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From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Friday, June 12. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in the United States, where a federal judge in New Hampshire has again denied pseudonymity to a plaintiff suing…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Friday, June 12. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Texas, where the secretary of state has moved to take over voter registration in Val Verde County. The action is…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Thursday, June 11. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in the Middle East. Overnight, Israel launched a new wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. Videos shared by…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Thursday, June 11. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with the war between the United States and Iran, and what the record shows about it. The Intercept published a…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Thursday, June 11. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start overseas. The United States military struck a Palau-flagged oil tanker on Wednesday, killing three Indian sailors.…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Wednesday, June 10. I'm Keli, with Hast. We begin in the Middle East. Iran has announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz following US airstrikes. Iranian…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Wednesday, June 10. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with the US economy. Two separate outlets reported this morning that inflation has climbed to 4.2 percent, a new…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Wednesday, June 10. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with a child. Malika is four years old. She was seriously wounded in an Israeli strike in Lebanon that killed her…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Tuesday, June 9. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with the sharpest-moving story of the day. U.S. Central Command says its forces have launched what it is calling…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Tuesday, June 9. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with breaking news out of the Middle East. President Trump says Iran shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter. Two crew…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Tuesday, June 9. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with a World Cup access dispute that has two versions in circulation. Iran's football federation says its allocation…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Monday, June 8. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in the Middle East, where the most consequential thread of the day runs through several stories at once. Israel and…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Monday, June 8. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with Iran. BBC World is reporting that Iran launched a strike on Israel over the weekend. BBC Persian editor Amir…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Monday, June 8. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in the southern Philippines. A magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck overnight, killing at least nineteen people. The quake…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Sunday, June 7. I'm Keli, with Hast. 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…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Sunday, June 7. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in the Middle East. Israel struck Beirut's southern suburbs overnight, with multiple explosions reported. Israel says…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Sunday, June 7. I'm Keli, with Hast. We begin in the Middle East. One hundred days into what multiple outlets are calling a regime-change war on Iran, two competing…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Saturday, June 6. I'm Keli, with Hast. We begin today with the date itself. Eighty-one years ago this morning, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. At…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Saturday, June 6. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with the war on Iran. One hundred days in, and the public numbers are not moving in the White House's favor. Analysts…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Saturday, June 6. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with an accountability story out of the United States. NPR has tracked a pattern of Filipino sailors who say they…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Friday, June 5. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with a public health warning that is moving fast. Two separate outlets are reporting on the same CDC modeling, so let's…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Friday, June 5. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine exchanged 185 prisoners of war each yesterday, a significant swap that Russia says was…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Friday, June 5. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Texas. Christian Menefee, 38, has defeated incumbent U.S. Representative Al Green, 78, in a Democratic primary for a…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Thursday, June 4. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Washington. The SAVE America Act, a sweeping Republican election overhaul that President Trump publicly named his…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Thursday, June 4. I'm Keli, with Hast. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously this week that Hikma Pharmaceuticals did not infringe patents held by Amarin. The case…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Thursday, June 4. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Washington. The House voted this week to invoke the War Powers Act and direct President Trump to end US military…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Wednesday, June 3. I'm Keli, with Hast. Senate Republicans have stripped roughly one billion dollars earmarked for a new White House ballroom from the reconciliation…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Wednesday, June 3. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in the Middle East, where the diplomatic and military tracks are running in opposite directions simultaneously. In…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Tuesday, June 2. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Iran. Al Jazeera is reporting that attacks on desalination plants and other water infrastructure, attributed to the…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Tuesday, June 2. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Ukraine. Russian forces launched one of their largest combined missile and drone assaults in months overnight,…
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