lengthy speech formally accepting the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump made hi...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

J.D. Vance is 39 years-old and has been in office as Ohio's junior U.S. senator for less than two ye...

Wed, 17 Jul 2024

Night two of the Republican National Convention was full of speeches by former Trump rivals offering...

Tue, 16 Jul 2024

We're reporting from Milwaukee, Wisc., where the Republican National Convention kicked off by offici...

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

President Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office. He used the remarks to again decry politi...

Sun, 14 Jul 2024

The former president was rushed off the stage by the Secret Service. Trump said in a statement on hi...

Fri, 12 Jul 2024

After this week's NATO summit in Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden held a rare, solo press confe...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

Often frustrated by Washington bureaucracy and red tape in his first term, former President Trump ai...

Wed, 10 Jul 2024

What is Donald Trump's plan for a second term? He's got ideas of his own, the Republican party has r...

Tue, 09 Jul 2024

Over the weekend, a number of high-level congressional Democrats called for the president to step ba...

Mon, 08 Jul 2024

Amid a frenetic campaign newscycle, we take a look at some of the very real challenges that the next...

Fri, 05 Jul 2024

With Congress returning to Washington next week and more lawmakers raising the possibility that Pres...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024

Our friends at the Indicator from Planet Money caught up with congressional correspondent Deirdre Wa...

Wed, 03 Jul 2024

As President Joe Biden continued to face fallout from his poor performance at the CNN Presidential D...

Tue, 02 Jul 2024

In our wrap of the Supreme Court term, we reflect on the huge number of consequential rulings and ex...

Mon, 01 Jul 2024

What the ruling means for the charges against Donald Trump, the power of the presidency and the move...

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

The Supreme Court largely punted on abortion access and curtailed a law the Department of Justice ha...

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

President Biden fumbled in the CNN Presidential Debate, offering often rambling answers in a hoarse ...

Wed, 26 Jun 2024

Many folks have tuned out the news, unenthused about the rematch between historical unpopular presid...

Tue, 25 Jun 2024

Julian Assange, who has long been imprisoned in the United Kingdom, has agreed to plead guilty to a ...

Mon, 24 Jun 2024

Independent voters aren't necessarily swing voters. Most usually vote with one party. But in Arizona...

Fri, 21 Jun 2024

Like two heavyweights looking for a rematch, President Biden and former President Trump have their f...

Thu, 20 Jun 2024

Nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion has been playing a large r...

Wed, 19 Jun 2024

Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., didn't expect to run for the Senate. But when Sen. Bob Menendez was indicted ...

Tue, 18 Jun 2024

In an executive action released today, President Biden announced plans to offer protection against d...

Mon, 17 Jun 2024

Young voters historically vote for Democrats. But, former President Trump's style and rhetoric are d...

Fri, 14 Jun 2024

Donald Trump returned to Capitol Hill for the first time since his supporters disrupted the peaceful...

Thu, 13 Jun 2024

In a unanimous decision, the justices ruled that the litigants did not have standing to bring the ca...

Wed, 12 Jun 2024

As abortion access advocates canvas the state gathering signatures to get a ballot initiative in fro...

Tue, 11 Jun 2024

Hunter Biden, the president's son, has been convicted on three felony charges tied to his purchase o...

Mon, 10 Jun 2024

The Biden campaign has hired a former Republican congressional chief-of-staff to lead its outreach t...

Fri, 07 Jun 2024

The president's son is being tried on federal firearm charges for allegedly lying about his drug use...

Thu, 06 Jun 2024

The state charges in Georgia are on ice as Donald Trump and his team pursue an appeal, with initial ...

Wed, 05 Jun 2024

In the landmark bipartisan foreign aid package that passed earlier this year, there was money for tw...

Tue, 04 Jun 2024

Following several record-high months for migrants crossings at the U.S. southern border last year, P...

Mon, 03 Jun 2024

A huge portion of the American public doesn't like its choices this presidential cycle. So what will...

Fri, 31 May 2024

Donald Trump, convicted yesterday of 34 felonies, held an event this morning where he continued his ...

Fri, 31 May 2024

Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty of falsifying business records to influence the ...

Wed, 29 May 2024

North Carolina is a purple state with a Democratic governor and a closely-divided, Republican-contro...

Tue, 28 May 2024

President Biden's steadfast commitment to Israel in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas hasn't ch...

Mon, 27 May 2024

The 2024 presidential race will come down to two key regions: the industrial Midwest and the Sun Bel...

Fri, 24 May 2024

Trump's trial enters its final stage next week as lawyers make their closing arguments and the case ...

Thu, 23 May 2024

The former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina governor continued to receive pr...

Wed, 22 May 2024

The state is vital in both candidates' path clearing the 270 electoral vote threshold necessary to w...

Tue, 21 May 2024

The diverse coalition of voters that delivered Georgia for President Biden in 2020 might not hold to...

Mon, 20 May 2024

The last time a Republican presidential nominee won the state of Minnesota was 1972, but lagging ent...

Fri, 17 May 2024

Michael Cohen, a former Donald Trump attorney and central witness for the prosecution, testified aga...

Thu, 16 May 2024

Florida recently increased criminal penalties for mistakes and possible fraud by groups who work to ...

Wed, 15 May 2024

Mass deportations, expanded presidential power and a civil service that emphasizes loyalty to the ch...

Tue, 14 May 2024

President Biden announced new tariffs on electric vehicles, semiconductors and other products to pun...

Mon, 13 May 2024

What does that distinction mean for Democrats' political fortunes come November? Will the 2024 look ...

Fri, 10 May 2024

Donald Trump remains on trial in New York state court over alleged hush money payments. This week, T...

Thu, 09 May 2024

In an interview with CNN, President Biden said he would block further U.S. shipments of weapons to I...

Thu, 09 May 2024

Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion Wednesday afternoon to remove Speaker of th...

Wed, 08 May 2024

Some members of the House Republican conference are mad at Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for a v...

Tue, 07 May 2024

With 26 weeks to go until Election Day, voters' opinions on the major candidates are forming. We exp...

Mon, 06 May 2024

As the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump faces a lot of big decisions — p...

Fri, 03 May 2024

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll highlights values differences between Democrats and Republicans, ...

Thu, 02 May 2024

NPR found that dozens of federal judges failed to disclose privately-funded travel to exclusive, oft...

Wed, 01 May 2024

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson visited Columbia University with fellow members of the House Repub...

Tue, 30 Apr 2024

A handful of Arizona Republicans are expected to join with Democratic lawmakers in order to repeal t...

Mon, 29 Apr 2024

After a series of classified national security briefings, Congress passed a law that will ban TikTok...

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

The first week of testimony in Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York centered on David Packer, t...

Thu, 25 Apr 2024

Months after Special Counsel Jack Smith first asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on Donald Trump's ...

Wed, 24 Apr 2024

Sen. Jon Tester is an experienced political strategist and capable campaigner whose reputation as a ...

Tue, 23 Apr 2024

Texas's 15th Congressional District is held by Rep. Monica De La Cruz, a Republican. Her Democratic ...

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

The 2024 presidential race will come down to two key regions: the industrial Midwest and the Sun Bel...

Fri, 19 Apr 2024

Foreign aid legislation is advancing to a vote in the House thanks to Democratic support, as a third...

Thu, 18 Apr 2024

The Biden campaign and allied groups are aggressively advertising to win over persuadable voters. Tr...

Wed, 17 Apr 2024

Speaker Mike Johnson has split apart the foreign military aid package sent over by the Senate into s...

Tue, 16 Apr 2024

More than 300 defendants have been charged with obstructing or attempting to obstruct an official co...

Mon, 15 Apr 2024

Trump faces 34 felony counts alleging that he falsified New York business records in order to concea...

Fri, 12 Apr 2024

The Biden administration unveiled new, targeted student debt forgiveness and new regulations on gun ...

Thu, 11 Apr 2024

Erie, Pa., supported Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 elections, Donald Trump in 2016 and Joe Biden...

Wed, 10 Apr 2024

We go deep on Alabama's second congressional district ahead of a primary runoff there next week. The...

Tue, 09 Apr 2024

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee said Monday that abortion access was a state issue a...

Mon, 08 Apr 2024

Congress is headed back to Washington. With funding deadlines in the review mirror, they are turning...

Fri, 05 Apr 2024

In a call Thursday to Israel's prime minister, President Biden told Benjamin Netanyahu the U.S. need...

Thu, 04 Apr 2024

In a pivotal election year, U.S. democracy continues to face a persistent challenge among the countr...

Wed, 03 Apr 2024

As Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza enters its sixth month, Democratic members of Congress who are pa...

Tue, 02 Apr 2024

In a pair of decisions Monday, Florida's supreme court ruled the state's six-week abortion ban could...

