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Federal courts and federal prison first — a ballistics expert never got into a cell to examine evidence that might have cleared a man now doing a hundred years. From our Ground News desk: May twentieth, Trump announced…
Listen + read script →We start in France, where student protests have escalated into arson. Students set fire to school buildings and clashed with police as demonstrations spread across the country. Al Jazeera is reporting the unrest but…
Listen + read script →We start with the White House's new AI chatbot, America.gov. When asked who pays for tariffs, the tool cited the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and stated clearly: a tariff is a tax on imported goods, the cost is paid…
Listen + read script →Morning. We're leading with a presser moment that didn't get the weight it should have. May twentieth, Trump at the podium. He's asked about Netanyahu holding off on Iran strikes. His answer: Netanyahu does whatever he…
Listen + read script →We have several duplicate feeds in today's pull, so we're collapsing those and moving through the distinct stories. Here is what's on the record. First, domestic politics. Donald Trump is conducting a series of…
Listen + read script →Heavy opening. Trump at a private equity summit, March of last year, told a room of sovereign wealth fund managers that Cuba is next for U.S. intervention — then asked the press to ignore the statement. Said it twice.…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that President Trump has ordered a third aircraft carrier strike group and an additional ten thousand troops to the Middle East, bringing the U.S.…
Listen + read script →Heavy one to start. The White House removed CNN from the press pool traveling with President Trump to Texas and Oklahoma today. CNN was scheduled in the rotation as of Sunday. Wednesday's guidance dropped them. No…
Listen + read script →The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for the execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee. The Court overturned a last-minute stay that had halted the procedure. If carried out, it would be Tennessee's first execution of…
Listen + read script →We're leading with a moment from March 2020 that every newsroom saw and nearly every newsroom buried. The Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, sat at a White House briefing and called COVID a live exercise. The President…
Listen + read script →We'll start with a story that has received relatively little Western airtime. Bangladesh is reporting at least 233 deaths from dengue fever in what health authorities are describing as a severe outbreak. The figures…
Listen + read script →We're leading with something from the Ground News desk that sits underneath a lot of what you're seeing right now. July twelfth, twenty nineteen. Trump in the Oval Office, on camera, said this: "Then I have an Article…
Listen + read script →We start in Washington. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Smith told senators he had found proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour on misquote mechanics and medicine access. Let's go. Seven years. That's how long newsrooms ran a Trump Charlottesville quote with the condemnation of neo-Nazis deleted. August 2017, Charlottesville. Trump…
Listen + read script →We start in Morocco. King Mohammed VI has appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as prime minister, making her the first woman to hold that office in the country's history. She is only the second woman to serve as prime…
Listen + read script →We're leading with what the President said about AI power, then the Senate floor fight over college sports, and a federal agency just gutted its own consumer database. Let's go. The dispatch at Inkwell: On Sunday,…
Listen + read script →We'll start in Washington. The Senate has passed the Protect College Sports Act. The bill would impose federal guardrails on college athlete eligibility, transfers, and name-image-likeness compensation. The NCAA is…
Listen + read script →We're leading with a senator who hasn't been seen in public for three months, and the term his office set for his absence expires today. Mitch McConnell. He fell at his Washington home on June 14th, spent time in rehab,…
Listen + read script →We start in Ukraine. Russian drone strikes hit civilian targets across Kyiv overnight, killing seven people and injuring dozens more. Ukraine's government condemned the attacks as deliberate targeting of civilians. The…
Listen + read script →Heavy morning. Let's start overseas with what Israel's government is actually saying versus what it said a week prior. From our Ground News desk: National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir rolled out a formal proposal…
Listen + read script →We'll start in the Middle East. Israel's national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir released a video this week in which he explicitly threatened to kill Hassan Salameh, a senior Hamas figure currently held in an Israeli…
Listen + read script →Heavy legal hour. Supreme Court, FCC, and the courts are running three major plays in twelve days — and none of them went to the merits. Walk us through it. Start here: on September fourth, the first day of the…
Listen + read script →We start with Iran. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC's Kristen Welker this morning that Iran has, quote, "no reason to come back to diplomacy" with the United States, and that the country is prepared for what he…
Listen + read script →Heavy morning. A federal court designed to work in the dark heard its first case in thirty years, and we have the record now that it's over. From our Ground News desk: the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, built in 1996,…
Listen + read script →We'll start with the storm. Powerful winds and heavy surf are battering the US Northeast today, grounding flights and knocking out power across the region. No confirmed fatalities reported at this hour, but disruptions…
Listen + read script →Heavy legal hour. The DOJ just filed its first appearance in the Trump tax case — and it's an appeal of a settlement the administration says is dead. From our Ground News desk: on Friday night, Acting Deputy Attorney…
Listen + read script →Heavy one to start. From our Ground News desk: Israel's government signed off on infrastructure work in Gaza in August—earthmoving, electricity, water, sewer contractors on site in a cleared area near Rafah. Eighteen…
Listen + read script →Heavy lead on the record today. Trump in a Cabinet meeting, asked about gas prices heading into the midterms. He said he doesn't care about the midterms. Said the war comes first. No sanctions, no money, no nothing.…
Listen + read script →We start in Ukraine. Ruslan Kravchenko, the country's chief prosecutor, has resigned amid a call centre corruption scandal. In his resignation letter, Kravchenko denied the allegations and said he did not want his…
Listen + read script →Heavy on power and money today. Let's start with what the president said—and what he said it after. Twenty-four hours after Trump told the press there'd be no escalation, he held another event. On Cuba, he said he'd be…
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