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Audio narrations from AskWhy.News. We contextualize the news, the facts, the disputes, and the historical throughline behind every story, answering the question the headlines skip: but why? Long-form ... more
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.
July 01, 2026[News] The United States Walks Away From Renewing USMCA, Putting a $2 Trillion Trade Relationship on an Annual TimerWashington declined to lock in another 16 years of the North American trade pact, so the deal stays in force but now faces yearly reviews and parallel bilateral talks with Canada and Mexico....more14minPlay
July 01, 2026[News] Trump's Disclosure Shows Roughly $1.2 to $1.4 Billion in Crypto Income, and Reopens a Two-Century Argument About Presidents and ProfitA nearly 1,000-page federal filing shows cryptocurrency, not real estate, was the president's largest source of income in his first year back in office, raising conflict-of-interest questions that have no clean answer in existing law....more20minPlay
July 01, 2026[News] Amnesty Says Sudan's RSF Committed Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in el-FasherA major human rights report accuses Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of a systematic, ethnically targeted campaign against civilians during the siege and capture of Darfur's last army-held city, naming three commanders, as the same force now closes in on el-Obeid....more16minPlay
July 01, 2026[News] After the Court Says No, Republicans Turn to Congress: The SAVE Act, the Defense Bill Gambit, and a Wave of Birthright BillsAfter the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship and let late-arriving mail ballots stand, President Trump and House Republicans are trying to move their goals through Congress instead, but the bills face a divided Senate, the 60-vote filibuster, and a constitutional wall....more23minPlay
July 01, 2026[News] Congo's Ebola Outbreak Passes 1,300 Cases as Experts Warn America's Disease Defenses Are Being DismantledA rare species of Ebola has spread across all of northeastern Congo even as the United States cuts the aid, surveillance, and research programs that specialists say are the country's first line of defense against outbreaks abroad....more14minPlay
July 01, 2026[News] John Brennan Sues to Freeze the Record of a Probe He Calls "Vindictive"Former CIA Director John Brennan asked a federal court to order the Trump administration to preserve records of two criminal investigations into him, arguing they are political retaliation, while a Democratic senator, Ruben Gallego, faces a separate federal probe of his own....more16minPlay
July 01, 2026[Throughline] U.S. Global Health Engagement and Pandemic PreparednessEbola disease is caused by a group of related viruses in the family Filoviridae....more17minPlay
July 01, 2026[Throughline] The Justice Department, Its Independence, and the Politics of ProsecutionThe Attorney General is a creation of the first Congress, established in the Judiciary Act of 1789, and the Justice Department itself was formalized in 1870....more18minPlay
June 30, 2026[News] "Quiet Annexation": Settler Violence, Burned Olive Groves, and the World's Response in the West BankA sharp rise in settler attacks and land seizures in the occupied West Bank has drawn coordinated Western sanctions, a Norwegian trade ban, and warnings from inside Israel itself that "annexation" is happening in all but name....more17minPlay
June 30, 2026[News] A "Trump Interstate" Across 1,800 Miles: Inside the Proposed I-47 and What "Future Interstate" Really MeansA proposed bill would label nearly 1,800 miles of US Highway 287 as future Interstate 47 in honor of President Trump, a designation that names a road but does not, by itself, fund or build one....more32minPlay
FAQs about AskWhy.News:How many episodes does AskWhy.News have?The podcast currently has 303 episodes available.