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After GOP passes budget resolution, Congress to-do list only gets tougher from here

4:05pm February 25, 2025

Now that a GOP approved a framework, the party needs to fill in the blanks for a sweeping multitrillion plan to address defense, energy, immigration and tax policy.

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How to bridge our political divide? A pastor's answer: Do unto others

6:00am November 19, 2024

A Pennsylvania church just blocks from where then-candidate Donald Trump's would-be assassin lived created a sermon series on the Golden Rule to try to bridge political divisions in its congregation.

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Which high-profile Republican says they are voting for Harris? Find out in the quiz

5:00am September 06, 2024

Queens of the chart, field and Maori adorn the quiz this week, and we also address seasonal topics like memoirs and TV shows. Enjoy it while you can!

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What Kentucky can teach Democrats about winning in red districts

5:00am August 27, 2024

To win the White House, the Harris-Walz ticket will need to appeal to voters in purple areas, and maybe even red ones. We asked Democrats who live in those parts of the country what could make that happen.

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VP nominee Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris, and former President Donald Trump.

Why 'weird' works for Tim Walz and Kamala Harris

6:34pm August 13, 2024

Ever since Minnesota governor and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz called Republicans "weird," we've seen other Democrats embrace this name-calling strategy and deploy it in interviews and in memes online. We've also seen Republicans lobbing the "weird" moniker right back at Democrats. To get into how "weird" this all is, Brittany chats with NPR culture reporter Andrew Limbong and NPR political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben about this new political strategy and redefining "normalcy" in 2024.

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It seems like Project 2025 is everywhere. But what is it?

2:10pm July 11, 2024

by Franco Ordoñez

After calling Project 2025 "ridiculous," Trump continued to distance himself from the conservative roadmap for the next Republican president. Meanwhile, the Biden team wants to tie the plan to Trump.

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Anti-abortion activists who describe themselves as "abolitionists" protest outside a fertility clinic in North Carolina in April 2024.

Politics & Government

Republicans try to soften stance on abortion as 'abolitionists' go farther

7:30pm May 21, 2024

by Sarah McCammon

Activists who describe themselves as "abortion abolitionists" want to charge women who have abortions with homicide and ban the fertility treatment known as IVF, saying life begins at conception.

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump attends a news conference with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., on April 12, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla.

Trump may get another chance to be president. He's planning an aggressive second term

5:11pm April 30, 2024

by Stephen Fowler

In a new interview with TIME Magazine, Trump promises to prosecute President Biden, unleash the National Guard on immigrants and says it's "irrelevant" if he's comfortable criminalizing abortions.

A citizen deposits a ballot into a box at the county clerk's office in Erie, Pa., on Oct. 15, 2020.

This Pennsylvania county picks presidents. Here's what it can tell us about 2024

4:40pm April 15, 2024

by Don Gonyea

Erie County, Pa., is one of just a handful of places that boomeranged from supporting Obama in 2008 and 2012, to Trump in 2016, to Biden in 2020. It's worth watching in 2024.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Oct. 27, 2016 at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

Politics & Government

Ohio has been a bellwether and a battleground: What is it telling us now?

5:00am March 23, 2024

by Ron Elving

Ohio was the model bellwether state until 2020. In that year, Ohio gave a solid majority of its vote to then-incumbent President Donald Trump, but he still lost the White House to Joe Biden.