Germany’s CDU and SPD reach a deal to form a coalition government, Total U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports reach 145%, A whistleblower alleges that Meta was involved in secret AI dealings with China, Peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels begin , Hundreds of Israeli reservists call for a deal to return the hostages, The U.S. begins screening immigrants' social media for antisemitism, AI is projected to double the world’s data center energy use by 2030, The U.S.House pa...
Apr 11, 2025•31 min•Ep. 785
Donald Trump increases China tariffs to 125% and pauses reciprocal tariffs on other countries, an alleged PRC-led WeChat campaign targets Carney in Canada’s election, China rejects Ukrainian claims about Its citizens fighting alongside Russia, France’s National Assembly passes a Mayotte citizenship restriction, the DR Congo repatriates Americans spared the death penalty over a failed coup, a judge orders the White House to lift restrictions on The Associated Press, while President Trump signs ex...
Apr 10, 2025•34 min•Ep. 784
Trump says the US and Iran will hold direct talks this weekend, The E.U. readies counter-tariffs on the U.S., The Washington Post reports that Musk urged Trump to reverse his tariffs, DOGE is allowed to access federal personal data, Global executions hit a nine-year high, The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to use the Alien Enemies Act for deportations, Nearly 1 million migrants who entered the US under the Biden-era CBP One app are ordered to leave, Clean energy is found to have m...
Apr 09, 2025•28 min•Ep. 783
Global stock markets plunge as Trump threatens further tariffs on China, Marine Le Pen vows to fight her embezzlement conviction, Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Trump in Washington, South Korea’s speaker pushes constitutional reform, The UK eases EV rules, Australia’s Coalition reverses its public service work-from-home ban, A second child dies amid Texas’ measles outbreak, The WHO warns that aid cuts could threaten global maternal health, Over 30 are killed after heavy rains flood Congo's capita...
Apr 08, 2025•33 min•Ep. 782
Global markets plunge in reaction to President Trump’s tariffs, South Korea's court upholds President Yoon's impeachment, The EU and Central Asian nations deepen ties in their first-ever summit, An Israeli strike kills a Hamas commander in Lebanon, A New Zealand committee rejects the Treaty Principles Bill, President Trump claims Iran wants direct talks amid mounting tensions, Donald Trump fires high-level national security officials, The Pentagon launches an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s Si...
Apr 05, 2025•29 min•Ep. 781
Hungary welcomes Israel’s Netanyahu for a four-day state trip, NYC Mayor Eric Adams announces plans to seek reelection as an independent, France warns that war is “almost inevitable” if U.S.-Iran nuclear talks fail, an Israeli court extends the detainment of two Netanyahu aides over a Qatar probe, Senate Republicans release a $5T budget plan to extend Trump’s tax cuts, new evidence challenges the conviction of former UK nurse Lucy Letby, South Korea makes a record 2-ton cocaine bust worth $680M,...
Apr 04, 2025•33 min•Ep. 780
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker gives a marathon speech to oppose Trump’s policies, The New York Times details the extent of U.S. involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war, an Israeli strike kills a Hezbollah official in Beirut, China launches military drills around Taiwan, the U.S. admits to an 'administrative error' in the deportation of a Maryland resident, the U.S. attorney general seeks the death penalty in the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, OpenAI secures a record $40B in funding, an AI brain implant...
Apr 02, 2025•31 min•Ep. 779
Marine Le Pen is barred from politics for five years, Donald Trump says he is 'pissed off' at Putin, Myanmar's earthquake death toll crosses 2,000, global markets tumble after Trump says tariffs will hit globally, Musk hands out $1 million checks at a Wisconsin Supreme Court rally, the UK hosts a 40-nation summit to combat people smuggling, Israel issues evacuation orders for all of Rafah, Sudan's RSF admits retreat from Khartoum, Trump threatens to bomb Iran, a French regulator fines Apple 150 ...
Apr 01, 2025•35 min•Ep. 778
Deadly earthquakes cause devastation in Myanmar and Thailand, Australia sets a May 3 federal election date, Vladamir Putin proposes a UN administration for Ukraine, South Sudan’s vice president is put under house arrest , Donald Trump and Mark Carney hold their first call amid the US-Canada tariff row, A judge orders the Trump team to preserve its leaked Signal chat, JD Vance visits Greenland, Utah becomes the first US state to ban fluoride in public water, Algerian author Boualem Sansal is jail...
Mar 29, 2025•30 min•Ep. 777
Trump announces a global 25% auto tariff, Istanbul elects an interim mayor following Imamoglu’s arrest, Australia’s Albanese prepares to 'imminently’ call an election, North Korea unveils AI suicide drones, the U.S. Health Department cuts 10,000 jobs, six Russian nationals die after a tourist submarine sinks off Egypt’s coast, an alleged leader of the MS-13 gang is arrested in Virginia, a study links human activities to biodiversity loss across all major organisms globally, OpenAI expects to be ...
