Politics : NPR

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson visited Columbia University this past week amid protests surrounding the Israel-Hamas war. Johnson met with Jewish students who expressed concerns for their safe...

https://npr.org/2024/04/28/1247725906/jewish-students-at-columbia-meet-with-speaker-mike-johnson

Three decades ago, South Africa held its first democratic election, closing the door on the apartheid era. And Nelson Mandela was elected its first Black president. Today, the country is still...

https://npr.org/2024/04/28/1198911354/30-years-since-the-end-of-apartheid-is-south-africa-still-an-emblem-of-democracy

Police took more than 250 protesters into custody in Arizona, Indiana, Massachusetts and Missouri this weekend, as the war in Gaza continues to embroil campuses across the nation.

https://npr.org/2024/04/28/1247706001/campus-protests-gaza-arrests-arizona-indiana-northeastern-columbia

We add context to answers given by Representative Nancy Mace's interview on the Trump trials.

https://npr.org/2024/04/28/1247703043/fact-check-south-carolina-rep-nancy-maces-statements-on-the-trump-trials

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Representative Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, about recent developments in former President Trump's legal battles.

https://npr.org/2024/04/28/1247703036/south-carolina-rep-nancy-mace-on-trumps-trial-and-what-it-means-for-the-election

Political roasts at last night's White House Correspondent's dinner, plus how the election-year landscape is shaping up for control of each chamber of Congress.

https://npr.org/2024/04/28/1247702966/politics-chat-white-house-correspondents-dinner-control-of-congress

The war in Gaza spurred large protests outside a glitzy roast with President Joe Biden, journalists, politicians and celebrities Saturday but went all but unmentioned by participants inside.

https://npr.org/2024/04/28/1247687244/gaza-protestors-picket-white-house-correspondents-dinner-as-biden-ribs-trump

The Republican South Dakota governor details what she says was a tough decision to shoot an "untrainable" family dog in a forthcoming memoir. Animal rights advocates and Democrats decried the mov...

https://npr.org/2024/04/27/1247666219/kristi-noem-dog-controversy-trump-vp

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized ongoing campus protests across the U.S. as antisemitic. The Vermont senator said it was an attempt to "deflect attention" from Israel's action...

https://npr.org/2024/04/27/1247670359/bernie-sanders-netanyahu-gaza-college-protests-antisemitism

It was a big week in the world of former President Donald Trump's legal battles. Witnesses testified in the hush money trial and the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning Trump's immunity clai...

https://npr.org/2024/04/27/1247677534/trumps-hush-money-trial-starts-as-his-team-hopes-for-delay