Mon, 01 Apr 2024

The Justice Department launched a team in December 2023 to look into allegations of war crimes commi...

Fri, 29 Mar 2024

A bipartisan group of legal experts is sounding an alarm about presidential power this election seas...

Thu, 28 Mar 2024

The Supreme Court heard a case this week about mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortions. An...

Wed, 27 Mar 2024

As the United States tries to seek a resolution to Israel's war in Gaza, we look at the complicated ...

Tue, 26 Mar 2024

Former President Trump got a brief reprieve in his New York civil case, as the amount he owes to sec...

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

The presidential campaign is heating up, and candidates are hitting the road to convince people to v...

Fri, 22 Mar 2024

The House of Representatives reached a deal on government funding, but Speaker Mike Johnson again ha...

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

Texas has a controversial immigration law that, if implemented, would empower local law enforcement ...

Wed, 20 Mar 2024

New data shows that voting in America has gotten easier over the past two decades. More voters have ...

Tue, 19 Mar 2024

Is reform coming to Arizona's presidential preference election, which blocks independent voters from...

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

Vice President Harris was known as a middling campaigner during the 2020 presidential primary, but s...

Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Fani Willis, Fulton County District Attorney, can continue to lead the prosecution against former Pr...

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

Congress is giving the popular Chinese social media app TikTok an ultimatum—find an American buyer...

Wed, 13 Mar 2024

There is a movement to get third-party and independent presidential candidates on the ballot this ye...

Tue, 12 Mar 2024

Republicans and Democrats expressed dissatisfaction with special counsel Robert Hur's report about P...

Mon, 11 Mar 2024

The Republican National Committee voted in a new chair and co-chair on Friday — including a member...

Fri, 08 Mar 2024

President Biden and former President Donald Trump are almost certain to be in a rematch in the gener...

Fri, 08 Mar 2024

President Biden delivered a fiery State Of The Union Thursday night addressing immigration, aid for ...

Wed, 06 Mar 2024

After a tough night with only one win on Super Tuesday, Nikki Haley announced Wednesday that she is ...

Wed, 06 Mar 2024

There were no surprises this Super Tuesday as both President Joe Biden and former president Donald T...

Mon, 04 Mar 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Colorado could not disqualify former President Donald Trump from i...

Fri, 01 Mar 2024

In this week's roundup, we look at the dueling visits to the U.S.-Mexico border taken by President B...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

The Supreme Court announced it will hear a case related to special counsel Jack Smith's prosecution ...

Wed, 28 Feb 2024

President Biden won the Michigan Democratic presidential primary Tuesday by a wide margin, despite a...

Tue, 27 Feb 2024

The United States Supreme Court is weighing in on a case legal experts say is the biggest test of fr...

Mon, 26 Feb 2024

The president's most significant opposition in Michigan's Tuesday primary is not another candidate —...

Sun, 25 Feb 2024

Former President Donald Trump won the South Carolina Republican primary race in former governor Nikk...

Fri, 23 Feb 2024

The South Carolina Republican primary is tomorrow. Former President Donald Trump is favored to win, ...

Thu, 22 Feb 2024

The Israel-Hamas war has been raging for more than four months. The U.S. blocked another U.N. cease-...

Wed, 21 Feb 2024

All eyes are on the presidential primaries, but there are a few key Senate races to watch this year ...

Tue, 20 Feb 2024

Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley delivered a rousing speech to supporters in South Carolin...

Mon, 19 Feb 2024

There isn't a Republican presidential nominee yet, but for most Republicans, it's former president D...

Fri, 16 Feb 2024

This week, former President Donald Trump got a court date for his first criminal trial, lawmakers ta...

Thu, 15 Feb 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris is in Germany this week for the Munich Security Conference. Harris is t...

Wed, 14 Feb 2024

Former congressman Tom Suozzi won his House seat back in a special election Tuesday. The office was ...

Tue, 13 Feb 2024

The South Carolina Republican primary is less than two weeks away, and both candidates are talking f...

Mon, 12 Feb 2024

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is at odds with his colleagues about what the party's priorit...

Fri, 09 Feb 2024

President Biden is fed up. He shared choice words with reporters after being criticized for his age ...

Fri, 09 Feb 2024

The Justice Department will not charge President Biden for willfully holding onto and disclosing cla...

Thu, 08 Feb 2024

The Supreme Court heard arguments today about whether or not Colorado can keep former President Dona...

Wed, 07 Feb 2024

Senators released a new bipartisan immigration deal on Sunday. The agreement fell apart within days ...

Tue, 06 Feb 2024

Three judge panel rules former President Donald Trump does not enjoy broad immunity from federal pro...

Mon, 05 Feb 2024

President Joe Biden ran away with the democratic presidential nomination in South Carolina. Biden wo...

Fri, 02 Feb 2024

This NFL season, popstar Taylor Swift has been a mainstay at the Kansas City Chiefs games cheering o...

Thu, 01 Feb 2024

Republican voters in Iowa have two presidential nominating contests next week, a primary on Tuesday ...

Wed, 31 Jan 2024

House Republicans in disagreement with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas's handling of ...

Tue, 30 Jan 2024

Campaign spending increases each election cycle; this year, almost $16 billion will be spent on race...

Mon, 29 Jan 2024

The border is a hot topic for politicians on both sides of the aisle — and now, on the campaign tr...

Fri, 26 Jan 2024

Former President Donald Trump's co-defendant in the election interference criminal case in Georgia i...

Thu, 25 Jan 2024

There isn't a Republican presidential nominee yet, but for most Republicans, it's former president D...

Wed, 24 Jan 2024

For decades, President Biden has shied away from talking about reproductive rights, but in this elec...

Wed, 24 Jan 2024

New Hampshire voters cast their ballots in the state's Republican primary in favor of former preside...

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

With only days before the New Hampshire primary, Florida governor Ron DeSantis suspended his campaig...

Fri, 19 Jan 2024

Polls have shown that younger voters are not that enthusiastic about reelecting President Biden. But...

Thu, 18 Jan 2024

The U.S. government has been launching missiles at Houthi rebels who have attacked ships in the Red ...

Wed, 17 Jan 2024

Disinformation. Threats to election workers. A potential presidential rematch. We look at why this e...

Tue, 16 Jan 2024

The Iowa caucuses are over. Next up: the New Hampshire primary. The three remaining major Republican...

Tue, 16 Jan 2024

Former president Donald Trump won the Iowa Republican caucuses with over 50 percent of the votes Mon...

Fri, 12 Jan 2024

Republicans across Iowa will gather Monday night at 7:00 pm CT to caucus for a presidential candidat...

Thu, 11 Jan 2024

The stream of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border hit record numbers at the end of 2023. The st...

Wed, 10 Jan 2024

Former President Trump's attorneys appeared at the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to argue Trump should...

Tue, 09 Jan 2024

Iowa Republicans caucus in less than a week. Republican presidential candidates are making their fin...

Mon, 08 Jan 2024

With only 11 days to go until a possible government shutdown, congressional leaders have agreed to a...

Fri, 05 Jan 2024

President Biden used his first campaign event of 2024 to call out his likely opponent, former Presid...

Thu, 04 Jan 2024

The former president faces challenges convincing voters he deserves a second term. We explore what t...

Wed, 03 Jan 2024

Former president Donald Trump is waiting to learn if his name will be on presidential primary ballot...

Tue, 02 Jan 2024

Lawmakers made headlines in 2023 for seemingly everything but making laws. We look back at their wor...

Mon, 01 Jan 2024

From NPR's daily news podcast, Consider This: Nearly two years into Roe v. Wade being overturned, pr...

Fri, 29 Dec 2023

The new year is nigh. We look back at all the things we couldn't stop thinking about in 2023 — pol...

Thu, 28 Dec 2023

The incumbent president faces challenges convincing voters he deserves a second term. We explore wha...

Wed, 27 Dec 2023

President Biden has been touting his economic plan as the economy recovers after the pandemic. We lo...

Tue, 26 Dec 2023

This year saw the continuation of the Russia-Ukraine war and the start of the latest Israel-Hamas wa...

Mon, 25 Dec 2023

Most congressional general elections are not competitive. It's why some people feel like voting won'...

Fri, 22 Dec 2023

Generation X, the generation between the Boomers and Millennials, isn't a voting bloc you hear much ...

Thu, 21 Dec 2023

The former president continues to recite his greatest hits on the campaign trail, along with adding ...

Wed, 20 Dec 2023

Citing the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled "Presiden...

Tue, 19 Dec 2023

Between primaries, caucuses & different processes across the 50 states and other territories, there'...

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

When it comes to the future of America's youth, Republican presidential candidates are less focused ...

Sun, 17 Dec 2023

Susan Davis and Ron Elving quiz an NPR Politics Podcast listener on recent political news and trivia...