Mar 28, 2025•30 min•Ep. 776
Protests erupt in Northern Gaza, Thailand’s Prime Minister survives a no-confidence vote, Canada accuses India of meddling in its Conservative Party race, US intelligence suggests that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, President Trump signs an Executive Order requiring proof of citizenship to vote, The Atlantic publishes more details on Trump admin.’s Yemen Signal incident, the Supreme Court upholds federal ghost gun regulations, Australia’s inflation reportedly dropped to 2.4% in February,...
Mar 27, 2025•31 min•Ep. 775
The White House accidentally shares a military planning groupchat with a journalist, The US reports that Ukraine and Russia have agreed to pause military strikes in the Black Sea, Palestinian filmmaker and Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal is reportedly detained in the West Bank, The UN estimates that US aid cuts could result in 6.2M AIDs-related deaths over 4 years, The right-wing Alternative for Germany gains power in Parliament, Japan's longest death row inmate is awarded $1.4M after being exonerate...
Mar 26, 2025•26 min•Ep. 774
Protests erupt in Turkey as the mayor of Istanbul is jailed, planned visits by US officials to Greenland spark diplomatic tensions, a court reinstates Han Duck-soo as acting president of South Korea, Hamas responds 'positively' to a new Gaza proposal that Israel denies receiving the terms for, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls a snap election for April 28, Trump announces a 'secondary tariff' on Venezuela, the US IRS reportedly nears a deal with immigration enforcement to share tax data,...
Mar 25, 2025•33 min•Ep. 773
The UAE reportedly commits $1.4T to the US in a 10-Year investment deal, A report states that global debt has eclipsed $100T, Sudan's army retakes the presidential palace in Khartoum, Israel’s Defense Minister says Israel will annex parts of Gaza if hostages are not released, A power outage shuts down London’s Heathrow Airport, The Pentagon and Pres. Trump deny that Elon Musk got a PRC war plan briefing, Donald Trump rescinds his order against the law firm Paul Weiss, A US judge blocks the depor...
Mar 23, 2025•24 min•Ep. 772
Trump signs an order to downsize the Department of Education, freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi addresses the UN security council, Indonesia expands the military's role in civilian institutions, the UK hosts a 30-nation meeting for a Ukraine peacekeeping force, Argentina’s lower house approves an IMF loan plan, Canada reports that four of its citizens were executed in China on drug charges, Greenpeace is ordered to pay $667M in the Dakota pipeline case, Paris claims that a French scientist was d...
Mar 21, 2025•30 min•Ep. 771
Istanbul’s mayor is detained over investigations into alleged corruption and terrorism support, Canada inks a $4.2B Arctic radar deal with Australia, Ukraine reports Russian strikes after Putin agreed to a partial truce in consultation with the Trump admin., Germany breaks its debt rules to finance its defense spending boost, the UK’s Kemi Badenoch drops her net zero emissions support, Jair Bolsonaro's son takes leave from Brazil’s Congress and seeks US political asylum, a US federal judge block...
Mar 20, 2025•33 min•Ep. 770
Putin agrees to pause strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for 30 days, The Gaza cease-fire ends as Israel strikes the enclave, The suspect in the attempted assassination of Slovakia’s prime minister is indicted on terror charges, The Trump administration is set to release 80K pages of unredacted JFK files, The UK announces $6.5B in welfare cuts, Hungary moves to ban the Budapest Pride Parade, China's BYD announces a five-minute electric vehicle charging system, The White House rejects a c...
Mar 19, 2025•27 min•Ep. 769
Trump says he will speak with Putin on Tuesday, 59 people are killed in a nightclub fire in North Macedonia, US strikes on Yemen's Houthi rebels kill at least 53, Netanyahu moves to sack Israel's internal security chief, Trump defies a court order in a mass deportation to El Salvador, the EU hosts a Syria aid conference amid the post-Assad transition, the US Democratic Party hits a historic low in voter approval, SpaceX Crew-10 docks at the ISS to relieve two stranded astronauts, the UK’s health...
Mar 18, 2025•35 min•Ep. 768
China hosts Iran nuclear talks amid Washington-Tehran tensions, Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on a draft peace deal, The EU pledges $5.1B to South Africa, Peru passes a law regulating NGO operations, A UK committee makes a key decision regarding an assisted dying bill, Chuck Schumer backs the GOP’s funding bill, Nearly 100 are arrested at Trump Tower in protests over the Mahmoud Khalil detention, The Trump administration takes its birthright citizenship case to the Supreme Court, Meta adopts X's ...
Mar 15, 2025•29 min•Ep. 767
Syria's al-Sharaa signs a new constitution, dozens are arrested amid protests against Argentina’s pension cuts, Trump considers a 200% tariff on EU alcohol, Russia’s Putin expresses openness to a US-proposed cease-fire, the UK’s Keir Starmer scraps NHS England, the White House pulls its nomination of David Weldon as CDC director, European measles cases hit a 25-year high, a US judge extends a ban on the deportation of pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil, the Trump administration flies all rema...
