Hurricane Helene isn’t an outlier. It’s a harbinger of the future, according to NBC hurricane specialist John Morales in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . He joins us to talk about his concerns for Milton’s future victims. Vox asks: Can we trust the polls this year? And Apple News editor Gideon Resnick discusses what the polls can and can’t tell us in the final weeks of the election. In a landmark move, the EPA said U.S. cities must remove all lead pipes over...
Oct 09, 2024•13 min
The Washington Post ’s Ann Marimow outlines the major cases the Supreme Court is taking on this term, and assesses the possibility of legal disputes about the 2024 presidential election. NBC News ’s Sahil Kapur explains why Republicans believe they can confirm multiple Supreme Court justices if Trump wins — and why the next president will inherit the fewest judicial vacancies in decades. Dr. Keren Landman, a senior health reporter for Vox , reveals the profit-obsessed monster d...
Oct 08, 2024•13 min
CNN ’s Bianna Golodryga has been in close touch with the families of Israeli hostages over the last year. She tells us about some of their experiences. Youmna El Sayed, a correspondent for Al Jazeera English , has been reporting from inside Gaza. She talks about what the year of war has been like for Palestinians under Israeli bombardment. Zack Beauchamp, a senior global correspondent for Vox, speaks to Apple News In Conversation on how the outcome of the U.S. presidential election ...
Oct 07, 2024•13 min
Republican Liz Cheney invoked January 6 as she touted her backing of Kamala Harris in Wisconsin. CNN has more. Nikki Haley’s endorsement of Trump doesn’t mean her supporters will follow her, Politico reports. ProPublica reporter Lizzie Presser shares the stories of two teens who got caught up in a system unprepared to handle kids on either side of the opioid trade. Pet-custody arrangements are on the rise, though they might not be in the best interest of the animals. Washington Post ...
Oct 04, 2024•13 min
The Washington Post looks into why Helene’s floods caught North Carolina off guard. Wall Street Journal reporter Elizabeth Findell on how the Harris and Trump campaigns are battling over working-class voters in Nevada. The state could go either way. Barbara Demick with the New Yorker reports on the end of China’s international adoption program, which offered new lives to abandoned infants but also depended on abuse, abduction, and trafficking. Federal prosecutors laid out their most ...
Oct 03, 2024•13 min
NBC News has the most important moments from the debate between VP candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz. Apple News’s Gideon Resnick was there. Iran fired ballistic missiles on Israel in the latest escalation of conflict in the Middle East. The Guardian has the story. Sean “Diddy” Combs faces 120 new sexual-assault allegations in new lawsuits. The Washington Post has details. The Asheville Citizen-Times shares striking images that show how flooding from Helene has severely damaged ...
Oct 02, 2024•15 min
Crews are rushing to deliver aid in North Carolina after the state was ravaged by Helene. NBC News is on the story. Reuters previews 2024’s first and last vice-presidential debate. Israeli troops are on the ground in southern Lebanon. CNN has what to know. NBC10 Philadelphia lays out how the dockworkers’ strike could impact the region. Pete Rose desperately wanted to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, but was also fearful that if it happened, he wouldn’t be alive to see it. A U...
Oct 01, 2024•14 min
CNN reports on how multiple states in the southeastern U.S. are reeling from the impact of Hurricane Helene. Blue Ridge Public Radio has put together a list of resources where you can help flood victims in North Carolina. Politico reports on a looming strike that could disrupt the economy just before the election. It’s mostly up to one fiery union leader, Harold Daggett. Caroline Kitchener, who covers abortion for the Washington Post, tells Apple News Conversation what pos...
Sep 30, 2024•13 min
The City ’s Gwynne Hogan tells us what to know about the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams — and what could happen next. Kamala Harris is making her first trip to the border as a presidential candidate today. Axios has more. After a Florida jury spared the Parkland school shooter’s life, the state made it easier for juries to recommend the death penalty. Joe Sexton with the Marshall Project has the story. Some people don’t evacuate despite repeat...
Sep 27, 2024•13 min
Congress passed a bill to avert government shutdown, setting up another funding fight in December. The Washington Post has more. New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted on federal criminal charges, the Wall Street Journal reports. In a Pittsburgh speech, Harris pledged a “pragmatic” approach to the economy. Politico has the details. The Los Angeles Times ’s Tony Briscoe discusses California’s lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, which accuses the oil giant of mi...