Fri, 15 Dec 2023

Lawmakers presided over one of the most fruitless sessions in legislative history this year — and ...

Thu, 14 Dec 2023

The Israel-Hamas war has sparked demonstrations on college campuses, igniting the age old debate abo...

Thu, 14 Dec 2023

The vote is intended, in part, to give lawmakers greater legal authority to enforce subpoenas. House...

Tue, 12 Dec 2023

The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade last year has made it virtually impossible to ...

Mon, 11 Dec 2023

The first-in-the-nation primary is set for Jan. 23, but President Biden is staying out of the Democr...

Fri, 08 Dec 2023

Lawmakers are scrambling to get things done before the end of the year, but is there an appetite to ...

Thu, 07 Dec 2023

The Department of Justice this week announced war crimes charges against four Russian soldiers for a...

Thu, 07 Dec 2023

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, former U.N. ambassador Nik...

Tue, 05 Dec 2023

The former president and his allies have made clear they don't want obstacles that stymied them in t...

Mon, 04 Dec 2023

The former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador threads the needle while running for presiden...

Fri, 01 Dec 2023

Rep. George Santos became the sixth person ever expelled from the House of Representatives Friday. A...

Thu, 30 Nov 2023

For a while, President Biden was treating former President Trump a little like Lord Voldemort: He Wh...

Wed, 29 Nov 2023

From Israel, to Ukraine, to China, global crises and conflicts are dominating headlines. And there a...

Tue, 28 Nov 2023

The Iowa caucuses are less than two months away, and former President Trump remains the clear frontr...

Mon, 27 Nov 2023

Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that private individuals and groups, like the ACLU or NAACP...

Fri, 24 Nov 2023

Roe. Brown. Obergefell. Dobbs. These Supreme Court decisions are the ones that make headlines, and e...

Thu, 23 Nov 2023

In this edition of the podcast, originally only available to NPR Politics Podcast+ supporters, Tamar...

Wed, 22 Nov 2023

After six weeks of war, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a four-day pause in hostilities. As part of ...

Tue, 21 Nov 2023

The federal election interference case against former President Trump is months away from going to t...

Mon, 20 Nov 2023

For decades, abortion has been a motivating force for the Republican base. But in a post-Roe, world,...

Fri, 17 Nov 2023

It was a busy week in Washington. President Biden's support from Arab-American and Muslim American v...

Thu, 16 Nov 2023

The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll shows a growing number of Americans think Israel's military ...

Wed, 15 Nov 2023

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., has long-held ties to Christian activists and leaders — ...

Tue, 14 Nov 2023

It's a state with lots of older and younger voters, and whose population is increasingly diversifyin...

Mon, 13 Nov 2023

Between lawsuits, threats & difficulty doing research, both elections officials and researchers stud...

Sat, 11 Nov 2023

Today we're sharing an episode of a new NPR podcast called Trump's Trials, hosted by Scott Detrow wi...

Fri, 10 Nov 2023

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced he wouldn't seek another term, fueling speculation he's gearing...

Thu, 09 Nov 2023

The former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor is attracting new attention with voters. But,...

Thu, 09 Nov 2023

Five candidates — former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, former...

Tue, 07 Nov 2023

The former president took the stand Monday in a New York courtroom and was at times combative and de...

Mon, 06 Nov 2023

Voters will decide whether to codify reproductive rights in the state's constitution this Election D...

Fri, 03 Nov 2023

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) has a lot on his agenda — aid to Israel and Ukraine, a l...

Thu, 02 Nov 2023

Senate colleagues are frustrated with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who continues to block appoint...

Wed, 01 Nov 2023

President Biden has offered strong support for Israel in its war against Hamas, even traveling to th...

Tue, 31 Oct 2023

A suit filed in the state alleges the former president is ineligible to seek public office based on ...

Mon, 30 Oct 2023

The idea of term limiting congressional representatives tends to poll well, but — in practice — ...

Fri, 27 Oct 2023

Drawing congressional and statehouse districts in a way that solidifies a party's political power is...

Thu, 26 Oct 2023

Trump-aligned lawyers Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis have agreed to plea deals in a...

Wed, 25 Oct 2023

The Louisiana Republican is known as an easy friend among his colleagues, a devout Christian and fer...

Tue, 24 Oct 2023

"I have many wonderful friends wanting to be Speaker of the House, and some are truly great Warriors...

Mon, 23 Oct 2023

The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) helps member states keep their voter rolls up-...

Fri, 20 Oct 2023

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) failed to win a majority of votes in the House on his third attempt to beco...

Thu, 19 Oct 2023

After wavering and backing a temporary leader, Rep. Jim Jordan says he will push ahead with another ...

Wed, 18 Oct 2023

The president delivered the remarks during his trip to Israel. An additional stop in Jordan to meet ...

Wed, 18 Oct 2023

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio was opposed by twenty of his fellow Republicans in a vote before the full Ho...

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

The White House describes the $369 billion of spending inside the Inflation Reduction Act as the big...

Sat, 14 Oct 2023

With a massive humanitarian crisis in Israel and Gaza, dwindling funds for Ukraine and a rapidly app...

Thu, 12 Oct 2023

Donald Trump has visited Iowa and New Hampshire more frequently in recent months, though skipping th...

Wed, 11 Oct 2023

The conservative Louisiana Republican has now been backed by his primary rival in the race for Speak...

Tue, 10 Oct 2023

Republicans must pick a Speaker of the House before Congress can pass any legislation — and are fa...

Mon, 09 Oct 2023

This summer, the Supreme Court overturned the legality of race-based affirmative action at higher ed...

Fri, 06 Oct 2023

And U.S. officials are likely to show up empty-handed to a international meeting coordinating aid to...

Thu, 05 Oct 2023

According to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, 49% of Americans believe he has done something...

Wed, 04 Oct 2023

Concern from some Republicans over abortion — and resurgent skepticism of foreign aid — could se...

Wed, 04 Oct 2023

Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida was joined by seven other Republicans and the Democratic party in a first...

Mon, 02 Oct 2023

Speaker McCarthy, unable to marshal his conference, relied on Democrats to fund the federal governme...

Fri, 29 Sep 2023

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, is dead at 90. The government is about to shutdown ov...

Thu, 28 Sep 2023

The hearing focused on the business practices of his son's efforts and insinuations that, while serv...

Thu, 28 Sep 2023

Seven Republican primary candidates not named Donald Trump debated Wednesday night in the Reagan Lib...

Tue, 26 Sep 2023

In what is likely a first, the sitting president of the United States joined a picket line. Biden ma...

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, is facing federal bribery charges. Federal agents found...

Fri, 22 Sep 2023

Congress has left town as House Republicans infighting appears doomed to shutdown the government nex...

Thu, 21 Sep 2023

Closed primaries — where only members of that political party can vote — are effectively the fin...

Wed, 20 Sep 2023

The former president is evidently trying to shore up support with working class voters in Michigan. ...

Tue, 19 Sep 2023

The governor of North Dakota is running to be the Republican nominee for president after a long care...

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

The country's wartime president heads to the United Nations and to Capitol Hill this week to make th...

Fri, 15 Sep 2023

Congressional redistricting in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and New York may give Democr...

Thu, 14 Sep 2023

The president's son faces three felony charges related to a weapon he purchased in 2018. The charges...

Wed, 13 Sep 2023

Public opinion toward organized labor is at recent highs. As a potential strike by the United Auto W...

Tue, 12 Sep 2023

The speaker of the House cited "allegations of abuse of power, obstruction, and corruption" in his r...

Mon, 11 Sep 2023

The chair of North Carolina's Democratic party is just 25. Her Republican counterpart in Alabama is ...

Fri, 08 Sep 2023

The former governor of New Jersey is running to be the Republican nominee for president for a second...

Thu, 07 Sep 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was once seen as the biggest threat to former President Donald Trump. But ...

Wed, 06 Sep 2023

Ken Paxton, a Republican, is facing a bipartisan impeachment trial in the Texas Senate related to al...

Tue, 05 Sep 2023

Most new recruits to active duty military service were either very young or not yet born when the at...

Mon, 04 Sep 2023

We're off for Labor Day, but we wanted to give you something a little fun to listen to. It's our Pol...

Fri, 01 Sep 2023

Donald Trump has pled not guilty to state charges in Georgia, as have many of his alleged co-conspir...

Thu, 31 Aug 2023

Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, again froze suddenly during a press conference. The 81 ...

Wed, 30 Aug 2023

The government announced the first ten drugs that are the subject of price negotiations between the ...

Tue, 29 Aug 2023

NPR obtained secret government inspection reports, which described "negligent," "barbaric" and "filt...

Mon, 28 Aug 2023

In New York City, more than 90,000 migrants or people seeking asylum have sought refuge since spring...

