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Heavy hour. The president and a radio host spent sixty seconds on August twenty-eighth posting about an elections emergency order — one minute after each other — right as a federal judge lifted the nationwide block on…
Listen + read script →We'll start in Gaza. One year to the day after the US-brokered ceasefire was agreed, Israeli attacks killed more Palestinians in Gaza. Thousands marched across Europe on the anniversary to demand an end to the war —…
Listen + read script →Heavy morning. We're starting with power and silence — the FCC, a named anchor, and what a regulator chose not to do. From our Ground News desk. In late August, the former president posted that NBC's Kristen Welker had…
Listen + read script →Hurricane Isaias has made landfall in Florida. The National Hurricane Center classified the storm as life-threatening at the time of landfall. The storm is forecast to track northward and is expected to bring…
Listen + read script →Senate health and hard power first. Two very different stories on what transparency looks like when it matters. From our Ground News desk: Mitch McConnell hasn't voted since June 11th. That's the date — ninety days of…
Listen + read script →We'll start with the war. The United States is at war with Iran, and according to a new piece from The Intercept, no mass protest movement has taken shape in response — at least not in the forms historically associated…
Listen + read script →Heavy international lead this morning. Netanyahu on camera, August ninth, saying what he's already said a dozen times through back channels — and the fact that he had to say it twice tells you everything about how the…
Listen + read script →We start overseas. The United Nations Security Council has voted to extend the arms embargo on Darfur, but a broader U.S. proposal to expand sanctions to cover all of Sudan was blocked. Russia and China both vetoed that…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. A researcher dead in Siberia, the Kremlin locked down, and we're looking at what Moscow's actually protecting. Let's start there. From our Ground News desk: Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment over…
Listen + read script →A hurricane is bearing down on the US Gulf Coast. Hurricane Isaias is forecast to bring dangerous winds and up to ten inches of rain to Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi this weekend. The timing matters. Gulf Coast…
Listen + read script →We're leading with money and power — a Senate committee steered three hundred forty-five million dollars to a military contractor for trucks the Army didn't want, and then campaign donations to the committee members…
Listen + read script →We start with a domestic legal story. Democrats have filed suit against the Trump administration over a taxpayer-funded ad campaign. The lawsuit argues the ads violate federal prohibitions on government-funded…
Listen + read script →Heavy structural hour. The Pentagon just buried a merger clause in the defense bill, and we're tracking it from our Ground News desk. Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act — it's language that designates…
Listen + read script →We begin on this date three years on. On October 7, 2021 — three years after the Hamas attacks that killed approximately 1,200 Israelis — Al Jazeera reports that more than 74,000 people have been killed in Gaza since…
Listen + read script →Morning. We're leading with policy set by social media post — Trump's Iran ultimatum from May twenty-ninth, and what the coverage missed. From our Ground News desk: on May twenty-ninth, Trump posted to Truth Social. He…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. Sudan's military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has rejected negotiations with the Rapid Support Forces and vowed to retake all territory the RSF controls. This comes as fresh fighting killed…
Listen + read script →We're leading with something the Treasury Secretary said out loud at a White House briefing, and it landed as a joke. It wasn't. The Treasury has designs prepared in advance to put a living Donald Trump on a $250 bill —…
Listen + read script →We start in Tennessee. Last week, Christa Pike became the first person in American history to survive not one but two full doses of lethal injection drugs. Over roughly two hours, witnesses described her crying,…
Listen + read script →Morning. We're leading hard today — federal court, criminal justice, and a major reporting gap that shaped how the country sees reform. From our Ground News desk: in December 2018, Trump backed the First Step Act. It…
Listen + read script →We have duplicate entries in today's feed, so we are collapsing those now. Each story runs once. Starting in the United States. President Trump announced Monday that taxpayer money will no longer be used to fund…
Listen + read script →Heavy opening. May 2017 — Trump in the Oval Office, day after he fires the FBI director investigating Russian election interference. He tells Russian officials he isn't worried about interference because the US does the…
Listen + read script →We start with energy and water, because both are under pressure this week. President Trump posted on Truth Social this morning blaming Ukraine for rising gas prices in the United States. He cited Ukrainian strikes on…
Listen + read script →Heavy lead. We're opening with press-corps asymmetry — and then a prison that buried sex abuse allegations is about to reopen as an ICE detention facility. Start with the asymmetry, because it frames how newsrooms…
Listen + read script →We'll start in the Middle East. Iran's state media says Tehran is ready to defend itself against a possible U.S. military strike. Separately, Yemen's internationally recognized government has announced a major offensive…
Listen + read script →Heavy one on the ground. Ben-Gvir at the Temple Mount — National Security Minister of Israel, Sukkot morning, three years after October seventh. He said it plainly: we are the masters of the Temple Mount. We distributed…
Listen + read script →We have a note on sourcing before we start. Two of today's stories come from left-leaning outlets, one from a right-leaning outlet, and the remainder from center-leaning publications. We'll name the outlet each time. We…
Listen + read script →Trump's budget hides a trillion dollars in military spending across federal agencies so it doesn't look like one line item. The Intercept has the numbers. And then we're tracking what he told the UN versus what he said…
Listen + read script →We begin in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopian government forces say they have seized Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray region, after a week of intense fighting against Tigray fighters. That is the government's account.…
Listen + read script →Heavy legal hour. Two grand juries have now refused to indict Letitia James, and the President just called her corrupt on the record. The setup is this. In October 2025, the Department of Justice, under Trump's…
Listen + read script →We start with a federal court ruling out of Washington. Judge Tanya Chutkan of the D.C. District Court issued a temporary restraining order Thursday blocking the Department of Education from publishing the names of…
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