Laura Coates Live

Brand new video from the perspective of the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis. We examine what it shows and why both sides are saying it proves their point. Plus, Minnesota officials are opening up their own investigation as the local prosecutor is rejecting claims that the officer can’t somehow be charged.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Minnesota agency said it has been blocked from accessing key materials to conduct a joint investigation of the Minneapolis shooting. State and local officials have disputed claims by ICE and the Trump administration that the shooting was done in self-defense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has defended an ICE agent after he fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, saying she had tried to run over the officer. State and local officials disputed claims that the shooting was done in self-defense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump said Venezuela will turn over 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States, to be sold at market value and with the proceeds controlled by the US. Plus, the White House said that President Trump is “discussing a range of options” to acquire Greenland, making clear that using the US military is not off the table. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gunfire and anti-aircraft fire were seen over Caracas as the Venezuelan capital remains on edge following the US capture of President Nicolás Maduro. Trump also issued warnings to other countries, saying he could take military action in Colombia, told Mexico to get its “act together” on drugs and said the US “needs Greenland.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Documents related to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein were released today on the Justice Department’s website. They include never-before-released photographs of former President Bill Clinton with Epstein and a 1996 description of a criminal complaint against the late convicted sex offender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The suspect in the Brown University mass shooting was found dead tonight after taking his own life, Providence Chief of Police Oscar L. Perez, Jr. said. Claudio Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown University student and Portuguese national, was found at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, with a satchel, two firearms and evidence matching the crime scene, officials said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump made a series of false claims during his prime-time address from the White House on Wednesday night, most of which have been debunked before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, delivered a series of unusually candid and at times unflattering assessments of President Donald Trump, his second-term agenda and some of his closest allies in a series of wide-ranging interviews with Vanity Fair published Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nick Reiner is “responsible” for the deaths of his parents, legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and producer Michele Singer Reiner, Los Angeles police said. The couple’s daughter discovered them in their Brentwood home yesterday, according to a source. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate showing the notorious sex offender with Donald Trump and a whole lot of others. Democrats say there may be more to come. Plus, a CNN exclusive, Congresswoman Gabby Giffords speaks out against the attacks on her husband and much more. Plus, Michigan's fired football coach appears in court as we learn the troubling allegations that landed him behind bars. As well as the latest on the Brian Walshe story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Indiana Republicans reject President Trump's redistricting plan. Plus Trump's DOJ gets a double black eye. A grand jury rejects Letitia James' indictment again and Kilmar Abrego Garcia walks free. And the college football scandal that led to the arrest of a head coach at one of the nation's biggest programs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Millions of Americans face skyrocketing healthcare premiums come January 1. Now, Republicans on Capitol Hill are scrambling for a plan, any plan. Plus, U.S. forces repel from helicopters and seize an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Will Venezuela do anything about it? The prosecution has rested now in the murder trial of Brian Walshe. Now, the big question for the defense, is he going to testify in his own defense?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump tries to sell his economic message on the road while giving himself an A plus times five, Senator Amy Klobuchar has a lot to say about it and the social media ban in Australia that has many people asking, did that happen here? Plus, an update on the Brian Walshe case and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

US Rep. Jasmine Crockett filed Monday to run for US Senate from Texas in 2026, leaning into the criticisms of President Donald Trump that have built her national profile while also worrying Democrats hoping for a long-shot upset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible motive for the bombs placed near the DNC and RNC headquarters, people briefed on the matter told CNN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The FBI arrested a man from Woodbridge, Virginia, on Thursday who investigators believe planted pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the night before the 2021 US Capitol riot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth risked compromising sensitive military information, which could have endangered American troops and mission objectives, when he used Signal in March of this year to share highly-sensitive attack plans targeting Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to four sources familiar with the contents of a classified Inspector General report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Republican Matt Van Epps will win the special US House election for Tennessee’s 7th District, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, preventing an upset but emboldening Democrats as they were on track to over-perform in a normally deep-red district. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House defended an admiral who it said ordered a follow-up strike that killed survivors on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean. Lawmakers from both parties have voiced concerns over the second strike’s legality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two National Guardsmen are listed in critical condition after police say they were targeted and shot in broad daylight in Washington, DC. We are getting new footage from the scene and details about the suspect as we bring you all the latest.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The FBI and the Pentagon get involved over the video of six Democratic lawmakers telling troops to refuse illegal orders. How is this actually going to go? Plus, the leaked transcript of a stunning call over the war in Ukraine.