Fri, 25 Aug 2023

Wisconsin's diverse geography and intense state politics have kept it a closely-fought presidential ...

Fri, 25 Aug 2023

Former President Donald Trump was processed through a county jail in Georgia on 13 charges that he w...

Thu, 24 Aug 2023

All the candidates except former New Jersey governor Chris Christie and former Arkansas governor Asa...

Tue, 22 Aug 2023

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis,...

Mon, 21 Aug 2023

The president's visit to the state is a fresh reminder of the increasing frequency and severity of e...

Fri, 18 Aug 2023

President Biden welcomed the men in an effort to foster unity as the United States works to counter ...

Thu, 17 Aug 2023

The New York Democrats discussed the landmark climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, a year after...

Wed, 16 Aug 2023

Inflation is way down, the U.S. is faring better than other major economies, and people broadly say ...

Tue, 15 Aug 2023

The indictment alleges a sweeping scheme to overturn the state's election results. Unlike the federa...

Mon, 14 Aug 2023

The Iowa State Fair regularly draws more than a million people to Des Moines to revel in fried delig...

Fri, 11 Aug 2023

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that prosecutor David Weiss will be appointed special cou...

Thu, 10 Aug 2023

Turnout among voters under 30 has been high in recent elections, but there are still major impedimen...

Wed, 09 Aug 2023

Ohio voters have decisively rejected a proposal that, if passed, would have made it much harder for ...

Tue, 08 Aug 2023

President Biden is the oldest U.S. president ever at 80. Donald Trump is 77. Congress is as old as i...

Mon, 07 Aug 2023

Some state Republican parties are struggling. In Colorado, Michigan and Minnesota, the parties' orga...

Fri, 04 Aug 2023

Trump's latest charges may further fracture House Republicans — with some in the party motivated t...

Thu, 03 Aug 2023

Former President Donald Trump, appearing in federal court in Washington, D.C., said he was not guilt...

Wed, 02 Aug 2023

Donald Trump continues to raise money and consolidate support on the back of his mounting criminal i...

Wed, 02 Aug 2023

Former President Trump has been indicted for his role in attempting to overturn the results of the 2...

Mon, 31 Jul 2023

Will Hurd is a 45 year-old former CIA agent who served six years representing western Texas in the H...

Fri, 28 Jul 2023

Donald Trump and two aides face new obstruction counts based on allegations that they instructed an ...

Thu, 27 Jul 2023

The judge in the Hunter Biden case said Wednesday she is not ready to accept the plea deal struck be...

Wed, 26 Jul 2023

New College of Florida is a public college on the state's west coast with fewer than a thousand stud...

Tue, 25 Jul 2023

The U.S. Defense Department said troops spared civilians during a celebrated 2019 raid against the l...

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

The group No Labels has raised tens of millions of dollars as it mulls running a third party "unity"...

Fri, 21 Jul 2023

Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s embrace of conspiracy theories and famous l...

Thu, 20 Jul 2023

Despite concerns that the end of pandemic-era restrictions would lead to a big increase in the numbe...

Wed, 19 Jul 2023

Michigan's attorney general has announced charges against 16 people for serving as so-called fake el...

Tue, 18 Jul 2023

In a post on his social media site, he indicated that he has received word from the Department of Ju...

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

And President Biden raised a healthy $72 million dollars. Republican candidates are racing to meet t...

Fri, 14 Jul 2023

The federal government's deficit nearly tripled in the first nine months of the fiscal year, a surge...

Thu, 13 Jul 2023

The administration's policy goals regarding Swedish accession to NATO and more military aid for Ukra...

Wed, 12 Jul 2023

The incumbent president may not appear on New Hampshire's Democratic primary ballots this winter. Af...

Tue, 11 Jul 2023

Republicans set Jan. 15, 2024, as the date for their Iowa caucuses, but candidates have already been...

Mon, 10 Jul 2023

Companies are making investment decisions based on environmental, social and corporate governance fa...

Fri, 07 Jul 2023

The government's ability to fight disinformation online has suffered a legal setback that experts sa...

Thu, 06 Jul 2023

There are a number of Republican investigations looking into President Biden and his son, Hunter, on...

Wed, 05 Jul 2023

In Atlanta, dozens of activists who oppose a new police and fire training facility are being accused...

Tue, 04 Jul 2023

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Act is a $1.2 trillion law meant to spur a massive infrastructure rene...

Mon, 03 Jul 2023

The administration sees outrage over Supreme Court rulings as a major force in animating their base ...

Fri, 30 Jun 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from...

Thu, 29 Jun 2023

The ruling included two cases. The case concerning the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill w...

Wed, 28 Jun 2023

After a Russian mercenary leader's forces marched toward Moscow Saturday over frustrations with Puti...

Tue, 27 Jun 2023

The court ruled that state constitutions can protect voting rights in federal elections and state co...

Mon, 26 Jun 2023

It has been a year since the Supreme Court sent the power to legislate abortion access back to the s...

Fri, 23 Jun 2023

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is head of the world's largest democracy — but concerns over ...

Thu, 22 Jun 2023

It used to be a swing state — but swelling numbers of conservative retirees and durable strength a...

Wed, 21 Jun 2023

American voters, including the crucial swing demographic of women in small cities and suburbs, conti...

Tue, 20 Jun 2023

Hunter Biden, the president's son, has been charged with federal offenses related to his taxes and b...

Mon, 19 Jun 2023

Made in America. It may be a catchy political slogan, but it's a lot more complicated than it sounds...

Fri, 16 Jun 2023

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows that after Donald Trump's historic indictment, 83 percent o...

Thu, 15 Jun 2023

It is all in the numbers: the economy is doing really well. Workers are raises are outpacing inflati...

Wed, 14 Jun 2023

The big issues in the Republican presidential primary swirl around the fate of one man: Donald Trump...

Tue, 13 Jun 2023

The former president was greeted warmly by hundreds of supporters as he arrived at the courthouse to...

Mon, 12 Jun 2023

Crowds in Georgia and North Carolina greeted the former president with tremendous enthusiasm, undete...

Sat, 10 Jun 2023

Prosecutors say that the former president kept classified documents that he was no longer allowed to...

Thu, 08 Jun 2023

By a vote of 5-4, a coalition of liberal and conservative justices essentially upheld the court's 19...

Wed, 07 Jun 2023

Former vice president Mike Pence and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie were both early, key ...

Tue, 06 Jun 2023

Schools remain a fixation of conservative political messaging. A new NPR-Ipsos poll asked teachers, ...

Mon, 05 Jun 2023

Texas' top law enforcement official, Attorney General Ken Paxton, has been removed — at least temp...

Sun, 04 Jun 2023

A rare bipartisan success story, the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, quietly he...

Fri, 02 Jun 2023

President Biden is expected to sign the debt ceiling agreement into law as soon as Saturday, after b...

Thu, 01 Jun 2023

The early days of the campaign will be easier for Biden this time around: he's got all the advantage...

Wed, 31 May 2023

Droughts, worsening fire seasons, temperature swings and monsoons all impact farmers' businesses, fo...

Tue, 30 May 2023

Democrats took a big gamble: they chose not to raise or eliminate the debt ceiling when they had ful...

Mon, 29 May 2023

Join us on an audio tour of the U.S. Capitol complex, through Senate office buildings, press work st...

Fri, 26 May 2023

The fiscal parameters of a deal to avert self-inflicted financial catastrophe have been largely hamm...

Thu, 25 May 2023

The Florida governor made his campaign official on Wednesday night, in a Twitter Spaces event with E...

Wed, 24 May 2023

The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National Poll shows more than six in 10 Americans are concerned a...

Tue, 23 May 2023

Tim Scott, the junior senator from South Carolina, kicked off his presidential campaign in North Cha...

Mon, 22 May 2023

After cutting short his trip to Asia, President Biden returned to Washington to meet with Speaker of...

Fri, 19 May 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy is a 37 year-old investor and pharmaceutical entrepreneur who is seeking the Republi...

Thu, 18 May 2023

As world leaders convene in Japan for the G7 summit, contemporary concerns including climate change ...

Wed, 17 May 2023

OpenAI head Sam Altman appeared before a Senate panel this week to talk about his ChatGPT product an...

Tue, 16 May 2023

Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed a bill banning abortion in North Carolina after 12 weeks. But as...

Mon, 15 May 2023

Four senators — two Democrats, two Republicans — are joining forces on a bill to regulate how so...

Fri, 12 May 2023

Lawmakers have yet to reach a deal to avert U.S. default, which could come as soon as next month. In...

Thu, 11 May 2023

Social Security provides retirement money to U.S. workers who have paid into the system via taxes. T...

Wed, 10 May 2023

This episode includes discussion of sexual violence.Jurors found former President Donald Trump liabl...

