ABCNEWS - Inflation report to be released as Iran war sends gas prices surging
Overall prices cooled in recent months but remain above the Fed's target.
NPR (Cory Turner) - Federal oversight protects student borrowers. Some of it has stopped, watchdog says
Without this Education Department oversight, borrowers could "be placed in the wrong loan repayment status, billed for incorrect amounts" and more, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says.
NPR (Miles Parks) - Americans are split on wanting the National Guard to monitor voting, a new poll finds
Nearly half of Americans support the National Guard monitoring November's elections, potentially signaling an openness to the sort of nationalizing of elections that President Trump says he wants.
NPR (Jaclyn Diaz) - The Trump DOJ is giving guns back to felons, including one alleged fake elector
The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020.
WASHINGTONPOST (Lena H. Sun, Rachel Roubein) - RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers drop proposal to revisit covid-19 shot
Some members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel have publicly questioned the safety and manufacturing of the shots, including raising a debunked theory that DNA contaminants in the vaccines are harmful.
WASHINGTONPOST (Dan Diamond, Aaron Schaffer) - Democrats ask what happened to millions earmarked for Trump’s library
ABC, Meta, Paramount and X reportedly agreed to pay at least $63 million in settlements with the president. The original fund was dissolved last year.
JUSTTHENEWS (Eric J. Lyman) - Iran conflict death toll: 7 Americans, 11 Israelis, 1,230 Iranians
The death toll from Iran conflict rising, but U.S. and Israeli casualties are dwarfed by numbers from Iran and Lebanon
AXIOS (Brittany Gibson) - The contracting mess Noem's leaving behind at DHS
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is on track to leave dozens of pending contracts on her desk when she leaves office in three weeks, the legacy of a system she imposed to cut "waste, fraud and abuse," but that has stalled DHS programs. Why it matters: The backlog of contracts has left vendors waiting for payments and delayed projects such as President Trump 's push for mass deportations and the border wall, along with disaster relief under FEMA, Axios has learned. - "There's a mountain of backed-up contracts and invoices on her desk that the new guy will just have to deal with," a source familiar with the situation at DHS told Axios. - The backlog existed long before the partial government shutdown over DHS immigration policies…
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Secretary Of War Promises Most Intense Day Of Strikes, Sleeper Cell Warning - The Hill | NEWSNATION
Host Blake Burman discusses what is expected to be the "most intense" day of U.S. strikes on Iran. New video from CENTCOM shows U.S. forces eliminating Iranian Naval vessels, including more than 10 mine-laying boats. Meanwhile here at home, intelligence officials are warning about potential sleeper cells infiltrating the country.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Gen Z reacts to the Iran War
Generation Z has been reacting to the Iran war across social media in both memes and shared anxieties. Penelope Shinnick, Mia Kay Berry and Kloie Marks, three Gen Z Americans, join “Jesse Weber Live” and Berry says the war is costing her “a lot of anxiety.” #GenZ #Iran #IranWar "Jesse Weber Live" brings a fresh, fast-paced, and often unexpected take on the day’s headlines, diving into the biggest stories through the lens of legal expertise.