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Heavy one to start. From our Ground News desk: Israel's government signed off on infrastructure work in Gaza in August—earthmoving, electricity, water, sewer contractors on site in a cleared area near Rafah. Eighteen…
Listen + read script →Heavy lead on the record today. Trump in a Cabinet meeting, asked about gas prices heading into the midterms. He said he doesn't care about the midterms. Said the war comes first. No sanctions, no money, no nothing.…
Listen + read script →We start in Ukraine. Ruslan Kravchenko, the country's chief prosecutor, has resigned amid a call centre corruption scandal. In his resignation letter, Kravchenko denied the allegations and said he did not want his…
Listen + read script →Heavy on power and money today. Let's start with what the president said—and what he said it after. Twenty-four hours after Trump told the press there'd be no escalation, he held another event. On Cuba, he said he'd be…
Listen + read script →Starting in the Middle East. Israel's E1 construction plan, a corridor of settlements east of Jerusalem, risks physically dividing the West Bank into two non-contiguous zones. Separately, B'Tselem's executive director…
Listen + read script →We're leading with a presser that wasn't one — and what it tells you about how two governments handle footage of detained people. From our Ground News desk: back in May, video emerged from Israeli detention facilities…
Listen + read script →We begin in Gaza. An eight-year-old girl and her father were killed when an Israeli strike hit their vehicle on what was her first day of school. Al Jazeera reports the strike occurred as families were attempting to…
Listen + read script →Heavy diplomatic hour. Trump said last night the Strait of Hormuz will open — agreement largely negotiated, his words on Truth Social. Markets moved on it. Iran's Fars News Agency said the same night that claim is…
Listen + read script →We start in Ukraine. President Zelensky said Sunday he expects the war to continue into winter, following talks with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Kyiv. No major breakthrough was announced. Witkoff…
Listen + read script →We're going to start in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it fired ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and a destroyer. The IRGC is framing this as a response to what it calls a…
Listen + read script →Heavy political hour. Trump's PAC just moved ten million dollars into the Texas Senate race — first time his operation's done a general election buy at that scale. That's Ken Paxton's race, and it signals how critical…
Listen + read script →We're going to start in Moscow. U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Vladimir Putin today. President Trump said they are, in his words, bringing with them a proposal to end the war. That's the…
Listen + read script →Heavy diplomatic hour. We're starting overseas with what Trump's legal team just put on record about Castro and Miami. Todd Blanche, Trump's lawyer, stood at the Freedom Tower in Miami this week and told reporters they…
Listen + read script →We have deduplicated the feed. Several stories ran twice. We will cover each once. Starting in the Pacific. Ecuador's government is defending a joint operation with the United States in which American forces sank…
Listen + read script →Heavy legal hour. We start at a podium in May where the sitting president said the Israeli prime minister does whatever he tells him to do. Same answer — one sentence later — he might run for prime minister himself.…
Listen + read script →Two workers have been pulled alive from a collapsed hydropower tunnel in Nepal's Kalimantan region. Rescuers reached them after an extended operation. No further details on their condition have been confirmed on the…
Listen + read script →Heavy morning. Trump just told a room full of sovereign wealth fund managers that Cuba is next — and then asked the press to pretend he didn't say it. Said it twice while asking for the erasure. That's where we start.…
Listen + read script →Gloria Steinem, the feminist organizer, writer, and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, died Thursday at the age of 92. She spent more than six decades as a central figure in the American women's rights movement, from the Equal…
Listen + read script →Heavy one. The military is building a bunker under the White House, and Trump only told us because a lawsuit forced his hand. From our Ground News desk: in March, a federal preservation lawsuit over construction at the…
Listen + read script →We start overseas. The United States struck Iran, and the death toll is now at 18. President Trump said this week that the US can hit Iran, quote, anytime we want. Tehran has characterized several of the strikes as war…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. The president told a rally crowd he ordered testing slowed during a pandemic. The White House called it a joke. He said he doesn't joke. That's where we start. June 2020, Tulsa rally. Trump said to his…
Listen + read script →We start overseas. EU foreign ministers, meeting in Ireland, announced a new mission to support Lebanon's army. On Israel, they remain divided — specifically on whether to impose sanctions over settlement trade. No…
Listen + read script →We're going to start in the Middle East, where the United States has launched a series of strikes on Iran's southern coast. Multiple explosions were reported in several locations near the port city of Sirik. The US has…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. We're opening with what a president said he could do, then actually did it. Then the border, a shooting charge, and Texas politics on the move. From our Ground News desk: in July 2019, Trump sat down and…
Listen + read script →We're leading hard — Hurricane Helene relief in Western North Carolina turned into an ICE enforcement operation. After the storm, a volunteer group called Latinos Aventureros spent 650 hours delivering food, water, and…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. President Trump said Monday the United States will strike Iran, quote, hard, after what he described as Iranian strikes on American personnel in Jordan. That is the on-the-record statement.…
Listen + read script →The lead story sits in plain sight. In March 2012, Obama told Medvedev on a live microphone he'd have more flexibility after the election to negotiate with Putin, and Medvedev said he'd pass the word to Vladimir. That's…
Listen + read script →We're leading on what a senator won't show you, then the Middle East heats up again, and a drug trial failure that reshapes a billion-dollar market. Let's go. From our Ground News desk: Mitch McConnell, the Senate…
Listen + read script →We begin with active conflict. The United States military bombed two IRGC rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Persian Gulf. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps responded by striking US bases in Jordan. Centcom…
Listen + read script →We're starting with the mechanics of control — how a threat that cannot legally happen already changed what gets on air. From our Ground News desk: In July, President Trump told ABC News two networks declined to carry a…
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