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We start with active conflict. US forces have struck multiple sites in Iran overnight, hitting Bushehr, Chabahar, Bandar Abbas, and Jask. At least one person was killed in Iranshahr. Widespread power outages are…
Listen + read script →We start overseas. NATO has pledged 70 billion euros in support for Ukraine. That announcement came alongside a public appearance between President Trump and President Zelenskyy, during which Trump said the U.S. will…
Listen + read script →We start at the NATO summit in Turkey. President Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran over after Iran struck bases hosting U.S. forces in Kuwait and Bahrain. The U.S. had responded with its own strikes before Trump…
Listen + read script →We start with the most active conflict on the board. The United States has launched new strikes on Iran, hitting Sirik, Qeshm, and Bandar Abbas. The stated trigger was Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of…
Listen + read script →We begin in the United States, where a federal lawsuit filed this week accuses the Trump administration of using ICE as a tool to silence its critics. The case centers on a man who compared the acting ICE director to a…
Listen + read script →We'll start overseas. Multiple explosions struck Damascus today while French President Emmanuel Macron was visiting Syria for talks with President Ahmad al-Sharaa. Four people were wounded. Macron's office confirmed he…
Listen + read script →We start in Ukraine. President Zelensky is heading to the NATO summit in Turkey with one primary ask: more interceptor missiles. This follows a wave of intense Russian strikes. He wants member states to commit to…
Listen + read script →We start with Charlie Kirk. A suspect named Tyler Robinson, 23, appeared in court charged with murdering Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA and a prominent Trump ally. Kirk's family attended the hearing. The…
Listen + read script →We start in the Philippines. The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte opened today before the Philippine Senate. She faces charges of misusing government funds and of making threats against President…
Listen + read script →We start in the West Bank. A Palestinian infant has died after Israeli forces blocked urgent medical care, according to Al Jazeera. Israeli troops also shot and killed a 16-year-old boy in the occupied West Bank, and…
Listen + read script →We start with the United States at 250. President Trump delivered a speech on the National Mall yesterday marking the nation's semiquincentennial, praising Americans as, in his words, a historic and heroic people. The…
Listen + read script →The United States turns 250 today. President Trump marked the occasion with a speech at Mount Rushmore that NPR describes as a departure from the typically apolitical, unifying addresses past presidents have given on…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. At least seven Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces over the past 48 hours in Gaza, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health. A further nine bodies were recovered from beneath…
Listen + read script →Today is the two-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of American independence, and the coverage landscape is exactly what you would expect: a split screen between celebration and reckoning. We are going to work through both,…
Listen + read script →We start in Venezuela. A series of earthquakes has reduced the tourist town of Cumaná to rubble, destroying homes, businesses, and the local economy. Residents are still recovering. The government's disaster response…
Listen + read script →We start in South America. Keiko Fujimori has been officially declared the winner of Peru's presidential election. No vote margin or certification detail has been released in the reporting yet, so that is where the…
Listen + read script →We start in the West Bank. Israel's government has approved a plan to establish thirteen new settlements in occupied Palestinian territory. Palestinian officials say the move would further isolate East Jerusalem,…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. Iran's state funeral for Ali Khamenei is drawing massive crowds in Tehran today, while Iranian officials publicly condemned the United States ahead of the ceremony. Separately, Lebanon's…
Listen + read script →We start in Damascus. An explosive device detonated inside a café in the city's Al-Hijaz area, killing at least six people and injuring twenty-two. The blast occurred near Damascus's main courthouse. Syria's new…
Listen + read script →We start in Texas, where two vaccination stories out of the Texas Tribune need to be read together. After the deadly 2025 measles outbreak, kindergarten vaccination rates in Texas did tick upward slightly. But in the…
Listen + read script →We start overseas. At least one person was killed in overnight airstrikes on Kyiv. The attack came hours after President Zelensky publicly warned that Russia was planning what he called a massive strike. The timing is…
Listen + read script →A Ukrainian national has been charged in Germany in connection with the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions. Ukraine has denied any involvement. The case is now formally before German prosecutors. The structural fact…
Listen + read script →We start overseas. Russian strikes killed three people in Ukraine overnight. Kyiv responded with drone strikes on an oil refinery deep inside Russian territory. President Zelenskyy confirmed Ukraine is expanding its…
Listen + read script →We start at the Supreme Court, which issued its final rulings of the term today. The headline decision: the Court upheld birthright citizenship, rejecting the executive order President Trump signed earlier this year…
Listen + read script →We'll start at the Supreme Court, which handed down several significant rulings today. On birthright citizenship: the Court unanimously affirmed that the Fourteenth Amendment means what it says. Children born on US soil…
Listen + read script →We start with a data point on U.S. science. NPR spoke with three American researchers who relocated to British universities after Trump's re-election. All three cited funding uncertainty and policy pressure on their…
Listen + read script →The Supreme Court handed down a cluster of major rulings Friday, and the coverage split almost immediately into rival headlines. Here is what the record shows. The Court struck down long-standing limits on the…
Listen + read script →We start at the Supreme Court, where two separate decisions came down against the White House today. First: the Court blocked President Trump's attempt to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. The administration…
Listen + read script →We start with the US-Iran front. Former US Ambassador to Oman Richard Schmierer told Al Jazeera that the recent round of military exchanges between Washington and Tehran appears to be over. His assessment is based on…
Listen + read script →We start in Venezuela. Four days after a major earthquake collapsed buildings and buried residents, search and rescue teams pulled a father and son out of the rubble alive. Footage of the extraction has been circulating…
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