On today's episode:

• Minnesota and the Twin Cities sue the federal government to stop the immigration crackdown.
• Sen. Kelly sues the Pentagon over attempts to punish him, declaring it unconstitutional.
• Telephone service was restored in Iran following mass protests.
• Doctor charged in killings of his ex-wife and her Ohio husband waives right to extradition hearing.
• DOJ investigation of Fed Chair Powell sparks backlash, support for Fed independence.
• China urges Canada to break from US influence as PM Carney visits Beijing.
• Former Navy sailor sentenced to 16 years for selling information about ships to Chinese intelligence.
• Meta names former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chairman.
• More Americans identify as political independents, a new poll shows.
• Video captures Minneapolis immigration arrest in a city on edge after shooting of Renee Good.
• Muhammad Ali will be honored with a commemorative US postage stamp.
• L.A. Reid Settles Drew Dixon Sexual Assault Lawsuit.
• Thousands of nurses go on strike at several major New York City hospitals.
• What to know about the Uvalde school shooting trial as it heads into its second week.
• Wall Street ticks to records after shaking off worries about Trump's feud with the Fed.
• Paramount's next target in hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. is a board of its own making.
• Houston’s historic road win and Pittsburgh’s seventh straight playoff loss headline AFC wild-card Monday, a four-time NFL MVP may have played his final snap, an 11-time All-Star moves up the NBA’s scoring list and new No. 2s in the men’s and women’s AP Top 25 polls.
• Supreme Court takes up culture war battle over transgender athletes in school sports.
• WNBA, players' union agree to moratorium, halting initial stages of free agency.
• Columbus Blue Jackets fire coach Dean Evason, hire Rick Bowness to replace him.
• Brooks Koepka returns to PGA Tour under stiff financial penalty just 5 weeks after leaving LIV Golf.
• French farmers drive 350 tractors to Parliament to protest low incomes and EU trade deal.
• A video show mourners assembling at a morgue near Tehran.
• Russia launches another major attack on Ukraine's power grid, killing 4.
• Pope Leo XIV meets with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado in a surprise audience.
• Iran's foreign minister speaks on US, protests.
• Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk’s Grok over sexualised AI images.

—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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