On today's episode:

• Congress will debate an Iran conflict that is well underway.
• US, Israel pound Iran as Trump signals willingness to talk to new leadership after Khamenei's death
• Iran vows revenge after the killing of its top leader and trades strikes with Israel in widening war
• Israel is dealing the aftermath of an Iranian strike.
• War widens to include attacks on key oil plants in the Middle East
• Neil Sedaka, the singer-songwriter behind dozens of hits of the 1960s and '70s, dies at age 86
• US, Israel pound Iran as Trump signals willingness to talk to new leadership after Khamenei's death.
• Iran vows revenge after the killing of its top leader and trades strikes with Israel in widening war.
• War widens to include attacks on key oil plants in the Middle East.
• White House official Iran suggests it's open to talks and Trump says he's 'eventually' willing.
• Stranded travelers scramble to make new connections as war shuts much of Middle East to air travel.
• Israeli strikes rock Tehran as Iran's counterattacks widen after the killing of its supreme leader.
• World leaders react cautiously to US and Israeli strikes on Iran as fears grow of a wider war.
• European leaders call for resumption of US-Iran negotiations.
• 9 killed as protesters try to storm US Consulate in Pakistan over killing of Iran's supreme leader.
• Attack on Iran disrupts flights across the Middle East and beyond.
• US and Israel launch a major attack on Iran and Trump urges Iranians to 'take over your government'.
• War widens to include Iranian-backed militias as Israeli and American planes pound Iran.
• QatarEnergy says it will stop production of LNG as the Mideast war rages.
• Pakistan deploys troops, imposes 3-day curfew after deadly protests over US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
• Video shows nearly blind refugee being released by Border Patrol, 5 days before his death.
• Renee Good's parents remember her love and laughter in interview with AP.
• Attorney general announces indictments against 30 more people who protested at a Minnesota church.
• Pentagon to cut ties with Columbia, Yale, Brown and others Hegseth accuses of 'wokeness'.
• Trump raises the possibility of a ‘friendly takeover of Cuba’ coming out of talks with Havana.
• A nearly blind refugee is found dead after Border Patrol agents drop him at Buffalo doughnut shop.
• Actor Shia LaBeouf arrested again on battery charge in New Orleans.
• Texas bar shooting leaves 3 dead and 14 wounded as FBI investigates terrorism possibility.
• US stocks sink and oil prices rise as worries about AI, inflation and possible war hit Wall Street.
• A historic third straight win for a NASCAR driver, the NBA’s longest winning streak is snapped, a perfect regular season in women’s college hoops, a men’s college hoops star is abruptly off his team, a Colombian golfer earns his third PGA Tour win and an NHL coach is fired.
• President of Iran’s soccer federation says World Cup participation in US is in doubt.
• South Carolina's Staley says school is working to bring 3 former players home from Israel.
• Colorado quarterback Dominiq Ponder dies in a single-car crash at age 23, police say.
• Pakistan carries out airstrikes inside Afghanistan as 'open war' on border continues.
• On this week's AP Religion Roundup, Hundreds of corrections for Texas' Bible curriculum, and hundreds of thousands line up to see the bones of Saint Francis.

—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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