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We'll start in Ukraine. A Russian strike on a munitions depot near Kyiv triggered a chain of explosions and fires that killed at least 38 people and wounded dozens more. The on-the-record death toll makes this one of…
Listen + read script →Treasury just put currency law on a podium. We're leading there, then North Carolina disaster response — where federal agents showed up instead of aid. The Treasury Secretary, on the record at a White House briefing,…
Listen + read script →We'll start with a story that may be the single largest resource claim made by any U.S. administration in recent memory. President Trump announced this week that the United States has entered an agreement with Venezuela…
Listen + read script →We're leading with a threat against a two-hundred-year ally. Trump told Oman on camera he would blow the country up if it didn't comply with his demands on the Strait of Hormuz. The Omani ambassador responded through…
Listen + read script →We're starting with the president on war and the midterms — and what he said he won't spend money on. From our Ground News desk: in a Cabinet meeting last week, Trump was asked about gas prices. His answer was not about…
Listen + read script →We start in the West Bank. Israeli authorities have installed three new military gates around Palestinian homes in the village of Qusra, tightening what residents describe as a weeks-long settler siege. The gates…
Listen + read script →We're leading with the president on Cuba. Twenty-four hours after he said no escalation, Trump told reporters he'll be the one to do it — move on the island. He said other presidents looked at it for fifty, sixty years.…
Listen + read script →Courts and power first. From our Ground News desk: in May, Israeli President Herzog said it is forbidden to abuse prisoners. Four days earlier, a video of what authorities called abuse had circulated. National Security…
Listen + read script →We start in Algeria. At least twelve people are dead and fifty-four injured after wildfires tore through the country's northeastern regions on Tuesday. Six victims are reported in critical condition. Algerian…
Listen + read script →Courts and campaigns first. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is fighting to keep deposition transcripts sealed — transcripts from a securities fraud case where he testified under oath. James Talarico's campaign, that's…
Listen + read script →Heavy morning. Flash flood in Nepal has killed at least seventeen people. The Rasuwa district, north of Kathmandu on the Tibet border — villages swept away. Rescue teams are still searching. BBC reports the exact death…
Listen + read script →Starting in South Carolina. Darline Graham, appointed to her late brother Lindsey Graham's Senate seat in July at President Trump's urging, has won the Republican primary runoff against Rep. Ralph Norman. She took 52.6…
Listen + read script →Starting with elections. The Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged that the voter roll figures it publicized earlier this year were inflated. The administration had claimed to have identified 250,000…
Listen + read script →Heavy morning. We start overseas with a governance question that ate itself in the news cycle, then pivot to a Senate candidate who walked into live fire on cable, and then the money — defense black box, health cuts…
Listen + read script →We're starting in Haiti. At least thirty people were killed in a gang attack on a hillside community that overlooks the main routes into Port-au-Prince. The location is strategic: control of that high ground affects…
Listen + read script →Heavy legal hour. Texas governor blocking extradition, Trump softening on Cuba after weeks of harder talk, and Treasury moving sanctions architecture on Iran. Let's start with the extradition fight. Texas Governor Greg…
Listen + read script →We're leading with a moment from the White House that most newsrooms ran as comedy. It's not. The setup: Trump at a presser last week said he's polling higher in Venezuela than anyone has ever polled there. He then said…
Listen + read script →The Associated Press reports that House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and outside adviser, met privately in New York. The New York Times first reported the meeting…
Listen + read script →We start in Guinea, where at least thirty people are dead after a landfill collapse in the capital, Conakry. Heavy rains triggered a landslide at a major waste site, burying several homes. The government has confirmed…
Listen + read script →We begin in Sudan. Thousands of civilians are fleeing fighting in the Kordofan region, moving toward El Obeid. The city is described as relative safety, which tells you something about the conditions people are leaving…
Listen + read script →Water crisis first. Texas state planners don't use climate projections when they model future supply — they're still running numbers on historical data while the state gets hit with extreme droughts that history didn't…
Listen + read script →We'll start with trade. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared Saturday that the United States, quote, attacked Canada, after trade talks collapsed and Washington moved to implement a fifty percent tariff on…
Listen + read script →Heavy economics this morning. U.S. tariffs on Canada just went live at midnight — fifty percent on twenty billion dollars worth of goods. Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will match that dollar for dollar.…
Listen + read script →We have two confirmed duplicate stories in today's feed. The Palestinian-British girl story and the Peru landslide story each appear twice. We'll cover each once. Starting in the UK. Saja el-Khawas, a six-year-old…
Listen + read script →We're leading with a credibility gap that never closed. February 2020 — Anthony Fauci emailed that the typical mask you buy in a drug store is not effective in keeping out virus. Quote: I do not recommend that you wear…
Listen + read script →The United States has expanded its sanctions on Cuba. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the latest round, targeting an international socialist institute and Cuba's construction ministry. No further details on the…
Listen + read script →Heavy start. May 2017. The Oval Office. Trump told Russia he wasn't worried about election interference because the US does the same in other countries. Classified memo. American press locked out. Russian state…
Listen + read script →We start with a domestic governance story. President Trump posted on Truth Social in July that Washington D.C. went from, quote, high crime to no crime, and credited his deployment of the National Guard. A Reuters…
Listen + read script →Hard morning ahead. Two graduate students at Cornell University are being pressured by the Ivy League institution itself — their funding threatened unless they return to the United States, where the Trump administration…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. The 60-day ceasefire between the United States and Iran expired Monday with no diplomatic or military resolution in place. President Trump this week threatened what he called tremendous…
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