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Heavy on power and money today. Let's go. Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered a statewide halt on data center approvals Monday. The Public Utility Commission and ERCOT — that's the grid operator — have to audit every…
Listen + read script →We start overseas. A drone struck a crowded beach near the Russian Black Sea resort of Gelendzhik on Monday. Russia says seven people were killed and at least forty injured. Three of the dead were children. Video…
Listen + read script →We've got the attorney general backing down on a billion-eight, the FCC taking gifts it shouldn't have, and the president talking two different games on Cuba at the same time. Let's start with the money. Acting Attorney…
Listen + read script →We'll start in the Middle East. The United States and Iran have confirmed that a new round of nuclear talks will begin Monday. President Trump said Gulf allies and Tehran both urged him to hold off on planned strikes,…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, the Independent News Drop. I'm Keli, with Hast. Heavy hour. We're leading with a sitting president's casual claim about running a country the United States just occupied. From our Ground News desk: in…
Listen + read script →We start with a 4-to-3 ruling out of Michigan's Supreme Court. The court cleared the state's attorney general to proceed with a probe into Eli Lilly's insulin pricing. The investigation began four years ago under AG…
Listen + read script →We're leading with what the president told Reuters about Iran—and it's a statement that needs to sit in the open before we move anywhere else. From our Ground News desk: In early March, Trump told Reuters he was…
Listen + read script →We'll start with the diplomatic story that is moving fastest today. President Trump said Saturday he is cancelling planned strikes on Iran, conditional on Tehran reaching a deal, and reaching one rapidly. The statement…
Listen + read script →We're leading with what a lawsuit forced into the open, and what the president did with it once it was public. From our Ground News desk: a federal judge in March halted above-ground construction at Mar-a-Lago, but…
Listen + read script →We start in Ukraine. At least nine people were killed and dozens more injured in Russian missile strikes on Kyiv overnight. The attacks hit residential areas of the capital. The on-the-record count is nine dead. What…
Listen + read script →We're leading with power and money this hour — a sitting president selling direct access to his official statements, and then we'll walk through what happens when the rule-writers and the people they regulate eat dinner…
Listen + read script →We'll start in Gaza. Israeli forces launched strikes across the territory on Friday, killing at least two Palestinians. This came hours after Hamas agreed to a draft peace deal that included a disarmament provision. The…
Listen + read script →Courts and misconduct first. A federal appeals court in the Fourth Circuit just handed down a ruling on prosecutor professional misconduct — we're talking about a case where a prosecutor withheld evidence and a…
Listen + read script →We begin in Europe, where a landmark trial is underway. A Syrian lawyer is prosecuting a former Assad-era official in what legal observers are calling one of the first serious accountability proceedings for crimes…
Listen + read script →We're leading with something the press decided wasn't real until it became law. July 2019. Trump stood in front of cameras and said: "I have Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president." The…
Listen + read script →We begin in Spain. The country has deployed military forces to Ceuta, its enclave on the northern coast of Africa, after thousands of migrants overwhelmed police barricades at the Morocco-Spain border crossing.…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. We're leading on a seven-year misquote that shaped a presidential campaign — then we'll move through White House pressure on a Senate confirmation and what federal science funding looks like under this…
Listen + read script →We start in southern Europe. A new report finds that climate change has roughly doubled the likelihood of large wildfires across the region since 1981. Researchers describe the trend as a major intensification, driven…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour ahead — we're leading with a moment from the wire that cuts straight to how the press corps covers power, then we're moving to the ground truth on what's happening in Poland and Ukraine right now. From our…
Listen + read script →We start in Nigeria. A woman named Safiya lost her husband and two children in a deadly raid. She is now displaced, and according to Al Jazeera, she has rebuilt a fragile livelihood through sewing. The outlet frames it…
Listen + read script →Heavy one today. From our Ground News desk: the Defense Department authorization bill moving through Congress right now contains language that would put U.S. and Israeli militaries under a single executive agent —…
Listen + read script →We start in Japan. A significant earthquake has left widespread destruction across affected areas. Casualty and damage figures are still being compiled, and the full scope of the disaster is not yet confirmed on the…
Listen + read script →Morning. We're leading with policy set by social media post, then the Middle East escalation, then the Texas flood response gap. Let's go. From our Ground News desk: On May twenty-ninth, the former president posted to…
Listen + read script →We begin in the Middle East. The White House held talks today between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. No press was admitted to the meeting. No readout was released during the session. The…
Listen + read script →m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. We're leading with a Cabinet meeting from May where the president was asked about gas prices and gave a direct answer about the war instead. Worth hearing the way it came out. From our…
Listen + read script →We start with Iran. New documentary footage shows Senator Lindsey Graham saying he almost cried tears of joy after persuading Donald Trump to strike Iran. Graham claims personal credit for that decision in excerpts from…
Listen + read script →m. central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Heavy morning. We're leading with the Oval Office and a question the president won't answer. Friday at the White House, New York Times reporter Shawn McCreesh asked President Trump…
Listen + read script →We're leading with a dispatch from our Ground News desk on how foreign policy gets made — and how the press frames it. Seven years back, in April of 2017, a president told the world on camera that photographs of a…
Listen + read script →Starting with a warning about institutional pressure inside a federal law enforcement agency. A former Acting Chief of Staff at ICE has gone on the record saying the agency's rush to hire officers and its focus on…
Listen + read script →m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with a story about what didn't happen, and what that silence tells us. From our Ground News desk. Back in May, the Department of Justice waived all pending…
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