• On today's episodes: Israeli hits Gaza with deadly overnight airstrikes; President Donald Trump targets Houthi rebels; Trump wants to close the Department of Education; an inmate is executed in Arizona; North Carolina approves funds for Hurricane Helen cleanup; the Latin Grammy Awards add new categories; and Finland is once again the world's happiest country.
• Immigrants disappear from US detainee tracking system after deportation flights.
• Social Security Administration to require in-person identity checks for new and existing recipients.
• DOGE official is taking a leadership role at USAID, an email obtained by AP says.
• Agent Orange cleanup and other efforts critical to ties with Vietnam jeopardized by USAID cuts.
• Defense Department webpage on Jackie Robinson's military service suddenly missing amid DEI purge.
• Federal judge says Columbia student activist's case should be heard in New Jersey.
• Trump administration suspends $175 million in federal funding for Penn over transgender swimmer.
• Under pressure from Trump, Columbia plans its next move with other colleges watching closely.
• Jury finds Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions in case over Dakota Access protest activities.
• Federal Reserve keeps interest rate unchanged, sees slower growth, slightly higher inflation ahead.
• Stock market today Wall Street rallies as pressure eases from the bond market after Fed decision.
• A former studio engineer is charged with stealing unreleased Eminem music and selling it online.
• Art advisor to stars, including Leonardo DiCaprio, sentenced to 30 months in prison.
• Hollywood director arrested on charges of swindling Netflix out of $11M for a show that never aired.
• Appeals court blocks Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
• Minnesota jury convicts alleged ringleader of massive pandemic food fraud scheme on all counts.
• West Virginia couple sentenced to maximum of decades in prison for abusing adopted children.
• Xavier rallies past Texas and Mount St. Mary’s handles American in the NCAA Tournament’s First Four, a Japanese phenom makes his much-anticipated MLB debut in Tokyo, the Vikings stick with their first-round pick over a four-time MVP at quarterback and the NHL prepares for labor negotiations.
• Banning the tush push and changes to playoff seeding are among proposed NFL rule changes.
• Report finds that Stanford football coach mistreated female staff members.
• A UN worker is killed in a strike in Gaza as Israel warns of new evacuation orders.
• EU signals a new drive to buy European weapons and break its security dependency on the US.

—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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