What A Day

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What A Day cuts through all the chaos and crimes to help you understand what matters and how you can fix it—all in just 20 minutes. Hosts Tre’vell Anderson, Priyanka Aribindi, Josie Duffy Rice, and Juanita Tolliver break down the biggest news of the day, share important stories you may have missed, and show you what “Fox & Friends” would sound like if it were hosted by people whose parents read to them as children. New episodes Monday through Friday at 5 a.m. EST.

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A Texas judge ruled Thursday that a woman can terminate her pregnancy because of a lethal abnormality in the fetus. It’s the first attempt in the country to use the courts to obtain an abortion since the end of Roe ...

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12.08.2023 Texas Grants Nation's First Court-Sanctioned Abortion A Texas judge ruled Thursday that a woman can terminate her pregnancy because of a lethal abnormality in the fetus. It’s the first attempt in the country to use the courts to obtain an abortion since the end of Roe ...
12.07.2023 Biden Delivers Billions More Student Debt Relief Senate Republicans blocked meaningful gun control once again Wednesday by stopping a Democratic measure that would have banned assault-style weapons. Unfortunately, the failed Congressional effort came on the same day as a mass shooting on the campus of the University ...
12.06.2023 Tommy Tubervillainy GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama finally backed down on Tuesday after single-handedly blocking nearly every single military promotion for almost a year. He released the vast majority of his holds, and shortly afterwards the Senate confirmed the promotions of ...
12.05.2023 SCOTUS Decides Fate Of Landmark Opioid Settlement The Biden administration is sounding the alarm to Congress about the need to pass a funding bill to support Ukraine in their war with Russia. White House budget official Shalanda Young sent a letter to party leaders in the House ...
12.04.2023 Hundreds Dead In Gaza After Truce Ends Hundreds of Palestinians were killed since fighting resumed after a weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas ended Friday morning. Israeli officials are also preparing for a ground invasion of the south of Gaza, and they ordered more residents to evacuate ...
12.01.2023 Fighting Resumes In Israel-Hamas War The weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas expired early Friday morning local time and combat operations resumed. Prior to that, Hamas released eight more hostages on Thursday for a total of more than 100. Israel that same day released another ...
11.30.2023 Good COP28, Bad COP28 The UN’s 28th Conference of the Parties, also called COP28, kicks off today in Dubai. The annual climate change conference is set to take place through December 12th with an estimated 70,000 people in attendance. We’re joined by Naveena Sadasivam, ...
11.29.2023 Trump Wants To Repeal Obamacare. Again. Donald Trump threatened to replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, if he wins the 2024 presidential election. Trump took to social media over the weekend to post that he is “seriously looking at alternatives” to it, and on Monday, ...
11.28.2023 Young Thug, Trump Vs. Georgia’s RICO Act Israel and Hamas both agreed on Monday to extend the current pause in fighting for another two days. Hamas released another 11 hostages as part of the deal, and in exchange Israel released 33 more Palestinians being held in prison. ...
11.27.2023 Hostages Released In The Israel-Hamas War Seventeen more hostages held by Hamas were released on Sunday under a temporary, four-day ceasefire agreement reached last week between Israel and Hamas. In total, 58 hostages were released over the first three days of the deal, and in return, ...
11.21.2023 Voting Rights Act Under Threat (Again) A federal appeals court on Monday issued a ruling that jeopardizes the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In a 2-1 decision, the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that private groups or individuals can’t sue under a key ...
11.20.2023 Closed Doors At OpenAI Israel, Hamas and the U.S. are close to an agreement to free some hostages held in Gaza, according to The Washington Post. The tentative deal, which is being brokered by the U.S., would involve a pause in fighting in exchange ...
11.17.2023 Israel-Hamas War Protests Intensify Family members of Israeli hostages held by Hamas are currently on a five-day march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with plans to end the march in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home. Meanwhile, a protest calling for a ceasefire ...
11.16.2023 Biden's San Francisco Mission President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping met on Wednesday for the first time in a year. Following their private conversations, it was announced that the U.S. and China will resume military-to-military communications, and the leaders also reached an ...
11.15.2023 GOP Goes WWE The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s bill to avoid a government shutdown. The measure passed with bipartisan support, and it now heads to the Senate for approval ahead of Saturday’s deadline to avert a shutdown. Republicans ...
11.14.2023 Strictly Scrutinizing The Ethics Code The Supreme Court announced its first-ever ethics code on Monday after pressure from Congress and the public. But it’s unclear how the code – signed by all nine justices – will be enforced. We’re joined by Leah Litman, co-host of ...
11.13.2023 The People's Stop Work Order Local organizers in Atlanta are set to hold a mass nonviolent community action today against Cop City — the 90-million-dollar police training complex slated to be built in the city’s South River Forest. We’re joined by Kamau Franklin, founder of ...
11.10.2023 Joe Manchin Jeopardizes Democratic Control Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election in 2024. Manchin’s decision to step down leaves Democrats in a bind and jeopardizes their narrow 51-49 Senate majority. The White House said on Thursday ...
11.09.2023 The GOP In The 305 The third GOP presidential debate took place in Miami last night with five hopefuls on stage. Meanwhile, Donald Trump skipped out and held a rally nearby in Hialeah, Florida. We’re joined by Leah Greenberg, co-founder and co-Executive Director of Indivisible, ...
11.08.2023 Abortion Rights Wins Elections Tuesday was Election Day in key battleground states. In Ohio, voters codified reproductive rights into the state’s constitution. And over in Kentucky, incumbent Democratic Governor Andy Beshear won reelection over Republican challenger Daniel Cameron. Heather Williams, interim president of the ...
11.07.2023 Trump Testified And It Was Chaos Israeli forces said they were closing in on Gaza City as of Monday night. Meanwhile, Palestinian health officials said more than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began. Israel said it will not agree to a ...
11.06.2023 In The Blinken of an Eye Israeli troops said they closed in on Gaza City, and Gaza appeared to be under yet another communications blackout on Sunday – the third in 10 days. Meanwhile, the conflict at the Israel-Lebanon border has gotten more deadly after an ...
11.03.2023 The Push For A Pause As Israeli troops enter Gaza City and the Palestinian death toll crosses 9,000 lives, the U.S. is pushing for a humanitarian pause in the war between Israel and Hamas. The GOP-led House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that ...
