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We start in East Africa. Kenyan health authorities have confirmed an eighth case of Ebola as a regional outbreak continues to widen. Officials say the latest patient was most likely exposed through contact with Kenya's…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. Let's start with the records the families have been asking for since 2001. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of September eleventh, Terry Strada stood at ground zero in front of every living former president…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We're leading with the war zones, then moving to diplomacy, domestic policy, diaspora politics, and closing on a death in sport that stopped a tournament in its tracks. First, Sudan. Al…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We're starting in the Strait of Hormuz, moving through Yemen, the West Bank, France, and then two domestic political stories out of Washington. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says…
Listen + read script →Heavy one out of the gate. Federal judge Ana Reyes stopped a Trump administration team cold in open court Monday over a D.C. golf course project. The president wants to turn a public course into a championship-level…
Listen + read script →We start in Gaza. Israeli drone strikes killed six Palestinians across the territory on Saturday, according to reporting by Al Jazeera. The attacks hit several areas despite what has been described as an active…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We start in Sudan, move through the West Bank, the Philippines, Texas, a diamond in France, and we close with cricket. Here is the news. Sudan's military says it killed dozens of fighters from…
Listen + read script →We start in the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump claimed Friday that a US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships from crossing the strait, a chokepoint through which roughly a fifth of the world's oil supply…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. We start with the structure underneath the pandemic record. From our Ground News desk: between 2020 and 2024, the NIH and NIAID held co-inventorship patents on the mRNA vaccine platform they were…
Listen + read script →We start at the White House. President Trump cast doubt Friday on the future of his press secretary, Katie Zacharia, whose first official day in the role was Monday. According to NPR, Trump reportedly fired Zacharia…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We'll start with the raid on a sitting member of Congress, move through Gaza's winter crisis, India's voter rolls, a new China-North Korea infrastructure project, a ProPublica investigation…
Listen + read script →We're leading with the ground desk on something the mainstream press walked past entirely. A power play that happened in plain sight, then a closed-door meeting with no readout. Let's go. From our Ground News desk: on…
Listen + read script →Six stories today. We're going to move through them in an order that connects. Let's get into it. First: the Ukraine war and what is — and isn't — moving on the diplomatic front. According to Reason, President Trump…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We'll start in the Black Sea, move to domestic politics, and end with an argument about the future of the American right. A cargo ship caught fire in Romanian territorial waters in the Black…
Listen + read script →with the mechanics underneath an election that's ten days out. Trump told voters to cast mail ballots — then said in the same breath that mail voting is being used to cheat them. No contradiction in his mind. Both…
Listen + read script →We start with a federal court ruling. U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly — a Trump appointee — has granted a preliminary injunction to CNN, MSNBC, and Politico, finding that the Trump administration likely violated…
Listen + read script →We begin in Texas, where voting rights groups have filed suit against the state for failing to process more than 500,000 voter registration applications submitted through the Department of Public Safety. The Texas…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We'll move from international accountability and political instability, through a US deportation deal, a domestic scandal, a major bank penalty, and a livestock crisis abroad. Let's get into…
Listen + read script →We're starting with a seven-year-old memo that never saw daylight — classified until a leak, then buried again when it finally surfaced. May 2017. Trump in the Oval Office with the Russian state photographer, no…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We'll start with a developing diplomatic vacancy, move through two immigration and housing policy items, then cover a campus assault story, and close with two connected dispatches from English…
Listen + read script →We have six stories today. We'll start in Texas, move to Ohio, then to Israeli detention, then to a federal benefits failure, back to Texas for a policy win, and close on a fatal accident at a Georgia amusement park.…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. For the third consecutive day, Yemen's Houthi movement has fired a ballistic missile toward Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. Saudi air defenses say they intercepted the missile. The Houthis,…
Listen + read script →The FCC just filed a brief that reads like a government agency arguing its own power doesn't exist. We're leading with it. On September third, the Federal Communications Commission asked a federal judge to dismiss…
Listen + read script →We start in France. French police detained a 14-year-old boy Monday after he opened fire on staff at the Joseph Lakanal middle school in Aubagne, a town roughly 15 kilometers east of Marseille. The boy concealed a…
Listen + read script →We're leading on equity stakes held in the President's name — no budget line, no consolidated ledger, and a portfolio worth roughly $26.7 billion spread across Commerce, Defense, Energy, and the Development Finance…
Listen + read script →We have duplicate feeds in today's stack — Stories 3 and 6 are the same Nepal item, Stories 4 and 7 are the same Burnham item, and Stories 8 and 10 are the same Iran-Saudi item. We're running each once. Starting in the…
Listen + read script →The Attorney General under oath, declaring the same fund dead four different ways in one week. Let's start there. From our Ground News desk: back in May, Trump settled his suit against the IRS for 1.8 billion dollars.…
Listen + read script →We begin in the Middle East. Israeli attacks on Gaza have sent Palestinians fleeing in panic, according to reporting out of Jerusalem. Al Jazeera describes scenes of mass displacement as strikes continue across the…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. We're leading with Gaza infrastructure — the facts Israel's government is now denying it approved. From our Ground News desk: In August, after July's green-light for earthmoving, water, and sewer work in…
Listen + read script →We start in Saudi Arabia. Houthi fighters struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia has confirmed at least twelve people were killed and more than three hundred injured in the attack. Emergency…
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