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213 episodes transcribedThe Trump administration flew planes with Venezuelan detainees to a prison in El Salvador, despite a court order blocking the flights. A judge is dema...
More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of Trump's campaign to end DEI programs that his officials...
The Trump administration is taking its fight to nullify birthright citizenship to the U.S. Supreme Court. To date, every court to have considered Trum...
As the U.S. is embattled in a shifting trade war with Canada and impending tariffs from the European Union loom, bourbon makers in Kentucky are trying...
The day before steel and aluminum tariffs on all U.S. trading partners are set to go into effect, President Trump announced — and then hours later res...
Hear an update on Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student and protest leader arrested by ICE over the weekend. A federal judge has halt...
The U.S.-Mexico border is quieter than it's been in years. Vice President Vance says the Trump administration deserves the credit, but migrant apprehe...
The U.S. State Department said it would stop publishing global air pollution data as part of attempts to shrink federal spending. The program set a wo...
President Trump says U.S. automakers will get a one-month break on steep tariffs for Canadian and Mexican goods. Support NPR and hear every episode sp...
In his address to a joint session of Congress, President Trump talked about his work to secure the border, slash the size of the government, and his n...
Majorities say the state of the union is not strong, that the country is headed in the wrong direction and President Trump is rushing to make changes...
A pause on the release of $2 billion in foreign aid could affect the government's longest-running permanent program for international food assistance...
Can the president spend less money than congress directed be spent? It comes down to a legal question around what's known as impoundment. Support NPR...
White House's efforts to target the so-called "woke" military is impacting long-standing relationships and practices at the Defense Department, includ...
The fight over the U.S. Department of Education has begun, but the battle lines are a little blurry.President Trump says he wants to close the departm...
Federal employees were told they have until the end of Monday to detail what they accomplished last week or face firing. Some bosses said to hold on b...
Elon Musk is working to slash federal spending while also promoting his business ventures. Experts in government ethics are worried he's acting in his...
President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to give the president greater power over independent regulatory agencies — government entities Co...
European leaders have called an emergency meeting in Paris Monday after the Trump administration has cut Europe out of negotiations on ending the war...
The No. 2 acting official at the DOJ, Emil Bove, has been shaking up the agency and its past work on the 2021 Capitol riot. But he also has his own hi...
