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Hillary Clinton joins the exclusive club of men who reached for, but failed to grasp, our nation's highest elected office. From Aaron Burr to Al Gore, here's a look at the company Clinton joins.

Progressive groups have enjoyed a fundraising bonanza since Trump's election. Whether it's the ACLU or Planned Parenthood, the cash is flowing in to organizations opposed to Trump and his policies.

As President Trump heads into a week of meetings with allies and rivals, Steve Inskeep talks to former Assistant Defense Secretary Mary Beth Long about how the investigations might affect talks.

President Trump has called out the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, but the recent ruling on withholding federal grants was made by a single district court judge.

President Trump plays a lot of golf. But not nearly as much as Woodrow Wilson.

The Electoral College will vote Monday for the next president. The 538 electors have enormous power and are supposed to vote as the people of their state voted. On rare occasions, some electors don't.

George Washington began the tradition of the presidential farewell address in 1796. President Obama will continue the tradition with a speech Jan. 10 at Chicago's McCormick Place.

Being Speaker of the House is a thankless job these days. A public that distrusts Washington and a sharply polarized Congress helped make it particularly hard for John Boehner.

The politics, parodies and jokes of Saturday Night Live have been making viewers laugh — and sometimes cringe — for decades. As the show begins its new season, NPR TV critic Eric Deggans focuses on the highs and lows of SNL's last 40 years.

A new study investigates whether common ownership of cereal makers by institutional investors is leading them to become a kind of stealth monopoly.