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Heavy morning. Ground News first — energy policy and the President's word over ten days. September 22nd, Trump at the UN beside Zelensky. He said he'd called for a diesel export ban, and his Energy Secretary Bessent was…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour on the Middle East and U.S. power moves. Let's go. From our Ground News desk: Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir laid out a formal expulsion plan for Gaza on September third. He called it…
Listen + read script →We start in the United States, where this week's midterm elections have reshaped the political landscape. Republicans lost control of both the House and Senate, with Democrats flipping enough congressional seats to…
Listen + read script →We're leading with Iran policy and the four-to-six-week number. Trump said it would take that long to eliminate the nuclear threat. He said he did it in one night. But the fact-check is the story — because he was the…
Listen + read script →Four substantive stories today, one structural story, and we're skipping the quiz item — that one's formatted as entertainment content and doesn't belong in this drop. Here's what we have. We start with the midterm…
Listen + read script →Heavy legal hour. The DOJ just filed an appeal it said didn't exist — and the stakes are a permanent bar on auditing Trump's returns. From our Ground News desk: in September, the Trump administration claimed a…
Listen + read script →Two ministers in Israel's security cabinet sent Netanyahu a letter this week demanding he publicly reject a six-billion-dollar reconstruction plan for Gaza — one that was just tabled at the UN with 66 costed programs…
Listen + read script →The Trump administration filed a plan to monetize presidential announcements. Sixty to one hundred thousand dollars a month for early access to posts that are technically public. The company is Trump Media. The largest…
Listen + read script →Morning. We're leading with the Supreme Court and what the Attorney General volunteered in the Rose Garden about replacing justices who won't toe the line. Then the ballot fight stays open, and we'll hit the BBC's…
Listen + read script →Heavy morning on elections and power. Let's go. The Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice sued California on October 15th asking a federal court to set aside more than 20,000 cast ballots —…
Listen + read script →Heavy media hour. Two networks refused to carry a primetime address live this summer, and the president said they should lose their licenses. That threat got wall-to-wall coverage. What happened after — the actual…
Listen + read script →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,…
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