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We begin today with the date itself. Eighty-one years ago this morning, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. At the National World War II Memorial in Washington, historian Alex Kershaw marked the anniversary…
Listen + read script →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 cited in Al Jazeera say the war's unpopularity is already being factored into Republican…
Listen + read script →We start with an accountability story out of the United States. NPR has tracked a pattern of Filipino sailors who say they were falsely accused of possessing child sexual exploitation material and deported. According to…
Listen + read script →We start with a public health warning that is moving fast. Two separate outlets are reporting on the same CDC modeling, so let's put it together. The CDC projects that the current Ebola outbreak in Central Africa could…
Listen + read script →We start in Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine exchanged 185 prisoners of war each yesterday, a significant swap that Russia says was brokered by the United Arab Emirates. That is a concrete, on-the-record development. And it…
Listen + read script →We start in Texas. Christian Menefee, 38, has defeated incumbent U.S. Representative Al Green, 78, in a Democratic primary for a redrawn Harris County congressional district. Republicans had combined portions of both…
Listen + read script →We start in Washington. The SAVE America Act, a sweeping Republican election overhaul that President Trump publicly named his congressional allies' top priority, has failed in the Senate. The bill's collapse is the…
Listen + read script →The Supreme Court ruled unanimously this week that Hikma Pharmaceuticals did not infringe patents held by Amarin. The case turned on what's called skinny labeling, a practice that allows generic drugmakers to go to…
Listen + read script →We start in Washington. The House voted this week to invoke the War Powers Act and direct President Trump to end US military operations against Iran. Four Republicans crossed the aisle to join Democrats. The resolution…
Listen + read script →Senate Republicans have stripped roughly one billion dollars earmarked for a new White House ballroom from the reconciliation package. The broader bill, which funds immigration enforcement agencies, has stalled…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East, where the diplomatic and military tracks are running in opposite directions simultaneously. In Lebanon, Israeli forces have seized Beaufort Castle, a medieval hilltop fortress in the south…
Listen + read script →We start in Iran. Al Jazeera is reporting that attacks on desalination plants and other water infrastructure, attributed to the United States and Israel, have compounded an already severe water crisis inside the…
Listen + read script →We start in Ukraine. Russian forces launched one of their largest combined missile and drone assaults in months overnight, striking Kyiv and other cities. Ukrainian officials confirmed civilian deaths across multiple…
Listen + read script →m. central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with a call between Trump and Netanyahu that's being read two completely different ways — and there's a reason for that. From our Ground News desk: on the…
Listen + read script →m. central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good morning. We're leading with a defense-bill story that moved quietly last week — language that's going to matter for how the U.S. and Israel coordinate from here on. From our Ground…
Listen + read script →m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with what a federal judge just made public, and how one disclosure got reframed as a tour. From our Ground News desk. In late March, a preservation lawsuit…
Listen + read script →m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Morning. We're leading with a story from our Ground News desk — California, November 2020, and what the press saw versus what it didn't see. Governor Newsom went to a dinner indoors with…
Listen + read script →m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with Cuba policy and the gap between what's been said in private and what's being said now on the record. Eight weeks ago, at a private equity summit, the…
Listen + read script →m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good morning. We're leading with a Persian Gulf story that shows how two governments can claim victory on the same night while describing opposite realities. Last week, the Trump…
Listen + read script →m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with a disclosure story out of Washington — one that shows how lawsuits can reshape what gets said in public. From our Ground News desk: a federal…
Listen + read script →m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good morning. We're leading with a story about what happens when major legislation passes but the narrative doesn't fit. Stay with us. From our Ground News desk: in December 2018, the…
Listen + read script →m. central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with what happens when a statement is a joke and an announcement at the same time. From our Ground News desk: earlier this week, the former president spoke…
Listen + read script →m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good morning. We're leading on tax returns and a immunity story that got buried under transparency talk. From our Ground News desk: on May twentieth, the Department of Justice waived all…
Listen + read script →m. central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with something from our Ground News desk — a moment in 2020 that shows how newsroom priorities can bury a consequential admission. Right. In June of that…
Listen + read script →m. central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Morning. We're leading with a structural story — how a legal requirement, a patent portfolio, and fragmented reporting converged during the pandemic. From our Ground News desk: during…
Listen + read script →m. central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with Cuba policy today — there's a gap between what the president said in private and what he's saying now. Eight weeks ago, at a private equity summit, the…
Listen + read script →m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good morning. We're leading with what happened at a private equity summit this week — a statement that was structured like a joke, but wasn't. At an investment conference, the former…
Listen + read script →m. Central. I'm Keli, and Hast is with me. Heavy one leading today. The dispatch at Inkwell comes from Ground News on remarks the president made to Reuters about Iran. He told the outlet he has to be personally involved…
Listen + read script →m. central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Morning. We're tracking escalation in the Middle East and some state-level ballot dynamics. Let's start with what the press missed seven years ago — it's still relevant. From our Ground…
Listen + read script →m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with something from our Ground News desk — a moment from early pandemic that didn't get the coverage it deserved. March twentieth, twenty-twenty. Secretary…
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