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A major black eye for Trump’s DOJ after a judge tosses the cases against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James over an embarrassing mistake. Plus, the Pentagon singles out Sen. Mark Kelly.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a shock resignation, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling it quits just days after President Trump called her a traitor. Plus, in a stunning meeting at the White House, President Trump praises Zohran Mamdani.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump has yet again suggested that his political opponents deserve to be executed. And yet again, he’s basing this argument on a rather novel legal theory and a dubious interpretation of the facts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump said on social media tonight that he has signed the bill that directs the Department of Justice to publicly release all its Jeffrey Epstein-related files. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Senate has unanimously agreed to pass the House-backed bill forcing the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files as soon as it’s received from the chamber. Majority leader John Thune said that would happen tomorrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Speaker Mike Johnson signaled he could support a bill on releasing the files if changes were made to some provisions in the Senate. GOP Senate leader John Thune is still mulling whether to schedule a vote, a source said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump said Friday he will ask Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to many other high-profile figures, in an extraordinary step that comes just days after Democrats released emails from the late Epstein that mention him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

House Speaker Mike Johnson decided to quickly schedule a House vote on an effort to force the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein case files once the calculation was made that it couldn’t be stopped. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday released an additional 20,000 pages of documents the GOP-led panel received from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender whose death by suicide spawned intense scrutiny of the high-profile people he knew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Congress is moving quickly to pass a funding package that would end the longest federal shutdown in the nation’s history. Plus, Trump was discussing the issue of “affordability” after Democrats won state and local elections Tuesday in part by campaigning on the cost of living.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A small band of Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Monday night to approve a funding measure to reopen the federal government — without securing their party’s demand to guarantee an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, which help millions of Americans afford insurance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday temporarily paused a lower court order that required the Trump administration to cover full food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November, siding with the administration on a short-term basis in a legal fight that has quickly become a defining confrontation of the government shutdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Starting Friday, the Trump administration will cut flights at 40 airports nationwide by 4% and incrementally increase the reduction to 10% by next Friday if the shutdown continues, according to an emergency order from the Federal Aviation Administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Supreme Court appeared deeply concerned Wednesday with President Donald Trump’s reliance on a vague federal law to impose global tariffs, with several members of the court’s conservative wing picking apart the administration’s position in a case that could have sweeping implications for the economy and presidential power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper anchor Election Day coverage as voters across the country head to the polls in the first major elections of President Trump's second term. We bring you all the latest exit polls, analysis, and up to date results.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump tries a Hail Mary on the eve of major elections in what stands to be a test for him and the Democrats. Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin and Republican Congressman Byron Donalds join.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two judges tell the Trump administration they have to fund food benefits even with the government shutdown. Plus, the FBI director says a Halloween terror plot has been thwarted. Also, can you believe there is a Jeffrey Epstein investigation that you did now know about?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Strike first, answer questions never? We take you inside the stunning briefing that has Democrats furious about the deadly strikes on alleged drug boats. Plus, the shutdown moves from Congress to the courts as we await a high-stakes ruling that stave off a major crisis over food stamps.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump and China’s President Xi went face-to-face to discuss trade negotiations and at stake is the trade war that has put the United States’ economy on a roller coaster ride that just doesn’t seem to end.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The carnage continues as Hurricane Melissa churns from Jamaica to Cuba. Plus, ICE is in the hot seat as the intense and dramatic shakeup being planned to turbo charge Trump’s deportations is underway.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The panic sets in as the dirty shutdown politics get set to inflict pain that hasn’t been seen in 60 years. Could it sway the debate over who’s to blame? Plus, the real reason why Trump may be refusing to rule out the unconstitutional third term run.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The US Treasury Department announced on Friday that it is sanctioning Colombian President Gustavo Petro, accusing him of playing a “role in the global illicit drug trade.” Also sanctioned are Petro’s wife and son, and Colombia’s interior minister. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Portland Trail Blazers head coach and basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former NBA journeyman Damon Jones are among 34 people indicted in connection with two separate federal gambling investigations announced by the Eastern District of New York on Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Furloughed government workers speak out about the effects of the shutdown on their everyday lives. Missing paychecks are taking a toll while they try to balance everyday expenses, insurance payments, rent, and even college tuition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lawmakers have yet to reach an agreement to pay federal workers. GOP Sen. Ron Johnson introduced a bill that would only pay those who are being asked to continue working through the weekslong shutdown, while Democrats are pushing for all federal workers to be paid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Monday will allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in Portland — an important legal victory in a showdown over presidential power that’s happening on multiple fronts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amid an ongoing government shutdown and Trump’s push to deploy National Guard troops to American cities, millions are gearing up to protest his administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser-turned-adversary, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland on Thursday. Bolton, the third high-profile Trump political enemy to be indicted in less than a month, now faces eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defense information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Office of Management and Budget director warned that layoffs could climb “north of 10,000.” A memo was circulated in September that instructed agencies to prepare for mass layoffs in the event of a shutdown. This as Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez signaled at a CNN town hall that an end to the shutdown is far, far away.