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Heavy start. May 2017. The Oval Office. Trump told Russia he wasn't worried about election interference because the US does the same in other countries. Classified memo. American press locked out. Russian state…
Listen + read script →We start with a domestic governance story. President Trump posted on Truth Social in July that Washington D.C. went from, quote, high crime to no crime, and credited his deployment of the National Guard. A Reuters…
Listen + read script →Hard morning ahead. Two graduate students at Cornell University are being pressured by the Ivy League institution itself — their funding threatened unless they return to the United States, where the Trump administration…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. The 60-day ceasefire between the United States and Iran expired Monday with no diplomatic or military resolution in place. President Trump this week threatened what he called tremendous…
Listen + read script →Heavy diplomatic hour. We're starting overseas with a leak that puts two allied leaders on the record saying completely different things. From our Ground News desk — in early June, Trump and Netanyahu had a call. Trump…
Listen + read script →We start in Brazil. A bus crash in Parana state has killed at least 23 people and injured five. The vehicle was transporting patients to hospitals near Curitiba when the accident occurred. The detail worth noting is…
Listen + read script →Heavy foreign policy hour ahead — a buried defense bill clause, warning signs about state behavior, and a military supply line nobody's watching closely enough. Let's start with our Ground News desk on a piece of the…
Listen + read script →We start with a personnel story out of the intelligence community. Julia Curlee, a former CIA officer with twenty years of service, spoke on CNN Tuesday about her firing under the Trump administration. Curlee, who…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. Let's start with the Hormuz move. On May twenty-ninth, Trump posted to Truth Social what amounts to a blockade ultimatum. Iran must agree never to build a nuclear weapon. The Hormuz Strait must open…
Listen + read script →We're leading with currency and power — the Treasury Secretary went on the record about a living president on U.S. currency, and it matters more than the briefing room treated it. From our Ground News desk: at a White…
Listen + read script →We start overseas. Russia has issued a formal warning to the United Kingdom over its supply of drones to Ukraine. The British Ministry of Defence responded that the UK stands, quote, shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine.…
Listen + read script →Heavy start. Trump threatened to blow up Oman — a two-hundred-year U.S. ally — over the Strait of Hormuz. Clip from late May just resurfaced. He said, Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we'll have to blow…
Listen + read script →The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the deadliest in the country's history. A senior UN official has called for speed, scale, and solidarity, warning the virus is getting further ahead of…
Listen + read script →Heavy lead. Trump said on the record he'll be the one to do Cuba — and would be happy to do it. That's the framing we're starting with. From our Ground News desk: Twenty-four hours before that statement, the president…
Listen + read script →We'll start in the occupied West Bank. Israeli troops have raided the village of Qusra, south of Nablus. Separately, residents of Qusra say Israeli settlers and soldiers have besieged families in the area for eight…
Listen + read script →Russia's launched fresh strikes across Ukraine. At least five dead, civilian infrastructure hit — that's the lead from the BBC. Zelensky says Moscow is targeting civilian sites. Moscow says it hit a warehouse. Both…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour. We're starting with competing claims about a deal that's supposed to be done — and markets that moved on words instead of facts. From our Ground News desk: last night, Trump posted on Truth Social that an…
Listen + read script →Ground News first — then we'll track the earthquake and what's moving overseas. From our Ground News desk: Trump skipped his son's wedding the same weekend he was saying peace with Iran was largely negotiated. He told…
Listen + read script →A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck near Flores Island in Indonesia today. Authorities are urging coastal residents to move inland or to higher ground. At least two people have been killed. Tsunami warnings were issued in…
Listen + read script →Heavy legal week. DOJ and immunity first. May twentieth, this year. The Department of Justice waived all pending IRS claims against Trump — forever — on pre-settlement filings. Same day, same gaggle: Trump said he may…
Listen + read script →Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty Friday in Manhattan federal court to the December 2024 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The plea came during an emergency hearing. Mangione still faces a separate state…
Listen + read script →Heavy morning. Japan first — eight dead in what the BBC is calling unprecedented rainfall. The storm cut power to more than twenty thousand households, stranded seven thousand people at Tokyo's Narita airport. That's…
Listen + read script →Starting in the West Bank. The UN human rights office and the Palestinian Foreign Ministry have both condemned what they're calling a days-long siege of homes in the village of Qusra by Israeli settlers. The UN used the…
Listen + read script →We'll start in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ebola outbreak there has now spread to a sixth province. Government figures put the death toll at 2,128 out of roughly 4,566 recorded cases. The structural fact here…
Listen + read script →Heavy morning. We're leading with what a sitting president said about a country under American occupation, then Texas money and power, then the earthquake still moving in Colombia. From our Ground News desk: Trump said…
Listen + read script →We'll start in the sky. Millions of people across Europe stepped outside this evening to watch a solar eclipse, with the path of totality cutting through Greenland, Iceland, and Spain. The images coming out of the event…
Listen + read script →Heavy newsroom. Let's start with the president and Iran. From our Ground News desk: Trump told Reuters this week he is personally selecting Iran's next supreme leader. He said Khamenei's son is unacceptable to him. He…
Listen + read script →We'll start with the White House. President Trump signed an executive order Monday calling for a reduction in the number of vaccinations recommended for American children, and mandating a shift away from combination…
Listen + read script →We're leading with federal money and a factory that never made a thing. ProPublica reports the Pentagon and General Dynamics built a $533 million artillery plant that produced zero rounds. Not a shortage. Not a delay.…
Listen + read script →We start in Colombia. The death toll from Monday's 7.4 magnitude earthquake continues to climb. Hundreds of rescue workers are deployed across the hardest-hit cities trying to reach people still trapped under rubble.…
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