Sep 26, 2024•14 min
An 11th person accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault, Rolling Stone reports. The magazine’s Cheyenne Roundtree discusses the allegations against him. She also previously spoke to In Conversation about them. CNN reports that Republican efforts to change the way voting works in Nebraska have stalled. Apple News editor Gideon Resnick unpacks why, while USA Today looks at another state contending with last-minute attempts to modify the election process. Missour...
Sep 25, 2024•15 min
News & Observer Washington correspondent Danielle Battaglia describes how North Carolina voters are thinking about presidential candidates after a recent scandal in the governor’s race shook things up. Israel and Hezbollah exchanged fire after Lebanon suffered huge casualties. Reuters has more. Benoît Morenne with the Wall Street Journal explains how an unusual lawsuit by an energy mogul could bankrupt Greenpeace USA. Helene could hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane. Axios has ...
Sep 24, 2024•11 min
Israel launched a widespread wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Reuters has more. Congress struck a deal for a temporary funding agreement to avoid a government shutdown for now. USA Today has the story. A Texas medical school was leasing out body parts of unclaimed corpses, an NBC News investigation found. NBC’s Mike Hixenbaugh describes what the reporting revealed. CBS News has what to know about the deadly shooting in Birmingham, Alabama. Several senior campaign officials ...
Sep 23, 2024•10 min
Across the U.S. in November, voters will weigh ballot measures including election policies, minimum-wage increases, and marijuana legalization. Politico ’s Emily Schultheis takes a look. Apple News In Conversation spoke to Madeleine Baran about how the U.S. military downplays possible war crimes. U.S. overdose deaths plummeted, saving thousands of lives. NPR has the story. Israel said it hit 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers in Lebanon. BBC News has more. A Kentucky sheriff killed a judge in ...
Sep 20, 2024•11 min
A second wave of exploding devices hit Lebanon. BBC News has more. The Washington Post breaks down what the Fed’s big rate cut means for consumers, businesses, and investors. ProPublica’s Kavitha Surana reports on how health experts in Georgia determined that two women, Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller , died after they couldn’t access legal abortions in the state — which has a strict ban. Republican divisions sunk a House bill aimed at avoid...
Sep 19, 2024•11 min
Israel’s Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside pagers ordered by Hezbollah months before Tuesday’s detonations in Lebanon, sources told Reuters . Rupert Murdoch faced his kids in court, with Fox News’s fate in the balance. NPR ’s David Folkenflik unpacks the family’s drama. Instagram made sweeping changes to how teens can use the app. The Verge looks at what you need to know. CBS News explains how the Fed’s first rate cut in four years may impact yo...
Sep 18, 2024•11 min
USA Today lays out new information in Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt of Trump. The Washington Post ’s Miriam Berger explains how new video and witnesses challenge Israel’s account of the killing of a U.S. activist in the West Bank. NPR looks at how TikTok is battling a U.S. ban on the app in court. Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested based on a sealed indictment, Reuters reports. The court battle over Rupert Murdoch’s family fortune got underway. BBC News...
Sep 17, 2024•12 min
Trump was safe on Sunday after the Secret Service foiled what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing in Florida. Reuters has details. And CNN explains why golf courses can be so difficult to secure. Iran is turning to the Hells Angels and other criminal gangs to target its critics. The Washington Post investigates. The Wall Street Journal examines how religious movies are sweeping Hollywood, with rich investors pouring in millions. A Springfield, Ohio woman told NB...
Sep 16, 2024•13 min
PBS reports on an Ohio city with a community of Haitian migrants that’s now in the political spotlight. Ben Steverman with Bloomberg Businessweek explains how the pandemic caused a recession in Americans’ social lives, and what that means for the U.S. economy. Families who’ve been torn apart by QAnon conspiracies told their stories to author Jesselyn Cook. She breaks down what she’s learned on Apple News In Conversation . The judge in the Georgia election-interference cas...
Sep 13, 2024•12 min
The Wall Street Journal ’s Alexander Osipovich explains the legal battle over whether Americans will be able to wager on election results. Ukraine is asking for permission to use long-range U.S. missiles to strike deep inside Russia. The Washington Post reports. Pamela Colloff writes in ProPublica about how a medical examiner has recanted testimony that a child died of shaken-baby syndrome, but the father is still in prison for murder. It’s an update of her earlier reporting on the s...