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The government shutdown clock ticks up while the countdown to higher health costs closes in, including for states that voted for Trump. Will Congress find any way out?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For the first time in more than two years, Hamas and its allies are not holding any living hostages in Gaza. Meanwhile, 1,718 Palestinian detainees who were being held in Israel without charge were released on Monday and returned to Gaza. Israel also released 250 Palestinians serving long-term sentences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia, as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department continues to pursue charges against his political opponents. James has been under investigation since May over a 2023 mortgage she took out to buy a home in Norfolk, Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a US-brokered ceasefire framework that will allow for the swift release of all hostages held in Gaza, Israeli withdrawal to an agreed point and the release of some Palestinian prisoners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday showed the sharp divide between the left and the right on how justice in the US is being carried out. Democrats and Republicans repeatedly talked past one another throughout the hearing, pointing fingers across the aisle over who was to blame for weaponizing the Justice Department. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration’s efforts to deploy National Guard troops to Democrat-led cities have prompted a legal showdown between the White House and state and local officials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sentenced to four years and two months in prison for his conviction on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He also must pay a $500,000 fine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The federal government has shut down as congressional lawmakers remain at odds over funding the government beyond September 30. Although Republicans control Capitol Hill and the White House, they need at least seven Democrats in the Senate to join them to pass a spending package under the chamber’s rules. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The federal government shut down at midnight after a deadlocked Congress failed to reach a deal on funding. Republicans and Democrats are at odds over enhanced Obamacare subsidies. Federal workers bear the brunt of government shutdowns, and the White House has said federal workforce layoffs are “imminent.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The federal government has officially shut down for the first time in six years after a deadlocked Congress failed to pass a funding measure to keep the lights on — and no one inside the Capitol knows what will happen next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Top Democrats emerged from a White House meeting believing that President Donald Trump may eventually cut a deal on their biggest demand — even if it first requires shutting down the government to get it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The alleged leak to the media that underpins the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey appears to relate to the 2016 investigation concerning Hillary Clinton, rather than the separate 2016 FBI investigation of Donald Trump and Russian election meddling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

James Comey, the long-time nemesis of Donald Trump from the early days of Trump’s first term, has been criminally charged with two felonies, both related to a lie he allegedly told Congress in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Federal prosecutors are preparing to ask a grand jury to indict former FBI Director James Comey on perjury charges, but have just days to make a final decision, according to people familiar with the investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jimmy Kimmel is back on his late-night stage — and full of emotion. After a nearly week-long suspension, the ABC star taped a new episode on Tuesday evening, and he spoke at length about the controversy that enveloped the show, according to audience members who spoke with CNN afterward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jimmy Kimmel will return to ABC on Tuesday night, the network said Monday, ending a nearly weeklong standoff over the late-night talk show. But not all of ABC’s affiliated stations will be carrying Kimmel’s comeback show. Sinclair, one of the country’s biggest owners of local TV stations, said its ABC affiliates will preempt the show “beginning Tuesday night.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday denounced Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr’s threats to pull ABC’s broadcast license as “unbelievably dangerous” and compared some of his rhetoric to “mafioso” tactics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Networks like ABC are facing pressure from President Donald Trump as he suggests regulators should take licenses away from broadcasters who platform entertainers that criticize him. Trump's comments come after ABC indefinitely suspended late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Disney’s ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show off the air indefinitely amid a controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The charging document for the 22-year-old suspect accused of killing Charlie Kirk outlines evidence collected by investigators, including DNA on the suspected murder weapon and a texted confession. In separate conversations with his roommate and family, the suspect shared that Kirk “spreads too much hate,” and he “had enough of his hatred,” the document said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the investigation into Kirk’s killing ongoing, President Donald Trump is continuing to push his crime crackdown agenda. Today he’s taking executive action to send a federal law enforcement task force to Memphis and plans to send a similar task force to Chicago next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk has been identified as Tyler Robinson and is being held without bail in a Utah jail. Authorities have pointed to what they described as anti-fascist messages engraved on bullet casings in a rifle found near the scene as potential evidence of a political motive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Audio captured near the podium where Charlie Kirk was speaking suggests he was hit with a single supersonic gunshot, according to an audio forensics expert. Meantime, sources say phrases related to cultural issues were scrawled on a rifle and ammunition recovered by authorities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charlie Kirk, a conservative political activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, has been fatally shot at an event at Utah Valley University. The shooter is believed to have fired once from a nearby roof in a “targeted attack,” according to the Utah Department of Public Safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump again denied that the Jeffrey Epstein birthday letter bearing his name came from him, instead blaming congressional Democrats for trying to shift attention from administration accomplishments. Earlier today, he called it a “dead issue.