On today's episode:

• Trump tries to rally House GOP as the party's majority narrows but meanders along the way.
• Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill ban.
• Trump says US to get 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil from Venezuela at market price.
• President Trump's complains that Democrats won't give him credit for the Venezuela operation.
• What’s next in deposed Venezuela leader Nicolas Maduro’s criminal case.
• What Americans think about the situation in Venezuela, according to recent polls.
• CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who sold US secrets to the Soviets, dies in prison at 84.
• White House says military 'always an option' in Greenland as European leaders reject US takeover.
• Homeland Security plans 2,000 officers in Minnesota for its 'largest immigration operation ever'.
• Trump administration says it’s withholding social safety net money from 5 states over fraud concerns.
• Ukraine's allies agree to provide multilayered security guarantees as part of a peace proposal.
• European leaders push back on Trump's comments about a US takeover of Greenland.
• Nick Reiner to be arraigned in killing of parents Rob and Michele Singer Reiner.
• Shooter who killed Brown students and MIT professor planned attack for months, says DOJ.
• Officer did nothing until it was too late during Uvalde school shooting, prosecutor says.
• George Conway, persistent Trump critic, is running for Congress in New York.
• Wall Street reaches more records on gains by Big Tech.
• A Super Bowl-winning coach is fired after nearly two decades, a handful of NFL coordinators are out of jobs, a star college wideout is turning pro, a big night for the Lakers’ star duo, a narrow victory for the nation’s No. 2 team and other college hoops scores.
• LPGA Tour gets its turn at tech-infused indoor golf with WTGL to start next season.
• NASCAR commissioner Steve Phelps resigns after inflammatory texts revealed in trial.
• SafeSport Center turns to Olympic gold medalist Benita Fitzgerald Mosley as new CEO.
• Curfew imposed in southern Nepal city after mosque vandalism sparks protests.
• Iran executes a man convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad.
• Fire safety inspections lapsed for years at Swiss bar where 40 died in New Year's blaze.
• Snow and ice wreak havoc across Europe, causing deadly accidents and travel chaos.

—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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