11.02.2023 Exit to Egypt The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt opened on Wednesday for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war began. The move comes after a deal was reached this week to allow foreign nationals, aid workers, and some injured Palestinians ...
11.01.2023 The Tragedy of War, Made Worse Israel confirmed that an airstrike targeting a top Hamas commander hit a densely populated refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing at least 50 people and wounding hundreds more. The attack raises fears that Israel’s continued push into the enclave will ...
10.31.2023 Not On My Ballot As Israel continues its air and ground offensive into Gaza, its military says it has freed an IDF soldier who was captured by Hamas on October 7th. Meanwhile, Hamas released a video of three other Israeli hostages – Prime Minister ...
10.30.2023 The Global Plea For Peace Gaza’s Health Ministry says that over 8,000 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas. Israel has since announced it has entered the “next stage” of its operations into Gaza, after sending in more ...
10.27.2023 A Dark Day For Maine A manhunt is underway in Maine for the gunman behind two shootings in Maine. Eighteen people were killed and thirteen others were injured Wednesday evening, in what has become the deadliest mass killing in the U.S. this year. As the ...
10.26.2023 The Real House Speaker of D.C. Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana is the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, ending a 22-days of GOP in-fighting since Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s ouster. While he managed to earn the support of both “moderate” and far-right Republicans, Johnson has ...
10.25.2023 Never Have I Emmer The whirlwind saga to choose the next House speaker continues. After three rounds of secret votes late Tuesday night, House Republicans nominated Rep. Mike Johnson as their latest contender. The move came after Rep. Tom Emmer dropped out of the ...
10.24.2023 The War Next Door Two more hostages held captive by Hamas were released on Monday, though Israel says more than 200 others are still being held by the militant group. Meanwhile, officials in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes have now killed over 5,000 people in ...
10.23.2023 The Worst People for the Worst Job Over the weekend, the first trucks containing much-needed humanitarian aid crossed into Gaza; hours later, Hamas, through the Qatari government, released two American hostages who were captured while visiting Israel. Meanwhile, fighting has intensified between Israeli troops and Hezbollah at ...
10.20.2023 All Talk And No Speaker Republicans have failed, again, to select a new House speaker. Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio – the far-right Republican who’s already lost two full floor votes – said he will continue his bid for the role, despite failing to convince ...
10.19.2023 An All-Consuming Rage President Joe Biden touched down in Israel on Wednesday in a show of support for a nation in mourning – but also warned against the human cost of being swept up by wartime rage. He also confirmed that Israel agreed ...
10.18.2023 Biden's High-Wire Act As President Biden prepared to visit Israel, a hospital in Gaza City was hit by a devastating blast Tuesday, killing at least 500 people. Hamas blamed it on an Israeli airstrike, though Israel denied any involvement. Hours later, the White ...
10.17.2023 Reopening Gaza's Lifeline President Biden will travel to Israel tomorrow. The high-stakes visit is meant to be a show of solidarity with Israel – while also sending a message to other countries in the region to keep the conflict with Hamas from escalating. ...
10.16.2023 The Deepening Crisis in Gaza As Israel continues to gear up for its anticipated ground invasion of Gaza, diplomats with the United States, Egypt, and other countries are scrambling to avert a larger humanitarian crisis. Israel has given repeated orders for Gazans to evacuate south ...
10.13.2023 The Fact of the Matter Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel on Thursday to show support for the country, following Hamas’ attack over the weekend. He also called on Israel to exercise restraint as it continues its airstrikes on Gaza. Meanwhile, the United ...
10.12.2023 The View From Tel Aviv As Israel sends thousands of troops to the border with Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to form an emergency war cabinet with members of the country’s political opposition. It comes as Israel continues to pound the Palestinian ...
10.11.2023 Not Some Distant Tragedy The devastation from the war between Israel and Hamas continues to unfold. As of Tuesday, nearly 2,000 people combined have been killed in Israel and Gaza, with many more injured. President Biden confirmed that at least 14 Americans are among ...
10.10.2023 Israel Declares War on Hamas At least 1,500 people have been killed in the days since Hamas, the Palestinian armed group that controls Gaza, launched a surprise attack against Israel. Israel has since declared war, and vowed to launch a "total" siege on Gaza. Meanwhile, ...
10.09.2023 SCOTUS Is Back! Term Preview from Strict Scrutiny *What A Day will be back with a new episode Tuesday, October 10th* It's the start of a new Supreme Court term... and the start of Strict Scrutiny's fifth season! While the cases ahead may seem technical and boring, they’re ...
10.06.2023 Putting Alabama On The Map Federal judges chose a new congressional map for Alabama on Thursday, after a major, two year legal fight. The final, court-approved map gives Black Alabamians more political power, and could also give Democrats an edge in 2024. Talks between SAG-AFTRA ...
10.05.2023 Reading Is Fundamental, Honey Republicans remain divided over who should lead their delicate House majority after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker. A vote for his replacement is set for next week – and so far, at least three Republicans have signaled that they ...
10.04.2023 Kevin Knows I'm Miserable Now In an unprecedented move led by far-right Republicans, Kevin McCarthy was voted out of his job as Speaker of the House. He later said he would not seek the position again, leaving the House GOP fractured and scrambling to find ...
10.03.2023 Introducing Laphonza Butler A testy and defiant Donald Trump showed up to court yesterday in Manhattan, for the first day of his civil fraud trial. The former president called the suit, brought by New York attorney general Letitia James, a “witch hunt,” though ...
10.02.2023 Shutdown, Swerved Just hours before the Saturday night deadline, a bill to fund the government through mid-November passed both chambers of Congress and was signed by President Biden. The bill – which ensures the federal government can keep paying its workers for ...
09.29.2023 Shut Up Or Shut Down Republicans held their first hearing Thursday in their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The six-hour hearing before the House Oversight Committee tried to make the case that the president benefitted from his son's business dealings – even though the ...
09.28.2023 A Time For Chaos The second 2024 GOP presidential debate took place yesterday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The pool of candidates was smaller compared to the last round, but it wasn’t any less chaotic. Erin Ryan, host of ...
09.27.2023 Capitalism, Explained Capitalism is having a moment in our current political discourse. And believe it or not, we haven't always been so quick to openly bash – or defend – it. Noel King, co-host of Vox Media's Today, Explained podcast, and her ...