Tue, 09 May 2023

Congress has long directed the government to spend more money than it collects in taxes. That means ...

Mon, 08 May 2023

As a major pandemic-related immigration policy is scheduled to end, the Biden administration is warn...

Fri, 05 May 2023

A jury in Washington, D.C., has convicted former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio and three others...

Thu, 04 May 2023

Statehouses have long passed legislation in order to curtail or overrule local governments, but ther...

Wed, 03 May 2023

The public health policy was implemented by the Trump administration as a way to limit migration to ...

Tue, 02 May 2023

This episode discusses gun violence and contains mentions of suicide and the sound of gun shots. If ...

Mon, 01 May 2023

Roughly half the country believes that neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump should seek the presidency...

Fri, 28 Apr 2023

Both men are strikingly unpopular — two-thirds of Americans don't want Trump to run for president ...

Thu, 27 Apr 2023

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was able to narrowly pass a bill to temporarily raise the debt limit. B...

Wed, 26 Apr 2023

A core tenet of President Biden's economic agenda has been protecting American industry. He argues a...

Tue, 25 Apr 2023

President Biden announced his reelection bid in a video released early Tuesday morning. We break dow...

Mon, 24 Apr 2023

Republican presidential hopefuls flocked to Iowa this weekend for a chance to make their pitch to a ...

Fri, 21 Apr 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is mulling over a 2024 run for the White House — and he currently stands...

Thu, 20 Apr 2023

The Supreme Court has three options: send the fight over mifepristone — a drug used for over half ...

Wed, 19 Apr 2023

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he would agree to raise federal government's borrowing limit in ex...

Wed, 19 Apr 2023

It remains to be seen whether Fox News will have to retract any of the baseless claims it broadcast ...

Mon, 17 Apr 2023

The Supreme Court will decide how to move forward after temporarily halting a lower court's order wh...

Fri, 14 Apr 2023

California Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein's months-long recuperation from shingles has hamstrung th...

Thu, 13 Apr 2023

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, J...

Wed, 12 Apr 2023

Scott, who serves as a senator from South Carolina, announced a presidential exploratory committee —...

Tue, 11 Apr 2023

As many Republican-led states pass legislation restricting or banning gender-affirming care for mino...

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

Two federal judges issued contradictory opinions related to a drug used in nearly all U.S. medicatio...

Fri, 07 Apr 2023

Tennessee House Republicans voted to expel Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after they led a pr...

Thu, 06 Apr 2023

Want to put yourself or your cause on the ballot? Generally, you need to gather signatures first in ...

Wed, 05 Apr 2023

Liberal Janet Protasiewicz won her election to the Wisconsin State Supreme Court by more than 11 per...

Tue, 04 Apr 2023

Prosecutors in New York allege Donald Trump falsified business records to conceal hush money payment...

Mon, 03 Apr 2023

A race for one seat on the Wisconsin state Supreme Court has broken national spending records. The w...

Fri, 31 Mar 2023

How will American politics change now that a former president, Donald Trump, is facing criminal pros...

Fri, 31 Mar 2023

The indictment appears to be connected to hush money payments made to adult film actor Stormy Daniel...

Thu, 30 Mar 2023

Now, states are beginning to take up the mantle in order to revive the initiatve supported by super-...

Wed, 29 Mar 2023

In 2013, researchers published a landmark study on why Americans of all incomes and demographics die...

Tue, 28 Mar 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing a criminal corruption charges, has moved to...

Mon, 27 Mar 2023

Six in ten Americans say in a new NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll that they don't want Trump to be pres...

Fri, 24 Mar 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely Republican presidential primary candidate, once strugged to win ...

Thu, 23 Mar 2023

Top monetary officials including Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Ye...

Wed, 22 Mar 2023

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew is set to address the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thu...

Tue, 21 Mar 2023

The former president's announced on social media that he'd soon be arrested, apparently referring to...

Mon, 20 Mar 2023

It's been twenty years since the U.S. launched a war in Iraq — a conflict justified by faulty inte...

Fri, 17 Mar 2023

A bill ending Iraq war authorizations has cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate and is expected ...

Thu, 16 Mar 2023

Was the FDA wrong to approve a drug that's used in nearly all medication abortions in the U.S. — a...

Wed, 15 Mar 2023

The U.S. and the United Kingdom will provide nuclear-powered submarine technology to Australia as pa...

Tue, 14 Mar 2023

Former President Donald Trump has been invited to testify before a New York City grand jury — a mo...

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The Biden administration has announced that customers of Silicon Valley Bank will have full access t...

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President Biden wants to raise income taxes on households earning more than $400,000 a year to shore...

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In principle, Democratic lawmakers support the local Washington, D.C., government's power to make la...

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A billion-dollar defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against the broadcaster is ti...

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Black farmers have long struggled with discrimination, inequities that persist today despite federal...

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The U.S. attorney general traveled to Ukraine to discuss war crimes investigations with top justice ...

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Democratic lawmakers and Republican activists both met for messaging conferences this week. The Supr...

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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy provided access to the footage to Carlson, who has frequently us...

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A new House panel kicked off a series of hearings focused on what lawmakers describe as the threat p...

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The Supreme Court heard two major cases that could ultimately make platforms like YouTube and Twitte...

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President Biden is gaining in popularity — how much of his decision to run again is driven by Vice...

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Members of the Proud Boys are on trial related to their alleged actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021...

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The U.S. has entered an era of post-shame politics, where politicians are willing to endure embarras...

Mon, 20 Feb 2023

President Biden traveled to Ukraine on Monday on an unannounced trip to mark the anniversary of Russ...

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A focus group of swing voters showed worry about President Biden's age — he'd be 82 at the start o...

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In remarks Friday, President Biden said the three aerial objects shot down by U.S. military were mos...

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A survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution found tha...

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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy will lead fellow Republican lawmakers on a trip to Arizona this ...

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The United States military downed three more unidentified flying objects, though the Biden administr...

Fri, 10 Feb 2023

China has sent surveillance balloons over more than 40 countries across five continents and the Bide...

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The Farm Bill is a sweeping legislative package that funds an array of programs, including the Suppl...

Wed, 08 Feb 2023

President Biden is in Wisconsin Wednesday, touting the same broadly popular priorities he emphasized...

Wed, 08 Feb 2023

President Biden kept a tight focus on broadly popular policies and bipartisan achievements in a Stat...

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelled his trip to China after the U.S. spotted a Chinese surve...

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Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was at the White House on Wednesday for talks as Pres...

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The House Oversight and Judiciary committees, helmed by Repulican representatives James Comer of Ken...

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The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador is going back on her pledge not to ...

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Recent changes to Florida's election laws institute new requirements that, as designed, could cause ...

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The site's parent company announced that Donald Trump would be able to return to the platform with n...

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The move, announced by President Biden in a speech from the Roosevelt Room of the White House, is th...

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Democrats head into the 2024 elections needing to defend far more seats in the Senate than their Rep...

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The White House said FBI agents searched President Biden's Delaware home on Friday, finding more ite...

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Documents were at the heart of Washington news this week. A Supreme Court investigation into who lea...

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The Payroll Protection Program was enacted during the pandemic to provide financial assistance to bu...

Wed, 18 Jan 2023

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress the United States would reach the statutory debt lim...

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In Washington, D.C., members of the Proud Boys are on trial related to their alleged actions surroun...

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The world faces key deadlines for climate action in coming decades. But most of us are more focused ...

Fri, 13 Jan 2023

With a narrow majority in the House, Republicans will need to find ways to work with Democrats — w...

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After President Biden announced a second set of classified documents had been improperly stored at h...

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Both the president and his predecessor are facing investigations from the Department of Justice over...

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President Biden heads to Mexico City this week for two days of meetings with Canadian Prime Minister...

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After 15 rounds of balloting, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was elected Speaker of the House. The s...

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The 118th Congress began its work today, and the first order of business for the House was to select...

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A huge number of voters indicated that the economy was their top concern in the midterm election —...

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Tim Miller spent years working as a Republican political operative for candidates like Jeb Bush and ...

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Politicians have long relied on country music stars to burnish their rural reputations — and count...

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Title 42, implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the pandemic, has bee...

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Her life is about to change: with Democrats expanding their control in the Senate, Vice President Ha...

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A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows that most voters want to see bipartisan compromise in Congr...

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It could be the most rancorous contest for Speaker of the House in the modern Congress — even thou...

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The reform deal is one of many parts of this year's annual defense spending bill, the National Defen...

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The Arizona senator announced she was leaving the Democratic party — but given her broad support o...

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Under a court order, officials in Republican-controlled Cochise County, Ariz., finally certified the...

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As Democrats plan for a presidential campaign season without Iowa at the top of the calendar, we loo...

