On today's episode:

• House returns for vote to end the government shutdown after nearly 2 months away.
• There's no timeline on when flight cuts will ease up after the government shutdown ends.
• Judge to hear arguments on law cutting Planned Parenthood Medicaid funds.
• ByHeart recalls all baby formula sold nationwide as infant botulism outbreak grows.
• Indian police detain suspects in Kashmir after deadly New Delhi car blast.
• Supreme Court extends its order blocking full SNAP payments, with shutdown potentially near an end.
• President Trump lays a wreath as the US celebrates its military veterans.
• Newsom tells AP the eight senators who struck the shutdown deal aren't alarmed enough about Trump.
• Judge adopts Utah congressional map creating a Democratic-leaning district for 2026.
• Oscar-nominated actor Sally Kirkland, known for 'Anna,' dies.
• Record-low temperatures shock the Southeast US while snowfall blankets parts of the Northeast.
• Christian missionary father and daughter killed in South Florida plane crash.
• Stocks were mostly higher on Tuesday.
• SGA’s Thunder handle Curry’s Warriors in a top NBA clash, a hoops executive who traded away a superstar is fired, one top 10 team avoids an upset while another falls in college basketball, the top teams in the CFP rankings remain unchanged in college football, the NFL’s reigning No. 2 pick has surgery and MLB’s top managers are revealed.
• NBA confirms that the All-Star Game will feature a U.S. vs. the World format this season.
• Ex-NFL star Antonio Brown pleads not guilty to attempted murder charge stemming from Miami shooting.
• Fired coach Brian Kelly lawsuit alleges LSU is declining to honor the terms of his contract.
• Russia makes gains in southern Ukraine as it expands front-line attacks.
• Syria says it is joining the anti-IS coalition but not the military one.
• A suicide bomber has struck outside a court in Islamabad, killing 12 people.
• Grieving relatives in New Delhi want news of the loved ones, after a New Delhi car bomb explosion.

—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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