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14:59

Billions of dollars are going to ICE. What will it do...

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2025/08/11

Caitlin Dickerson with the Atlantic reports on how Congress has allocated an unprecedented sum of money to immigration enforcement, and how they might spend it. President Putin is set to visit the U.S. for the first time in a decade to discuss Ukraine with President Trump. But critics are worried the country will be carved up without its leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy present. Nurses are being driven from their profession by violence in the emergency room, as Kyra Breslin reports for Women’s

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14:06

Israel is planning a major escalation of the war in...

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2025/08/08

Benjamin Netanyahu wants to take control of all of Gaza. Alexander Cornwell with Reuters unpacks what that means. The Trump administration is pulling support for harm-reduction policies for addiction. David Ovalle with the Washington Post describes why. Florida has taken the lead in advancing Trump’s immigration agenda. Jasmine Garsd spoke to In Conversation about what that looks like on the ground. Plus, universities ordered to hand over admissions data on race, why the U.S. is souring on

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15:10

Trump’s tariffs are raising billions. Where is that...

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2025/08/07

Tariffs for nearly 70 countries are implemented today. CNN’s Elisabeth Buchwald explains where all the money is going.Republicans are under pressure to sell the tax-and-spending bill during summer recess. But crowds at town halls aren’t making it easy, as Semafor’s Eleanor Mueller tells us. U.S. citizens are getting caught up in the immigration crackdown. Sam Levin from The Guardian has been following some disturbing cases. Plus, the latest following a shooting at Georgia’s Fort Stewart, new

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14:52

The hidden culprit behind your rising electricity bills

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2025/08/06

More universities are beginning to engage with the Trump administration on settlements and other agreements. Liam Knox of Bloomberg News joins to discuss how the White House’s pressure campaign is building.The data centers used to power AI are using up a lot of electricity. Peter Whoriskey at the Washington Post explains what that means for your bills. Journalists in California have unveiled a massive database documenting police use of force and misconduct, using previously unreleased

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14:11

How Trump’s Texas power grab could change voting...

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2025/08/05

The Texas governor is in a political showdown with Democrats. Lawmakers have fled the state to derail a redistricting vote that would could hand the GOP more seats for the midterms.McKenzie Funk from ProPublica talks about how ICE agents have turned to smashing through car windows to make arrests. The small African nation of Lesotho was hit with a significant tariff threat earlier this year. The Wall Street Journal’s Alexandra Wexler reports on the economic impact on the country. Plus,

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14:54

How Trump firing a data chief threatens jobs-stats...

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2025/08/04

Trump fired a key official after she delivered some bad news about jobs numbers. Courtenay Brown with Axios explains what that means for the credibility of government statistics, and unpacks what we learned about the U.S. economy from last week’s flurry of news. As Trump pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine, many thousands of children taken from the country to Russia are still missing. Simon Shuster, a senior correspondent at Time, joins to discuss his reporting. It’s been one month

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13:52

How Trump is using tariffs to help a political ally

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2025/08/01

Trump unveiled a new set of tariffs across the globe as his deadline arrived. Manuela Andreoni from Reuters explains why he hopes higher duties on Brazil and sanctions against a judge will derail the country’s trial against former President Jair Bolsonaro. One of Trump’s former personal lawyers was narrowly confirmed by Senate Republicans to a lifetime position as a federal appeals judge. Washington Post reporter Perry Stein explains why Emil Bove’s confirmation was so

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14:09

Why we don’t actually know much about Trump’s trade...

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2025/07/31

As President Trump touts trade deals ahead his Friday tariff deadline, Politico’s Daniel Desrochers reports that a lot of the details remain murky.Washington Post reporter Liz Goodwin explains how an unlikely alliance formed to fix America’s housing crisisIsrael’s blockade on aid to Gaza has created famine conditions, according to a new report. NPR spoke with doctors about the long-term health implications of starvation.Plus, the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady amid historic dissent among

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12:38

Tsunami waves reach U.S. after Russian earthquake....

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2025/07/30

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Russia’s east coast, setting off tsunami warnings in the U.S., Japan, and elsewhere. Reuters has the latest.For years, the EPA has regulated greenhouse-gas emissions. Bloomberg News’s Ari Natter explains why the agency is now trying to change that — and what the consequences could be. Hearings on January’s deadly airline collision near D.C. are getting underway, the Washington Post reports. One of the issues is staffing:

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14:22

Inside the IRS’s plans to share highly confidential...

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2025/07/29

According to a ProPublica report, the IRS is building a system that would share taxpayer data with ICE. Investigative reporter William Turton explains his findings. This week we’ll get a slew of new economic data that could indicate some of the impact of Trump’s tariff strategy. Bloomberg News’s Shawn Donnan joins to discuss what to watch and how the global economy has already changed. The Washington Post uncovered allegations of forced labor in the Brazilian Amazon some decades

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13:56

What millions of student-loan borrowers need to know...