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The Democratic National Committee is meeting this week in Washington to decide whether Iowa should s...

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All eyes are on Georgia's Senate runoff election as Democrat Raphael Warnock fights for his first fu...

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Railroad unions rejected a Biden-brokered deal to prevent a national strike over concerns that it di...

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GOP candidates there embraced "bipartisan" messaging and capitalized on redrawn maps to flip four Ho...

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In Pennsylvania, Democratic candidates managed to turnout their rural supporters while many rural Re...

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It's a holiday tradition unlike any other — the annual pardoning of Thanksgiving turkeys. But not ...

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Our colleagues at Planet Money had a simple question: how do pollsters do their work ahead of electi...

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When the new Congress takes office in January, Democrats will lose control of the House of Represent...

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Election observers were concerned misinformation would have an outsized impact on the 2022 elections...

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Attorney General Merrick Garland has named Jack Smith, the Justice Department's former public integr...

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Pelosi, 82, is honoring a pledge she made in 2018 to pass the baton after another two terms at the p...

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Former president Donald Trump, 76, has now filed to run for president again in 2024. President Biden...

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The California Republican got his start in national politics as a self-styled "young gun" whose inve...

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Tensions appear lower between the U.S. and China following a meeting between the leaders of the two ...

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Republican nominee Blake Masters lags incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly in Arizona, as we wait for ...

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Michigan's Jocelyn Benson and Minnesota's Steve Simon beat election deniers to oversee voting system...

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Democrats outperformed expectations last night. Despite Biden's unpopularity and big economic headwi...

Wed, 09 Nov 2022

The balance of power will take time to sort out, but here are some firsts you can talk about around ...

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More than 40 million Americans have already cast ballots in the 2022 midterms, but be prepared: resu...

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Trump and Biden signed off on historic amounts of stimulus money that helped the country's economy w...

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Biden gave a speech Wednesday night on the health of democracy — it's one of many things on the mi...

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Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, the first Latina U.S. senator, is in an extremely close race agains...

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Violent crime remains higher than it was pre-pandemic and Republican candidates are blanketing subur...

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Rep. Cindy Axne was elected in a Democratic wave year from Iowa's 3rd congressional district. Now, s...

Fri, 28 Oct 2022

A man broke into the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacked her husband. The speaker was no...

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In Arizona, rampant voter fraud conspiracies have led people — some armed — to observe ballot bo...

Wed, 26 Oct 2022

North Carolina has a number of high-profile races that will help to determine control of Congress —...

Tue, 25 Oct 2022

New Hampshire is a must-win state for Democrats in their campaign to keep control of the Senate. Sen...

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

More than $1.6 billion has been spent or booked on TV ads in a dozen Senate races, with $3 out of ev...

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In a live show on Thursday, October 20th, at the Buckhead Theater in Atlanta, political corresponden...

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Protect jobs or how much you can buy for a dollar? It's up to the Federal Reserve, the nation's cent...

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Joseph Cuffari, the Trump-appointed leader of the Department of Homeland Security's watchdog agency,...

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Prosecutors in Los Angeles say Konnech, a small company that makes software for scheduling election ...

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Addiction deaths remain a major problem in the U.S. as the public health focus has shifted to COVID-...

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The White House has accused Saudi Arabia of helping Russia fund its war in Ukraine by pushing up oil...

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The administration is trying to explain its policies to a core part of the Democratic base: young vo...

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There is a month left before the final vote is cast in the 2022 midterm elections. Can Republicans s...

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The Family Roe is journalist Joshua Prager's sweeping look at the life of Norma McCorvey — better ...

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The high court, which now includes Biden nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, will hear cases that will de...

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Stock markets have had a tough year and inflation has remained stubborn, but the value of the U.S. d...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022

President Biden sees large-scale capital investment by the U.S. government as the way to revive the ...

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Democrats see Wisconsin as their best chance to unseat an incumbent Republican senator. But Sen. Ron...

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In a remarkable reversal, the U.S. Department of Education has quietly changed its guidance around w...

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The scope of Hurricane Ian's damage remains to be seen, but millions were left without power and muc...

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As Brazilians head to the polls to vote for president, they're being deluged by a wave of falsehoods...

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Jury selection has begun in the trail of five members or associates of the far-right group over thei...

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The ninth and final scheduled meeting of the House committee investigating the January 6th, 2021 att...

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European utilities, which used to purchase lots of natural gas from Russia, are buying from the Unit...

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A panel of judges from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the Justice Department to resum...

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President Biden's annual remarks before the United Nations General Assembly were designed to rally p...

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President Biden told 60 Minutes that the pandemic is basically over. Hundreds of Americans are still...

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Abortion access and inflation are the top issues driving the midterms, but they're motivating very d...

Thu, 15 Sep 2022

Cody Keenan talks to NPR's Tamara Keith about writing for Barack Obama, the impact of Donald Trump's...

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Republican J.D. Vance and Democrat Tim Ryan are contesting Ohio's open Senate seat. Social issues in...

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Rates of political violence, armed protest, hate crime and white supremacist activity all became mor...

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Donald Trump's legal team and the Justice Department disagree over who should review the documents, ...

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Veterans' groups, students and attorneys are mobilizing to work at polling sites as health and polit...

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Donald Trump's GOP critics have begun to suggest that Republicans should nominate a fresh face, some...

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Judge Eileen Cannon, who was appointed by former President Trump, has handed the former president a ...

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President Joe Biden delivered a speech warning that American democracy is endangered by Donald Trump...

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Wed, 31 Aug 2022

The Justice Department says that Trump's representatives claimed they turned over all remaining clas...

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Voters of color still overwhelmingly support Democrats, but Republican in-roads at the margins can h...

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Even as Democrats see their support swell, they are still in real danger of losing control of the Ho...

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The Justice Department released a redacted affidavit justifying the FBI search of former president D...

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The federal government will forgive federal student loan debt – up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recip...

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Trump has gobs of money is his political action committees and as long as he's not officially runnin...

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The Biden administration concluded the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan a year ago...

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Pinellas County, on Florida's west coast, is unique: it backed the winning presidential tickets in 2...

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Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have opened the door to abortion restrict...

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The effort has further taxed local election officials, who have fielded worried calls from voters wh...

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The young candidates say they hope to fix broken institutions that they feel have let their generati...

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The committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack held its seventh public hearing Tuesday, focus...

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President Biden has exchanged letters with the WNBA all-star, who is behind bars in Russia. It's the...

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Top Trump-era Justice officials, including acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, testified about th...

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In Nashville last week, Christian conservatives echoed Trump's claims about fraud after his speech a...

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The conservative majority so far appears unmoved by prevailing public opinion on the controversial s...

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And President Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited with victims and their families in Texas on Su...

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Most people know John Legend as an award-winning actor and musician. But he also has a long record o...

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The Senate is negotiating over limited legislation aimed at reducing gun violence, although those ne...

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An opt-in police misconduct database and new conduct standards for federal police: President Biden's...

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President Biden said the U.S. Military would defend Taiwan if China invaded. He also announced a new...

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U.S. government tariffs and Department of Agriculture buying practices helped drive consolidation in...

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The leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court earlier this month that showed the majority-conse...

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In North Carolina, Rep. Ted Budd — boosted by Donald Trump's endorsement — secured a decisive wi...

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A prominent conference of American conservatives — the Conservative Political Action Conference (C...

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Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sat down with NPR's Deirdre Walsh for a conversation about t...

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Senate Democrats failed to pass a bill that would have codified the right to an abortion Wednesday, ...

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After initially being reluctant to talk about the substance of the leaked Supreme Court opinion, GOP...

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The Supreme Court may be on the cusp of overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling which established a...

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It depends how the final opinion is written. And, President Biden said that voters need to elect mor...

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The primary race illustrated the state's dramatic conservative turn in recent years. If Vance bests ...

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According to a draft opinion obtained by POLITICO, there is a five-justice conservative majority rea...

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The White House pitch to provide consistent support for Ukraine through the end of September at a co...

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In a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, 47% of registered voters surveyed said they are more likely t...

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The Supreme Court is considering a case that could significantly weaken the right to abortion — or...

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In a conversation with NPR, Reps. Ro Khanna of California and Jamie Raskin of Maryland said that whi...

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Thirty-eight percent of Americans under 30 want to see student debt cancelled entirely. Despite a ca...

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Thu, 21 Apr 2022

Prominent candidates in two Republican Senate primaries, Missouri's Eric Greitens and Georgia's Hers...

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The Biden administration has repeatedly tried to end the policy, which requires migrants making an a...

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A judge said the rule exceeded the Centers for Disease Control's power, raising questions about how ...

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Sarah Palin, whose 2008 turn as John McCain's running mate presaged the Republican Party's evolution...