Mar 14, 2025•34 min•Ep. 766
The US Dept. of Education slashes its workforce , Greenland’s opposition wins an unexpected victory , Pres. Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum come into effect , at least 190 hostages are rescued amid the Pakistan train hijacking incident, Nicola Sturgeon won’t seek re-election to the Scottish Parliament in 2026, Colombia's Gustavo Petro calls for a referendum on stalled reforms, the US House passes a stopgap funding bill, the US Dept. of Agriculture suspends $30M to the Univ. of Maine, Argen...
Mar 13, 2025•33 min•Ep. 765
Former Philippine Pres. Rodrigo Duterte is arrested , The US and Canada agree to renegotiate the USMCA trade agreement, The Syrian Democratic Forces agree to integrate with the government, The US resumes aid to Ukraine as Kyiv says its open to a 30-day ceasefire, A militant group claims to have taken 182 civilians hostage in an attack on a Pakistani train, A former Meta executive alleges that Facebook developed censorship tools for China, RFK Jr. seeks to end a ‘self-affirm’ rule for food ingred...
Mar 12, 2025•30 min•Ep. 764
The Syrian government says it’s ended its military operation against Assad loyalists, Mark Carney is chosen to replace Canada’s Justin Trudeau, Israel cuts off electricity to Gaza ahead of talks in Qatar, Romania bars a right-wing candidate from the presidential election rerun, Reform UK suspends Rupert Lowe amid party infighting, Donald Trump declines to rule out a 2025 recession amid trade turmoil, an oil tanker-cargo ship collision sparks a major rescue operation in the North Sea, the Secret ...
Mar 11, 2025•32 min•Ep. 763
A South Korean court orders the release of impeached President Yoon, Trump says he sent a letter to Iran's leader to seek a nuclear deal, Donald Trump limits Elon Musk's authority over federal workforce cuts, The US and Ukraine prepare to hold talks in Saudi Arabia, Clashes between Syrian forces and Assad loyalists kill dozens, A US House panel subpoenas Google over Biden-era content moderation policies, Three Bulgarian nationals are found guilty of spying for Russia in the UK, The world’s sea i...
Mar 09, 2025•28 min•Ep. 762
the Greek Prime Minister faces a no-confidence vote after protests over the 2023 train disaster, Pres. Trump suspends Mexico tariffs until April, an Iranian singer is flogged for an anti-hijab protest, the White House denies that there is a current plan to revoke Ukrainian refugees' status, while Trump threatens Hamas over hostage release, new polling shows that Sir Keir Starmer's favorability is at a six month high, New Zealand sacks its UK envoy, the US House censures Rep. Al Green after his d...
Mar 07, 2025•33 min•Ep. 761
Pres. Trump delivers a major speech to Congress, Germany plans to relax its debt brake and increase defense spending, a BlackRock-led group buys Panama Canal ports from a Hong Kong firm, the US halts the flow of intelligence to Ukraine, while the US and Israel reject Egypt's Gaza reconstruction plan, the UK’s treasury is reportedly planning billions in welfare cuts, the US Supreme Court denies the Trump Admin.’s bid to block USAID payments, a judge rejects Elon Musk's bid to block OpenAI’s for-p...
Mar 06, 2025•35 min•Ep. 760
The US faces retaliatory measures as Trump’s planned tariffs take effect, Saudi Arabia considers resuming Lebanese imports, Trump suspends all US military aid to Ukraine, the Arab League discusses a post-war Gaza reconstruction plan, the UN reports that hundreds of children have been sexually assaulted amid Sudan’s ongoing conflict, the US Social Security Administration identifies $800M in savings, the UK launches an anti-migration ad campaign in Iraq, Linda McMahon is confirmed as US education ...
Mar 05, 2025•31 min•Ep. 759
Zelenskyy says Ukraine is still 'ready to sign' a US minerals deal, Multiple casualties are reported as a car rams into a crowd in Mannheim, Germany, Israel halts humanitarian aid to Gaza, The US reportedly halts offensive cyber operations against Russia, King Charles III meets with Justin Trudeau, Trump's crypto reserve plan sparks a major digital currency rally, A judge blocks Trump's firing of a federal watchdog chief, Pope Francis suffers two episodes of acute respiratory failure, A private ...
Mar 04, 2025•33 min•Ep. 758
Donald Trump calls Volodymyr Zelenskyy 'disrespectful' in an Oval Office blow-up, China's naval drills near Australia spark regional tension , Canada’s Doug Ford secures a third consecutive majority government in Ontario's snap election, Austria forms a coalition without its right-wing election-winner, a key UK international development minister resigns over aid cuts, Pres. Trump plans to sign an Executive Order making English the official US language, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm...
Mar 01, 2025•32 min•Ep. 757
Trump holds the first Cabinet meeting of his second term, A high-level meeting between the EU and US is canceled , The UK’s Starmer meets with Trump, The jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party calls for the group to disarm, Thailand deports 40 Uyghurs to China, The US Supreme Court hears a case of alleged ‘straight discrimination,’ An inquiry finds that Greece's worst rail disaster was due to system failures, The Washington Posts’ opinion section refocuses its attention on free markets a...
Feb 28, 2025•30 min•Ep. 756
