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We start with the G7. Leaders meeting in Canada this week are preoccupied with the U.S.-Iran agreement, according to reporting from NPR. The deal, brokered in conjunction with Israel after military strikes on Iran, has…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that Israel has transferred authority over Hebron to the military, meaning the army now holds administrative control over the city. That…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. Israel has seized administrative control of a mosque in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, taking it from Palestinian authorities. Hebron's mayor says the move is unilateral, that it…
Listen + read script →We start with the G7 summit in France. Leaders gathered Tuesday for a lunch session that French President Emmanuel Macron said would center on reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Iran and Ukraine are both listed as high…
Listen + read script →Start with the diplomatic headline. The United States and Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding, according to President Trump, executed electronically. Iranian vessels are now moving through the Strait of…
Listen + read script →We start with the Iran deal. President Trump said this weekend that a US-Iran agreement is, in his words, all signed. No text has been publicly released. No joint statement has been issued by both governments. That gap…
Listen + read script →We start with the biggest structural story of the day. The United States and Iran have announced a deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. NPR reports the agreement is being called a major breakthrough,…
Listen + read script →We start with the biggest story of the weekend. The United States and Iran have announced a ceasefire agreement. President Trump confirmed it, Tehran confirmed it, and a memorandum is set to be signed this Friday. The…
Listen + read script →We start with the G7. World leaders are gathering in France this week for what was originally billed as a broad economic and security summit. It is now being pulled almost entirely toward one subject: the U.S.-led war…
Listen + read script →We start with a live diplomatic question. The United States says a deal to halt hostilities with Iran could be signed as early as today. Tehran is disputing that timeline, saying no signing is imminent. The gap between…
Listen + read script →We start with the biggest moving story of the day. The United States and Iran appear close to signing the first stage of a peace deal. President Trump said this morning a deal would be signed today. Tehran's position is…
Listen + read script →The headline this morning: Donald Trump says a deal between the United States and Iran will be signed on Sunday. Both Al Jazeera and the BBC are reporting his comments. The BBC adds one detail Trump did not: before he…
Listen + read script →We'll start with the media industry. The Justice Department has closed its antitrust review of the proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. The deal is valued at roughly 110 billion dollars. DOJ…
Listen + read script →We start in the United States, where a federal judge in New Hampshire has again denied pseudonymity to a plaintiff suing Dartmouth College. Judge Steven McAuliffe, in Doe v. Trustees of Dartmouth College, ruled for the…
Listen + read script →We start in Texas, where the secretary of state has moved to take over voter registration in Val Verde County. The action is authorized under a law that was originally written with Harris County in mind. State officials…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. Overnight, Israel launched a new wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. Videos shared by Palestinian activists show large-scale strikes hitting multiple locations. No Israeli government…
Listen + read script →We start with the war between the United States and Iran, and what the record shows about it. The Intercept published a point-by-point accounting of the stated objectives the Trump administration set out before and…
Listen + read script →We start overseas. The United States military struck a Palau-flagged oil tanker on Wednesday, killing three Indian sailors. The Pentagon said the vessel did not comply with directions. That is the totality of what is on…
Listen + read script →We begin in the Middle East. Iran has announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz following US airstrikes. Iranian officials confirmed the closure, and Iran says it struck ships in the strait in a follow-on action. US…
Listen + read script →We start with the US economy. Two separate outlets reported this morning that inflation has climbed to 4.2 percent, a new three-year high. Energy prices are a significant driver. US markets fell on the data, with…
Listen + read script →We start with a child. Malika is four years old. She was seriously wounded in an Israeli strike in Lebanon that killed her mother. Al Jazeera has been following her recovery. The story is filed under recovery, and in…
Listen + read script →We start with the sharpest-moving story of the day. U.S. Central Command says its forces have launched what it is calling self-defense strikes against Iran. The announcement follows the downing of a U.S. helicopter.…
Listen + read script →We start with breaking news out of the Middle East. President Trump says Iran shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter. Two crew members were rescued by an American sea drone. Trump has vowed to respond. The on-the-record…
Listen + read script →We start with a World Cup access dispute that has two versions in circulation. Iran's football federation says its allocation of fan tickets for the group stage has been revoked. A separate report from Al Jazeera…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East, where the most consequential thread of the day runs through several stories at once. Israel and Iran have halted direct fighting, confirmed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That…
Listen + read script →We start with Iran. BBC World is reporting that Iran launched a strike on Israel over the weekend. BBC Persian editor Amir Azimi's read is that the regime's willingness to risk disrupting ongoing peace talks signals its…
Listen + read script →We start in the southern Philippines. A magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck overnight, killing at least nineteen people. The quake triggered small tsunami waves that reached the Philippines, Indonesia, and Japan. This comes…
Listen + read script →We start with the sharpest developing story of the morning. Iran says it has begun what it is calling a full week of strikes on Israel, the first since an April ceasefire. Oil prices moved higher on the news. The…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. Israel struck Beirut's southern suburbs overnight, with multiple explosions reported. Israel says the targets were Hezbollah positions. The structural point here is that strikes on Beirut's…
Listen + read script →We begin in the Middle East. One hundred days into what multiple outlets are calling a regime-change war on Iran, two competing readings of the same facts are in circulation. Al Jazeera reports that Tehran views its…
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