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In Borodyanka, northwest of Kyiv, Natasha Romanenko lived in her root cellar for a month to avoid Ru...

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There are 35 Senate elections happening this November and although Republicans are defending 21 incu...

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The White House continues to insist the country has the tools to return to life-as-usual, even as CO...

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Far-right activists and a militia figure are a major force in the state's Republican politics, where...

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Ivanka Trump, daughter and adviser to the former president, voluntarily testified before House inves...

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As the Senate prepares to leave town for a two-week break, a bipartisan deal for $10 billion in new ...

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Unemployment in the United States is near record lows, wages are growing quickly, and spending in th...

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President Joe Biden again referred to Russian leader Vladimir Putin as a war criminal after mass gra...

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The Federal Communications Commission has few regulations over what candidates can say in their adve...

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Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a former White House staffer, was interviewed by the committee...

Wed, 30 Mar 2022

In Florida, a law limiting discussion of sexual orientation will take effect this summer. In Indiana...

Tue, 29 Mar 2022

Russia pushed a conspiracy theory that the United States is helping Ukraine develop biological weapo...

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COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are down in the United States, but health experts say it's...

Fri, 25 Mar 2022

On a four-day trip through Europe, President Biden is sending the message that the US and allies are...

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Wednesday was the third day of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, but sena...

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Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's Supreme Court pick, faced questions from the Senate Judicia...

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On her first day of Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson told senators t...

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Thu, 17 Mar 2022

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a video address before Congress Wednesday, in whic...

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Even before the pandemic, three in five Americans reported feeling like they are left out, poorly un...

Mon, 14 Mar 2022

The UN says more than 600 civilians been killed, though the true number is likely far higher. Russia...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022

The $1.5 trillion dollar package also contained billions in aid to Ukraine. One thing that was absen...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022

The head of the Justice Department said that he is committed to unraveling the conspiracy behind the...

Wed, 09 Mar 2022

Democrat Jared Polis ended Colorado's statewide mask mandate in the summer of 2021 and didn't reinst...

Tue, 08 Mar 2022

The symbolic move was accompanied by an acknowledgement from the president that gas prices are likel...

Mon, 07 Mar 2022

Ukraine continues to hold out against a Russian invasion, as the U.S. and its European allies debate...

Fri, 04 Mar 2022

Lawmakers said in a court filing this week that the evidence they have gathered through their invest...

Thu, 03 Mar 2022

Biden is asking Congress to make new treatment options free and immediately available to patients wh...

Wed, 02 Mar 2022

Election officials said more than 15,000 mail-in ballots weren't completed properly after the state ...

Wed, 02 Mar 2022

In his speech, the president emphasized policies with broad, bipartisan support, including sanctions...

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

At last week's Conservative Political Action Conference, influential Republicans focused on the noti...

Fri, 25 Feb 2022

Jackson's experiences working as a public defender and on the federal sentencing commission give her...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022

In a speech at the White House Thursday afternoon, President Biden reiterated that the United States...

Wed, 23 Feb 2022

There are 34 Senate races this November and any one of them could decide control of the evenly-divid...

Tue, 22 Feb 2022

White suburban mothers were a key, persuadable voting block in 2020 who helped to secure Biden the p...

Mon, 21 Feb 2022

Putin appears to be establishing a pretext for a Russian invasion of Ukraine, as hopes for a diploma...

Fri, 18 Feb 2022

Even Democratic areas have begun to relax COVID restrictions as the Omicron wave ebbs, but another w...

Thu, 17 Feb 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson, Leondra Kruger, and Michelle Childs are all highly-qualified to serve on the ...

Wed, 16 Feb 2022

The president says that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is still "distinctly possible," but that diplo...

Tue, 15 Feb 2022

Biden won back Pennsylvania and Arizona from Trump in 2020, but the president's sagging approval rat...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022

NPR's Joanna Kakissis has been reporting on the life of Ukrainians as Russia continues to amass troo...

Fri, 11 Feb 2022

Inflation is particularly potent as a political issue because it touches everyone, but President Bid...

Thu, 10 Feb 2022

With President Biden's agenda stalled in Congress, lawmakers are turning their attention to bipartis...

Wed, 09 Feb 2022

Progressives point to a law that gives the education secretary the unilateral power to discharge fed...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022

The White House, which has known about Eric Lander's behavior for weeks following an internal invest...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is in Washington and French President Emmanuel Macron is in Moscow as ...

Fri, 04 Feb 2022

The South Carolina Republican was a steadfast ally for Donald Trump in Congress, but he voted to imp...

Thu, 03 Feb 2022

President Biden said that ISIS leader Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi blew himself up as U.S. special...

Wed, 02 Feb 2022

Republicans are the slight favorites to win an open Senate seat in Ohio, but first their candidate w...

Wed, 02 Feb 2022

Civil rights advocates say an algorithm at the heart the First Step Act, the 2018 bipartisan crimina...

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

Activists say the president has made little substantive progress on overhauling the U.S. immigration...

Fri, 28 Jan 2022

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats will move to confirm Biden's choice as quickly a...

Thu, 27 Jan 2022

A new congressional district in Colorado that is forty percent could be the site of one of the count...

Wed, 26 Jan 2022

Breyer's retirement gives President Biden his first opportunity to name a new justice to the court. ...

Tue, 25 Jan 2022

After Democrats failed to pass federal voting rights legislation, changes to election processes enac...

Mon, 24 Jan 2022

8,500 U.S. troops are on heightened alert for deployment to Europe after Russia stationed more than ...

Fri, 21 Jan 2022

Kamala Harris made history when she became the first woman and the first woman of color to serve as ...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022

The court ruled that the former president cannot block the release of 800 pages of his records to th...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022

In a press conference to mark one year in office, the president touted his administration's progress...

Tue, 18 Jan 2022

Senate Democrats are bringing new voting rights bills to the floor this week. There's just one probl...

Mon, 17 Jan 2022

The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as the president took office: tackling the pan...

Fri, 14 Jan 2022

The Supreme Court has struck down the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test rule for businesses wit...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022

The idea of another American Civil War might seem outlandish. But as the country diversifies, it's g...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022

In an interview with NPR, former President Donald Trump made it clear that he hasn't moved on from h...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022

In a fiery speech in Atlanta Tuesday, President Biden urged the Senate to change filibuster rules in...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022

Democrats have two major pieces of unfinished business on their to-do list. They'll try, again, to r...

Fri, 07 Jan 2022

The justices are considering whether the federal mandates governing private employers and healthcare...

Thu, 06 Jan 2022

In a speech from the Capitol one year after the building was attacked, President Biden warned that t...

Wed, 05 Jan 2022

As the president and his team promise more tests are coming, the omicron variant continues to drive ...

Tue, 04 Jan 2022

Chief Tom Manger says that he is dealing with low morale and high turnover as the force attempts to ...

Mon, 03 Jan 2022

The sentiment is felt most acutely by Republicans, two-thirds of whom wrongly believe that "voter fr...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021

Miles Parks, Juana Summers, and Ayesha Rascoe are joined by Stephen Thompson of NPR Music to discuss...

Thu, 30 Dec 2021

Miles Parks, Kelsey Snell, and Barbara Sprunt are joined by Aisha Harris of NPR's Pop Culture Happy ...

Wed, 29 Dec 2021

Whitney Phillips, assistant professor at Syracuse University, talks to NPR's Miles Parks about consp...

Tue, 28 Dec 2021

In the latest NPR Politics Book Club, Danielle Kurtzleben talks with journalist Sasha Issenberg whos...

Mon, 27 Dec 2021

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said officials knew t...

Fri, 24 Dec 2021

Huma Abedin has worked for Hillary Clinton for a quarter-century. In a new book, Both/And, she discu...

Thu, 23 Dec 2021

The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as the president took office: tackling the pan...

Wed, 22 Dec 2021

The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as the president took office: tackling the pan...

Tue, 21 Dec 2021

The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as he took office: tackling the pandemic, resp...

Mon, 20 Dec 2021

In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, the West Virginia Democrat said he would not support the Build ...

Fri, 17 Dec 2021

President Biden acknowledged Thursday that the centerpiece of his agenda, a nearly-two trillion doll...

Thu, 16 Dec 2021

Following in the footsteps of Lucy McBath, a Georgia Democrat who won a seat in the House of Represe...

Wed, 15 Dec 2021

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is feeling hopeful about the midterms: President Biden's approv...

Tue, 14 Dec 2021

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol recommended that Mark Meadow...

Mon, 13 Dec 2021

U.S. officials have accused Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko of being the latest to take ad...

Fri, 10 Dec 2021

The Supreme Court is allowing a lawsuit challenging Texas's 6-week abortion ban to go forward, but k...