Sep 12, 2024•13 min
Harris and Trump met in what is likely their only presidential debate. Gideon Resnick joins to discuss, and NBC News has six key takeaways. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled to keep an abortion-rights measure on the November ballot. The Kansas City Star has more. WABC reports on how more FDNY members have died from 9/11-related illness than were killed on the day of the attack. CNN explains why the search for the Kentucky shooting suspect is so difficult. Jury selection was completed in the trial...
Sep 11, 2024•16 min
NOTUS reporter Jasmine Wright and CNN ’s Kristen Holmes take us inside the Harris and Trump campaigns’ preparations for debate night. CNN explains how technology helped prevent further deaths at Georgia’s Apalachee High School, and reports on new details that raise questions about efforts by authorities and school officials to prevent the shooting. Gaza officials say many are dead after Israeli missile attacks on a tent camp for refugees. Reuters has more. Missouri&rsquo...
Sep 10, 2024•13 min
Trump said he was expanding the battleground map. CNN ’s Kristen Holmes explains how his campaign spending suggests otherwise. Harris’s huge cash edge means less need for her to headline fundraisers, according to the Wall Street Journal . A Palestinian girl was killed after Israeli airstrikes struck her building, NBC reports. A photo from the morgue of her in her powder-pink rollerblades has become a defining image of the war. As casualties climb, the Washington Post re...
Sep 09, 2024•12 min
Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei died following a brutal attack in Kenya, AFP reports. Elle looks at how patriarchal attitudes in the country enable gender-based violence. Axios examines some of the surprising 2024 races that could decide House control, while Politico looks at why the Democrats are spending unprecedented sums on downballot races. The Atlantic ’s Malcolm Ferguson explains how modern marijuana became so potent. The father of the Georgia school-shooting s...
Sep 06, 2024•14 min
Two students and two teachers were killed at a high school in Georgia. CNN has the latest. A judge could decide how Trump’s election-interference case proceeds. The Washington Post ’s Devlin Barrett details what to watch for. U.S. intelligence and government officials are contending with cyberattacks by Iran aimed at disrupting the 2024 election. CNN has the story. Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney says she will vote for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. USA Today has more. ...
Sep 05, 2024•14 min
Laura Meckler of the Washington Post explains why cellphone bans are spreading in schools amid growing mental-health worries. Longtime Republicans in Florida, Arizona, and other states are campaigning for abortion rights. The Wall Street Journal ’s Laura Kusisto has details. A string of recent deaths in youth football has renewed calls for reform. NBC reports. The NFL has embraced a soft-shell helmet cover to protect players from concussions. CNN looks into what the science says about them...
Sep 04, 2024•12 min
Protesters gathered across Israel after the bodies of six hostages were recovered from Gaza. Anger over their deaths has amplified pressure on Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire deal. The Guardian has the story. Union members are crucial to Harris’s campaign. USA Today explains how she’s pitching to them. NPR and ProPublica lay out why it’s so hard to find a therapist who takes insurance. NPR reports on German elections that saw the far right make historic gains. Brazil&rsqu...
Sep 03, 2024•12 min
Richard Rubin of the Wall Street Journal explains how your tax bill could change depending on who wins the White House. The Army says an Arlington National Cemetery worker was pushed by Trump aides. NPR examines the fallout. Will Carless of USA Today breaks down the impact of the Telegram CEO’s arrest on far-right users in the U.S. The death toll rose in the Boar’s Head–linked listeria outbreak. The Washington Post has details. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the man wh...
Aug 30, 2024•13 min
CNN examines the 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024. Reuters reports on why the West Bank city of Jenin is a hotbed of conflict between the Israeli military and Palestinians. NPR details the dispute over the Trump campaign’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery. The U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, spoke to PBS about why he issued a warning about the stress of parenting. A jury found Robert Telles, a former Clark County public administrator, guilty in the fatal stabbing of ...
Aug 29, 2024•13 min
With eyes on November, Colorado Republicans have been voting against certifying elections. Erin Mansfield from USA Today talks about why it’s important. Democrats sued to block new GOP-backed Georgia election-certification rules. CNN has more. New Taliban restrictions on women in Afghanistan include a law that bans them from speaking in public. The Guardian has details. The Paris Games will represent a turning point for the Paralympic movement, the International Paralympic Committee presid...
Aug 28, 2024•12 min
