Renewed Political Tensions Have Iranian Americans Identifying As People Of Color
Facing increasing scrutiny in the Trump era, many Iranian Americans in Chicago are turning to other minority groups as allies.
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Trump Impeachment Trial Winds Down With Closing Arguments
Both sides made their closing arguments in President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate.
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Facing Uncertainty, Cook County Pauses Plans For New Provident Hospital
The county-run health system, Cook County Health, says plans for the new South Side hospital are on hold as it searches for a new CEO.
Special Episode: On The Ground in Iowa
In this special episode of the NPR Politics Podcast, Scott Detrow travels to candidate events around the state of Iowa days and speaks with our campaign reporters about the themes of the race in the days before the first-in-the-nation caucus.This episode: campaign correspondents Scott Detrow and Asma Khalid, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
NPR Politics Live From Des Moines: The Road To 2020
This is a special episode, recorded in front of a live audience at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines, IA on Friday, January 31. The cast breaks down everything you need to know about the upcoming Iowa caucuses and how impeachment is affecting the race. This episode: political correspondent Asma Khalid, campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro and IPR’s lead political reporter Clay Masters. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations. Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
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Witness Vote Fails, But Impeachment Trial Stretches To Next Week
The Senate adjourned for the weekend, but the impeachment trial of President Trump is not over. Senators voted not to hear from new witnesses on Friday — a move Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called it a “grand tragedy.” This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional editor Deirdre Walsh, and Congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell.
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No Witnesses In Impeachment Trial: Senate Vote Signals Trump To Be Acquitted Soon
The Senate has voted 51 to 49 not to call witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial.
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Questions of Foreign Interference Continue as Trial Moves Closer to Vote on Witnesses
Close to a vote on whether to include witnesses, the White House legal team continued to defend its argument that the president sometimes has authority to ask foreign powers to investigate political rivals in the name of public interest.
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Impeachment Trial Q&A Enters Last Day Before Moving To Vote On Witnesses
More questions lie ahead, but eyes are focused on what will come next: an acquittal for Trump, or entering a witness phase of the trial.
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Crooked Ex-Chicago Cop Fights To Get His Pension
The city’s police pension board voted to give former Officer William Pruente what he wanted — but quickly had second thoughts.
