Trump Remakes Federal Judiciary In His Image
In June, the Senate confirmed President Trump's 200th judge to the bench. With a dearth of legislative achievements to point to, reshaping the federal judiciary could be the president's most durable l...
1 Jul 202014min
Trump's Disapproval Climbs Alongside US Coronavirus Cases
Amid a renewed spike in coronavirus cases, the number of voters disapproving of the job President Trump is doing is at an all-time high, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. Joe Biden is using th...
30 Jun 202014min
Weekly Roundup: June 26th, 2020
At the first coronavirus taskforce briefing in months, Vice President Mike Pence reiterated that the White House was there to support states in their response to the pandemic and touted the administra...
26 Jun 202026min
Congress Probably Won't Agree On Police Reform
A day after Democrats blocked a Republican proposal in the Senate, they are set to pass a reform plan of their own in the House. Lawmakers appear pessimistic about the chances of compromise legislatio...
25 Jun 202014min
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Holding Steady
The United States isn't experiencing a second wave of the coronavirus—because the first wave never ended. While original hotspots of the outbreak, like New York and New Jersey, have seen declines, pop...
24 Jun 202014min
Who Will Kentucky Pick To Face Mitch McConnell?
Closely-watched congressional primaries in New York and Kentucky will test how well progressives fare in two very different parts of the country. And reporting from a Michigan suburb on how folks ther...
23 Jun 202014min
Trump Fires Lawyer Who Prosecuted His Allies
President Trump has removed a top Justice Department official, Geoffrey Berman, whose office has overseen the prosecutions of several of the president's associates. And the president's Saturday rally ...
22 Jun 202014min
Weekly Roundup: June 19th, 2020
In Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday, President Trump will hold his first campaign rally since the coronavirus pandemic seized the United States. The top public health official there said he hoped it would ...
19 Jun 202023min