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2025/07/28

Photos of emaciated, starving Palestinians have drawn international condemnation of Israel’s blockade of aid to Gaza. NBC reports. Over the weekend, Israel said it would begin allowing more supplies into the enclave. The Washington Post has the details. Cory Turner with NPR explains what SAVE-plan borrowers need to know about their other repayment options as interest starts accruing on their loans this week. Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their

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15:13

What the numbers reveal about Trump’s...

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2025/07/25

The Guardian looks at how Trump’s goal to deport 1 million people in his first year in office stands, six months into his term. The paper’s Will Craft has the details.There has been n a spike in executions in the U.S. After being a witness to some and getting to know death-row inmates, The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig speaks to In Conversation, and argues that the death penalty should be abolished. Matthew Dalton with the Wall Street Journal describes how extreme heat is causing

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14:49

Three new developments in the Epstein saga to know about

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2025/07/24

Trump was briefed in May that his name was among many cited in the files relating to the Jeffrey Epstein case, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, a House committee subpoenaed Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell. NBC News has the latest.Texas Republicans want to redraw the electoral maps in ways that could deliver more wins at next year’s midterms. Eleanor Klibanoff from the Texas Tribune explains. A Los Angeles hospital becomes the latest hospital to

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14:10

The unspoken threat in Trump’s Wall Street Journal...

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2025/07/23

Trump sued the Wall Street Journal over its report that he wrote a birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein. It’s an unprecedented move for a sitting president, and CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter explains why it’s a warning to all media outlets. Israel expanded its offensive into central Gaza as the malnutrition crisis gets worse. NBC News documents the deteriorating humanitarian situation.The Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Tangel explains what early reports reveal about the Air India plane

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14:16

They wrote Project 2025. Now they’re dictating some...

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2025/07/22

Six months in, how have the Trump administration’s actions aligned with Project 2025’s plan? The Atlantic’s David Graham joins the show to assess.Lawyers representing Harvard University and the Trump administration were in court yesterday over the White House’s stripping of billions of dollars in grants. MassLive reports. Over a month ago, members of the National Guard were deployed to Los Angeles amid protests. Jenny Jarvie, national reporter for the L.A. Times, says many are now

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13:54

Six months in, how do Americans grade Trump?

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2025/07/21

Six months into Trump’s second term in office, a CNN poll finds that a majority of Americans disapprove of the administration’s deportation program. Philip Bump with the Washington Post examines the history of Trump’s support among his base. The recently passed GOP tax-and-spending bill makes steep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP spending. Sarah Wire of USA Today reports on how states are concerned about making up the shortfall. The same bill created a new type of investment account for

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15:19

Why some of Trump’s big Supreme Court wins remain a...

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2025/07/18

The House approved Trump’s plans to claw back $8 billion in approved funding for foreign aid. Experts told NPR the administration has provided little to no evidence to justify the cited claims of waste, fraud, and abuse.The Supreme Court is delivering wins for Trump’s agenda while often providing no explanation for its decisions. Bloomberg’s Lydia Wheeler explores why. The administration is trying to speed up deportations by making people they detain ineligible for bond hearings

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13:05

From Elmo to emergency alerts: The impact of public...

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2025/07/17

The Senate just passed a bill that would cut more than $1.1 billion in previously allocated federal funds for public media. The Wall Street Journal reports. The president of PBS tells the Washington Post the move would result in an existential crisis for member stations that depend on federal dollars.Trump has been going back and forth on his desire to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Neil Irwin from Axios discusses whether the president has the power to do so, and why a recent Fed building renovation

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14:04

Why Congress might claw back money it already approved

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2025/07/16

The Senate voted to advance legislation that would claw back over $9 billion dollars for foreign aid and public media that both chambers of Congress, and President Trump himself had previously approved.Reuters’s Bo Erickson explains how it's part of a broader effort by the administration to assert more authority over the federal budget. The executive director of Camp Mystic, the all-girls camp in Texas, received a severe flood warning on his phone in the early-morning hours of July 4. According to

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15:34

Bugs, heat, broken toilets: life inside “Alligator...

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2025/07/15

New reporting from the Miami Herald reveals that a significant portion of detainees held at an immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades do not have criminal charges. Reporter Ana Ceballos joins to discuss that story and another highlighting conditions inside.Some Trump supporters inside and outside of the White House are disappointed with how the administration handled the Jeffrey Epstein case. The Washington Post’s Natalie Allison reports on how the broader MAGA movement is

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