Thu, 09 Dec 2021

Joe Biden pledged ambitious criminal justice reforms as a candidate, but has taken few steps during ...

Wed, 08 Dec 2021

In response to China's human rights abuses, the United States will not send any government represent...

Tue, 07 Dec 2021

The Supreme Court could allow Mississippi's ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy to take eff...

Mon, 06 Dec 2021

An NPR analysis finds that people living in counties which strongly supported Donald Trump in the 20...

Fri, 03 Dec 2021

Congress passed a short-term funding bill to avoid a government shutdown, but they only punted and t...

Thu, 02 Dec 2021

The Supreme Court heard arguments for a case that challenges the foundation of Roe v. Wade, the deci...

Wed, 01 Dec 2021

Congressional districts are redrawn every ten years by state legislatures. In theory it is so popula...

Tue, 30 Nov 2021

Congress and, in particular, congressional Democrats have a long to-do list before the end of the ye...

Mon, 29 Nov 2021

A new Covid-19 variant called Omicron is spreading throughout the world and public health officials ...

Fri, 26 Nov 2021

In order to resist a congressional investigation into the January 6th insurrection, former President...

Thu, 25 Nov 2021

Cokie Roberts was one of NPR's "Founding Mothers," a pioneering journalist whose career blazed a tra...

Wed, 24 Nov 2021

Though it has grown more popular with time, the Affordable Care Act was widely disliked by the publi...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021

More than 100,000 people died from a drug overdose in the 12-month period beginning April 2020. Desp...

Mon, 22 Nov 2021

COVID-19 case numbers are once again rising in the United States ahead of the holiday season, but th...

Fri, 19 Nov 2021

The two-trillion dollar package still needs to pass the Senate, where it is expected to undergo exte...

Thu, 18 Nov 2021

The summit comes after a five-year hiatus spanning the Trump administration. Despite the nations' st...

Wed, 17 Nov 2021

Democrats say they will prioritize sustained outreach to communities of color and clear messages abo...

Tue, 16 Nov 2021

President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met for a video summit this week. Both governments lau...

Mon, 15 Nov 2021

Bannon was indicted last week for defying a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6 riot at the...

Fri, 12 Nov 2021

Pew is out with an extensive look at nine different ideological groups latent in America's political...

Thu, 11 Nov 2021

Democrats are racing to finish their extensive investigation into the January 6th insurrection in th...

Wed, 10 Nov 2021

Donald Trump and other top Republicans have continued to lie about the results of the presidential e...

Tue, 09 Nov 2021

Vice President Kamala Harris is in France for several days, helping to mend the U.S. relationship wi...

Mon, 08 Nov 2021

It is a major political victory for President Biden, though it remains to be seen whether it will bu...

Fri, 05 Nov 2021

It is not clear whether Democrats in the House of Representatives will vote today on the two major l...

Thu, 04 Nov 2021

Brad Raffensperger is a conservative Republican who serves as Georgia's elected Secretary of State —...

Wed, 03 Nov 2021

Youngkin defeated former governor Terry McAuliffe, and outperformed former president Donald Trump's ...

Tue, 02 Nov 2021

A near-ban on abortion in Texas was designed to be hard to challenge in court, but in a hearing on M...

Mon, 01 Nov 2021

President Biden continues his travel this week in Scotland, where he is attending the United Nations...

Fri, 29 Oct 2021

President Biden touted a new framework for the infrastructure package Democrats have been trying to ...

Thu, 28 Oct 2021

The Supreme Court has already ruled that an individual has the right to bear arms in their own home,...

Wed, 27 Oct 2021

The labor market shifted dramatically during the pandemic, and as employers once again begin to hire...

Tue, 26 Oct 2021

TikTok and Snapchat appeared for the first time before Congress alongside YouTube to answer question...

Mon, 25 Oct 2021

Thousands of leaked documents from Facebook were viewed by more news organizations over the weekend ...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021

The off-year election is the first test of how people are feeling ahead of a consequential midterm s...

Thu, 21 Oct 2021

The White House continues to negotiate with Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinem...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021

Another high-profile voting rights push has failed because it did not attract enough Republican supp...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021

School boards are the latest frontier in the culture wars, as incensed community members and right-w...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021

The Biden administration announced that the U.S. will admit vaccinated foreign travelers beginning N...

Fri, 15 Oct 2021

The two senators who are forcing more negotiations over the Biden administration's multi-trillion do...

Thu, 14 Oct 2021

The Supreme Court heard arguments for and against reinstating the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnae...

Wed, 13 Oct 2021

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg tells NPR that the Biden administration is focused on res...

Tue, 12 Oct 2021

Young voters broke for Joe Biden in 2020, but are shirking party affiliations in greater numbers tha...

Mon, 11 Oct 2021

The TV show Impeachment: American Crime Story dramatizes Bill Clinton's impeachment through the stor...

Fri, 08 Oct 2021

Congress reached a deal to raise the debt ceiling enough to cover the government's spending for a fe...

Thu, 07 Oct 2021

Tens of thousands of Afghans have been brought to the United States but most have not yet been reset...

Wed, 06 Oct 2021

Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham was part of the Trump administration from the b...

Tue, 05 Oct 2021

Former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen told senators that the company knows its products har...

Mon, 04 Oct 2021

Biden's top trade official, Katherine Tai, indicated in a Monday speech that tariffs levied against ...

Sat, 02 Oct 2021

In the latest installment of the Politics Podcast book club, NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben interviews Ca...

Fri, 01 Oct 2021

Congress kept the government open but Democrats are still working out how to pass the two major pill...

Thu, 30 Sep 2021

An empowered conservative majority on the Supreme Court will consider a number of social and cultura...

Wed, 29 Sep 2021

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 1 in a case from Mississippi that tests whether all state...

Tue, 28 Sep 2021

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Commander...

Mon, 27 Sep 2021

Democratic Party discord threatens what amounts to nearly all of President Biden's domestic agenda, ...

Fri, 24 Sep 2021

Congressional Democrats are trying to wrap up negotiations on their reconciliation package, fund the...

Thu, 23 Sep 2021

Seven House lawmakers are facing ethics complaints for violating the Stock Act, which polices inside...

Wed, 22 Sep 2021

The Biden administration is expelling hundreds of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, after ...

Tue, 21 Sep 2021

In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Biden emphasized the importan...

Mon, 20 Sep 2021

The GOP has a good shot at taking at least one if not both chambers of Congress in next year's midte...

Fri, 17 Sep 2021

Saturday's "Justice For J6" rally is being held to protest government treatment of people who partic...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021

The group was founded in 1985 to get Democratic women who back abortion access elected to office and...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021

Progressives feel as though their job compromising on the $3.5 trillion dollar budget bill is done, ...

Tue, 14 Sep 2021

Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared before both the House and the Senate this week, where he ...

Mon, 13 Sep 2021

The WBNA's political activism helped to reshape the political landscape in Washington. NPR's Franco ...

Sat, 11 Sep 2021

There were remembrance ceremonies in New York City, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon. The reading o...

Fri, 10 Sep 2021

The number of new COVID cases hasn't been this high since before the vaccine was widely available. A...

Thu, 09 Sep 2021

In a conversation with NPR's Nina Totenberg, Justice Breyer, 83, says he plans to retire from the Hi...

Wed, 08 Sep 2021

Voting ends Tuesday in California's recall election, where voters are deciding whether or not to rem...

Tue, 07 Sep 2021

Some twelve million Americans saw their expanded unemployment assistance expire Monday as the delta ...

Mon, 06 Sep 2021

The Biden administration is investigating several states over their bans on mask mandates in schools...

Fri, 03 Sep 2021

On Sept. 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked by four al-Qaida terrorists. The passeng...

Thu, 02 Sep 2021

President Joe Biden's approval rating has dropped to a new low, 43 percent, according to a new poll ...

Wed, 01 Sep 2021

A state law took effect Wednesday banning abortion after about six weeks, before many women even kno...

Tue, 31 Aug 2021

The withdrawal effort managed to evacuate 124,000 people before the last U.S. service member left Af...

Mon, 30 Aug 2021

Much of the country is reeling from natural disasters as COVID hospitalization rates hit levels not ...

Fri, 27 Aug 2021

President Biden has warned there could be more violence coming over the weekend in Afghanistan. Yest...

Fri, 27 Aug 2021

President Biden addressed the nation to offer condolences to the families of the U.S. military perso...

Wed, 25 Aug 2021

The U.S. has only a few more days to evacuate as many as 1,500 Americans and many thousands of Afgha...

Tue, 24 Aug 2021

Moderate House Democrats want to vote on infrastructure before negotiations continue on the big Bide...

Mon, 23 Aug 2021

The U.S. is evacuating thousands of people a day from Kabul, prioritizing Americans and citizens of ...