- On today's episode: While a positive jobs report was expected, the nation's economic outlook remained uncertain due to looming tariffs; concerns over the future of NATO; the future of Ukraine in the European Union; a SpaceX rocket explodes after launch; Pope Francis continues to recover.
- Judge orders Trump administration to pay nearly $2 billion in USAID and State Dept. debts.
- Federal judge reinstates labor board member fired by President Donald Trump.
- Second federal judge extends block preventing the Trump administration from freezing funding.
- President Donald Trump says he doesn't want to see a lot of good people cut from the federal government.
- Trump targets security clearances of law firm entangled in 2016 Russia investigation.
- Trump delays tariffs on most goods from Mexico for a month.
- Trump envoy says Ukrainians 'brought it on themselves' after US pauses aid and intelligence sharing.
- The House censures Democratic Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump's joint address to Congress.
- Private lunar lander touches down on the moon, but its condition is unknown.
- Car being pulled from an Oregon river might have belonged to a family that vanished in 1958.
- The US is killing someone by firing squad for the 1st time in 15 years. Here's a look at the history.
- Wall Street tumbles as tariff whiplash and falling AI stocks drag Nasdaq 10% below its record.
- The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits falls as labor market remains sturdy.
- Mortgage rates have declined but could stay at a level that makes it tough to afford a home.
- A Big Apple versus Hollywood clash on the hardwood, a flurry of trades ahead of the NHL’ trade deadline, the reigning AL Rookie of the Year in baseball is set to miss time, a quarterback’s deal is reworked, more transactions around the NFL and a solid start at Bay Hill.
- Gil sidelined for at least 3 months, Stanton gets more elbow injections, LeMahieu out a few weeks.
- Browns restructure Watson's contract to get under the salary cap, AP source says.
- Women's tennis players now are eligible for paid maternity leave funded by Saudi Arabia's PIF.
- Unexploded WWII bomb in Paris halts Eurostar travel to London and trains to northern France.
- A charity kitchen brings hope to displaced Palestinians in the West Bank during Ramadan.
—The Associated Press
About this program
Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate.
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