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The House Oversight Committee released a trove of records Monday evening from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, including a note bearing President Donald Trump’s name that was part of a collection of letters gifted to the late convicted sex offender for his 50th birthday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The US economy added just 22,000 jobs last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The unemployment rate rose to 4.3% from 4.2%.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparred with senators today — and faced pointed questioning from some Republicans who confirmed him — on vaccine policy, recent CDC shake-ups and public health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie said he and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “are willing to name names” on any list compiled by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. President Donald Trump had earlier dismissed the furor as a “Democrat hoax", even as women who said they’d been abused by Epstein called for action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

National Guard troops deployed in Washington, DC, as part of President Donald Trump’s anti-crime initiative are expected to have their military orders extended through December, a senior official familiar with the planning told CNN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal appeals court Friday struck down many of President Donald Trump’s historic tariffs, saying he unlawfully leaned on emergency powers to impose the import taxes. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize tariffs like the ones Trump used the law for earlier this year, the Federal Circuit said in an unsigned opinion upholding a lower-court ruling against Trump’s tariffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Minneapolis is in mourning after a shooter fired on praying students through the windows of a church yesterday, killing two children. Eighteen other people were wounded, most of them students. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A shooter fired through the windows of a church in Minnesota this morning, killing two children. The FBI identified the shooter, who is dead, as Robin Westman, 23. The suspect graduated from the school in 2017, according to a yearbook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump’s decision late Monday to dismiss Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook escalated his yearlong effort to consolidate executive power and could open a new high-stakes legal battle at the Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker railed against President Trump for suggesting he would deploy federal forces to Chicago, accusing the administration of “searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities and end elections.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Justice Department on Friday released the long-awaited transcripts of a weeks-old interview it conducted with convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The Maxwell interview was one of two steps the White House took to try and quell outrage over its handling of the Epstein files. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A California parole board has denied parole for Erik Menendez, who was convicted alongside his brother Lyle of murdering their parents in 1989, delivering a crippling blow to the brothers’ yearslong fight for release. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Texas House of Representatives has passed a redistricting bill, paving the way for Republican-drawn maps that could net the GOP as many as five US House seats to be finalized in the coming days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump escalated his campaign to purge cultural institutions of materials that conflict with his political directives on Tuesday, alleging museums were too focused on highlighting negative aspects of American history, including “how bad slavery was.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russia’s latest strikes across Ukraine, which killed at least 10 people, saying the Kremlin intends to “humiliate diplomatic efforts” and underscores “why reliable security guarantees are required.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

US President Donald Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin made “great progress” but did not emerge from today’s summit with a deal on the war in Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gov. Gavin Newsom formally kicked off his push Thursday to redraw California’s congressional maps in response to a Republican-led effort in Texas, setting up the next stage of his fight against both the Trump administration and a coalition of gerrymandering opponents within the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The DC National Guard began appearing in the nation’s capital after President Donald Trump announced he is deploying guard troops and placing Washington, DC’s police department “under direct federal control,” citing a public safety emergency after an assault on a former government worker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump announced that he is placing the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and is deploying the National Guard to deal with crime in the city.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump, justifying his temporary federal takeover of policing in the nation’s capital, claimed at a press conference Monday that the violent crime situation in Washington, DC, “is getting worse, not getting better.” But violence in the capital is actually falling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump said he’ll be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska after earlier in the day previewing terms of a potential peace deal to end the war in Ukraine that could include “some swapping of territories.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump announced in a social media post on Thursday that he has directed the Department of Commerce to begin work on a new US census that excludes undocumented immigrants from the population count. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices