Top 100 FavoritesBlog

Apple Podcasts · United States · Sep 13, 2026

Best News Podcasts

The top 100 News shows on the Apple Podcasts chart (US), plus the episodes trending right now.

Trending News episodes

The episodes everyone is playing today. Tap to listen.

#1

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World is Now on the Table

The Daily · 37 min

#2

Dallas Bribers Club

Pod Save America · 1 h 48 min

#3

BRICS Summit in India, Amazon Air Plane Crash, Federal Film Tax Bill

Up First from NPR · 15 min

#4

Ep. #741: Terry Bradshaw, Max Brooks, Sarah Longwell

Real Time with Bill Maher · 59 min

#5

Trump's 9/11 Fiction, a Major AI Warning, and Apple's Foldable iPhone

Pivot · 1 h 07 min

#6

His Act Is Getting Old

The Opinions · 34 min

#7

AI Whistleblower: OpenAI Scandal, AI Cults, Neuralink & Our Last Chance to Stop the Tech Oligarchs

The Tucker Carlson Show · 2 h 00 min

#8

OpenAI-ing Pandora's Box

Lovett or Leave It · 1 h 00 min

#9

Is a Blue Wave Really Coming?

The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 47 min

#10

Follow The Money

#SistersInLaw · 1 h 20 min

#11

Something's Happening in Texas (with Chris Hooks)

The Focus Group Podcast · 55 min

#12

Mehdi Hasan: 9/11's Fallout 25 Years Later

The Bulwark Daily · 1 h 04 min

New in News

Brand new shows that entered this chart within two weeks of launch.

#86 newReceipts with Catherine RampellReceipts with Catherine Rampell

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

The Daily

The New York Times

— 2

Up First from NPR

NPR

— 3

Pod Save America

Pod Save America

— 4

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

▲ 1 5

Still Counting

Crooked Media

▼ 1 6

The Bulwark Daily

The Bulwark

— 7

The Tucker Carlson Show

Tucker Carlson Network

— 8

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

▲ 1 9

Pivot

New York Magazine

▼ 1 10

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

▲ 4 11

NPR News Now

NPR

▲ 2 12

IHIP News

Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan

▲ 3 13

Morning Wire

The Daily Wire

▼ 1 14

The Journal.

The Wall Street Journal & Spotify Studios

▲ 4 15

Candace

Candace Owens

▼ 4 16

Today, Explained

Vox

▲ 7 17

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

▲ 7 18

The Dan Bongino Show

Cumulus Podcast Network | Dan Bongino

▼ 2 19

The Headlines

The New York Times

▼ 9 20

Global News Podcast

BBC World Service

▲ 2 21

The Glenn Beck Program

Mercury Radio Arts

▲ 5 22

Apple News Today

Apple News

▼ 3 23

Lovett or Leave It

Lovett or Leave It

▲ 33 24

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

▲ 1 25

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

▼ 4 26

Letters from an American

Heather Cox Richardson

▲ 5 27

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

— 28

Real Time with Bill Maher

HBO Podcasts

▲ 159 29

Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov

Vox Media Podcast Network

▼ 12 30

The Matt Walsh Show

The Daily Wire

▼ 10 31

Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words

Victor Davis Hanson | The Daily Signal

▲ 6 32

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

▲ 2 33

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 5 34

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2 35

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

▲ 1 36

The Charlie Kirk Show

Charlie Kirk

▼ 1 37

The World and Everything In It

WORLD Radio

▼ 7 38

All In with Chris Hayes

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

▲ 6 39

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

▲ 6 40

Consider This from NPR

NPR

— 41

The President's Daily Brief

The First TV

▼ 2 42

The Opinions

The New York Times Opinion

▲ 74 43

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

▲ 54 44

The Morgan Stewart Show

Morgan Stewart

▼ 15 45

The Michael Knowles Show

The Daily Wire

▼ 4 46

The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

▲ 30 47

Ruthless Podcast

Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook

▼ 14 48

The Next Level

The Bulwark

▲ 45 49

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast, Joanna Coles

▲ 5 50

Plain English with Derek Thompson

The Ringer

▼ 3

Browse more categories

Related charts and all main categories.

All Podcasts Spotify Ranking Arts Business Business News Comedy Daily News Education Entertainment News Fiction Government Health & Fitness History Kids & Family Leisure Music News Commentary Politics Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture Sports Sports News Tech News Technology True Crime TV & Film

Top News podcasts

This chart lists the most popular News podcasts in the United States, based on the Apple Podcasts rankings and updated every day. Open any show for its latest episodes, 90-day chart trend and listener reviews.

Contact

Questions or issues? Reach us at hello@reason.fm

0:000:00