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Heavy load on military entanglement and oil. Let's start with the Rest of the Story from our Ground News desk. Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act — the annual defense bill Congress votes on — contains…
Listen + read script →Heavy opening. Attorney General Todd Blanche, sworn in August tenth, is speaking at the RNC's first Midterm Convention in Dallas this week — they're calling it Trump-a-Palooza, one hundred nine speakers. Same week, the…
Listen + read script →We start in Texas. President Trump made his fourth visit to the state in two months on Tuesday, touching down in Corpus Christi and then Lubbock, where he held a rally for Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton. Paxton…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour ahead. Netanyahu's in Gaza saying demilitarization is largely achieved. Same week he signed that nothing gets rebuilt until it is. Let's start there. From our Ground News desk — Netanyahu visited the Yellow…
Listen + read script →We're leading with equity stakes and federal power — then the courts, then the borderlands. Heavy hour. From our Ground News desk: the President claimed Sunday he'd made hundreds of billions in stock gains for the…
Listen + read script →We're leading on Gaza policy and a documentary record that doesn't match the public line. Then New York's immigration pressure cooker, the Justice Department suing over Alaska's Senate race, and Nigeria. Heavy politics…
Listen + read script →Heavy one to lead. The White House announced Friday night — six forty-seven PM, posted on Truth Social — that the United States has secured majority control of more than sixty-five billion barrels of proven oil reserves…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We start overseas, move through a diplomatic development in Asia, then land on domestic politics. Let's get into it. In Hebron, Israeli forces have demolished homes belonging to Palestinian…
Listen + read script →Six stories today. We'll move from a US flood emergency to international protests, a public health milestone, and two political stories that are worth separating carefully. Let's get into it. First: severe flooding is…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. Israel, Iran, and the machinery underneath both. Let's start with what was said versus what got reported. From our Ground News desk — in August, Netanyahu held a televised cabinet meeting and said Israel…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We are going to start with money, move through the Ohio governor's race, then federal law enforcement and elections, then the raid on a sitting congresswoman's home, and close on Starlink and…
Listen + read script →We're leading with what two world leaders said versus what officials say they actually said. Then we're on Trump's meme-coin dinner, campus sexual assault investigations that just went quiet, and gas prices on the…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We'll start domestic, move through courts and policy, and then head overseas. At a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio on Wednesday, a heckler disguised in a suit and a MAGA cap managed to get…
Listen + read script →We have five stories today. We start overseas, where a drone strike has killed at least 150 people at a market in Abyei, a disputed territory on the border between Sudan and South Sudan. Al Jazeera reported the strike…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We'll start with public health, move through politics and diplomacy, and close on something a little more unusual. Here's the run. The CDC has added a third measles death to its federal tally…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We'll start in Ukraine, move through domestic enforcement and policy, then close out with Spain and a brief sports note. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is publicly seeking answers…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. The DOJ charged twenty-eight green card holders in California with voter fraud Monday — illegal voter registration, illegal ballots cast. Eleven arrested so far, more warrants outstanding. Trump appointees…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We'll start in Eastern Europe, move through the Middle East, then come stateside and close out with two media stories. Here's what you need. First, Ukraine. A senior adviser to President…
Listen + read script →We start in Australia. Independent Member of Parliament Helen Haines was struck by a car outside her electorate office in Wodonga, Victoria, and is reported to be in critical condition. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,…
Listen + read script →We start in East Africa. Kenyan health authorities have confirmed an eighth case of Ebola as a regional outbreak continues to widen. Officials say the latest patient was most likely exposed through contact with Kenya's…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. Let's start with the records the families have been asking for since 2001. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of September eleventh, Terry Strada stood at ground zero in front of every living former president…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We're leading with the war zones, then moving to diplomacy, domestic policy, diaspora politics, and closing on a death in sport that stopped a tournament in its tracks. First, Sudan. Al…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We're starting in the Strait of Hormuz, moving through Yemen, the West Bank, France, and then two domestic political stories out of Washington. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says…
Listen + read script →Heavy one out of the gate. Federal judge Ana Reyes stopped a Trump administration team cold in open court Monday over a D.C. golf course project. The president wants to turn a public course into a championship-level…
Listen + read script →We start in Gaza. Israeli drone strikes killed six Palestinians across the territory on Saturday, according to reporting by Al Jazeera. The attacks hit several areas despite what has been described as an active…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We start in Sudan, move through the West Bank, the Philippines, Texas, a diamond in France, and we close with cricket. Here is the news. Sudan's military says it killed dozens of fighters from…
Listen + read script →We start in the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump claimed Friday that a US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships from crossing the strait, a chokepoint through which roughly a fifth of the world's oil supply…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. We start with the structure underneath the pandemic record. From our Ground News desk: between 2020 and 2024, the NIH and NIAID held co-inventorship patents on the mRNA vaccine platform they were…
Listen + read script →We start at the White House. President Trump cast doubt Friday on the future of his press secretary, Katie Zacharia, whose first official day in the role was Monday. According to NPR, Trump reportedly fired Zacharia…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We'll start with the raid on a sitting member of Congress, move through Gaza's winter crisis, India's voter rolls, a new China-North Korea infrastructure project, a ProPublica investigation…
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