• On today's episode: The House approved President Donald Trump's request to slash $9 billion in spending; a poll reveals most people believe the new tax law benefits the wealthy; the IRS will get a new leader; global shares opened trading Friday higher; the European Union will impose new sancitons on Russia.
• Nationwide protests begin against Trump's immigration crackdown and health care cuts.
• Trump won't recommend special counsel in Epstein investigation, spokeswoman says.
• Trump will visit Scotland, where his family has golf courses, and will talk trade with Starmer.
• House sends bill regulating stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency, to Trump.
• Trump is checked for lower leg swelling and diagnosed with a common condition in older adults.
• Urban League declares a 'state of emergency' for civil rights in the US in response to Trump.
• Just 1 in 4 US adults say Trump's policies have helped them, a new AP-NORC poll finds.
• Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS, ends May 2026.
• Steve Miller Band says extreme weather is so dangerous it’s canceling its tour.
• Star-crossed singer Connie Francis, whose hits included 'Pretty Little Baby,' dead at 87.
• Puppies rescued from flood-stricken Texas arrive at Chicago shelter.
• An Idaho judge has lifted a sweeping gag order in Bryan Kohberger's quadruple murder case.
• Wall Street cruises to more records as PepsiCo and tech stocks rally.
• Juul can continue selling its tobacco and menthol e-cigarettes, FDA says.
• Funders commit $1B toward developing AI tools for frontline workers.
• Average long-term US mortgage rate rises to 6.75%, second straight uptick.
• Republican senators caution Trump against firing Fed chair Jerome Powell.
• Retail sales up a surprising 0.6% in June after a May pullback by consumers.
• US applications for jobless benefits fall for fifth straight week, hitting lowest level since April.
• American and English golfers are tied atop the British Open with a homeland hero lurking, an NFL record contract for an All-Pro linebacker, a rising receiver is sentenced to prison and the NFLPA head steps down, a nine-time NBA All-Star returns to Portland and the WNBA’s top star bows out of its All-Star weekend.
• Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound, dies in crash in Italy.
• Syrian government forces set to re-enter Sweida province after renewed Druze-Bedouin clashes.
• Britain will lower its voting age to 16 in a bid to strengthen democracy.
• Zelenskyy shakes up Ukrainian Cabinet, appointing a new prime minister to reinvigorate war effort.
• 2 killed and several injured in Israeli strike on Gaza's only Catholic church.

—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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