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What A Day episodes:

Texas Grants Nation's First Court-Sanctioned Abortion

Biden Delivers Billions More Student Debt Relief

Tommy Tubervillainy

SCOTUS Decides Fate Of Landmark Opioid Settlement

Hundreds Dead In Gaza After Truce Ends

Fighting Resumes In Israel-Hamas War

Good COP28, Bad COP28

Trump Wants To Repeal Obamacare. Again.

Young Thug, Trump Vs. Georgia’s RICO Act

Hostages Released In The Israel-Hamas War

Voting Rights Act Under Threat (Again)

Closed Doors At OpenAI

Israel-Hamas War Protests Intensify

Biden's San Francisco Mission

GOP Goes WWE

Strictly Scrutinizing The Ethics Code

The People's Stop Work Order

Joe Manchin Jeopardizes Democratic Control

The GOP In The 305

Abortion Rights Wins Elections

Trump Testified And It Was Chaos

In The Blinken of an Eye

The Push For A Pause

Exit to Egypt

The Tragedy of War, Made Worse

Not On My Ballot

The Global Plea For Peace

A Dark Day For Maine

The Real House Speaker of D.C.

Never Have I Emmer

The War Next Door

The Worst People for the Worst Job

All Talk And No Speaker

An All-Consuming Rage

Biden's High-Wire Act

Reopening Gaza's Lifeline

The Deepening Crisis in Gaza

The Fact of the Matter

The View From Tel Aviv

Not Some Distant Tragedy

Israel Declares War on Hamas

SCOTUS Is Back! Term Preview from Strict Scrutiny

Putting Alabama On The Map

Reading Is Fundamental, Honey

Kevin Knows I'm Miserable Now

Introducing Laphonza Butler

Shutdown, Swerved

Shut Up Or Shut Down

A Time For Chaos

Capitalism, Explained

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