Rachel Maddow reports on a freight train derailment in Mount Carbon, West Virginia that caused fiery explosions and sent tanker cars carrying Bakken oil into a nearby river.Feb. 17, 2015 ...

It's called the Gang of Eight. On matters of highly sensitive intelligence, eight congressional leaders -- the top two members from each chamber and the Intelligence Committees -- are supposed to ...

As a rule, when politicians tell a story with evolving details, it suggests that that something is amiss. In Montana, for example, Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, has told voters that ...

Tonight on the show, Rachel ran through a list of House Republican demands in exchange for funding the government instead of shutting it down. From the script: Republicans said that they would shut ...

When House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared at Mar-a-Lago on Friday alongside Donald Trump, it was widely understood that both men had something to gain. The beleaguered GOP congressional leader, for ...

President Joe Biden appeared on Howard Stern’s radio show this morning, and as NBC News reported, the incumbent Democrat made some news about his general-election plans. President Joe Biden said ...

Within hours of his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump issued roughly 1,500 pardons and commuted the sentences of 14 Jan. 6 criminals — including violent felons who were in prison for assaulting ...

About a week ago, The New York Times published a curious report on the “absence” of health care as a “top issue” in this year’s election cycle. “In nearly every major presidential race for decades, ...

Rachel Maddow reports on the how four Republican candidates will be given free ad time on some NBC networks to make up for the time Donald Trump spent on the air recently as the host of Saturday Night ...

Rachel Maddow reports on a new effort to ban discrimination against gay people by amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and notes that most people don't ...

U.S. officials told NBC News this week that the Trump administration is launching "a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality in dozens of nations where it's still illegal to be gay ...

It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. The National Association of Black Journalists extended an invitation to Donald Trump to appear at their convention, creating an opportunity for the ...