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Government shakeup continues; Ohtani leads MLB jersey sales

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  • On today's episode: Mass layoffs begin at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; there appears to be a deadlock in negotiations between Ukraine and Russia; and in Lithuania, three U.S. soldiers are found dead and another is missing.
  • Nonprofit groups and Democrats sue Trump administration over election executive order.
  • US sanctions 6 officials over erosion of Hong Kong autonomy. China threatens to counter.
  • Trump administration says it has deported 17 more ‘violent criminals’ to El Salvador.
  • Trump's reciprocal tariffs will overturn decades of trade policy.
  • Comic Amber Ruffin cut from White House correspondents' event after angering Trump team.
  • NASA's newly returned astronauts say they would fly on Boeing's Starliner capsule again.
  • Justice Department instructed to dismiss legal challenge to Georgia election law.
  • Judge allows release of some records in the Gene Hackman death investigation; blocks images of bodies.
  • Evacuations ordered as winds pose challenges for firefighters battling California blaze.
  • Musk-funded political group spends big and goes door to door in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
  • Wall Street swings again as the approach of Trump's 'Liberation Day' wallops stock markets worldwide.
  • 16 Tesla EVs are destroyed in a fire in Rome as Italian police investigate possible arson.
  • UConn and Texas punch their tickets back to the women’s Final Four, a projected high pick declares for the NBA Draft, a record-setting extension and lengthy suspension in baseball and a former NFL coach is headed to college.
  • Shohei Ohtani leads MLB jersey sales; he leads 6 Dodgers in the top 20.
  • Torpedo-shaped bats draw attention after Yankees hit team-record 9 homers in rout of Brewers.
  • France's antitrust watchdog fines Apple for problems with App Tracking Transparency.
  • Volcano begins erupting in southwestern Iceland after a nearby town and spa are evacuated.
  • A woman is rescued from rubble in Myanmar but hope is fading for more quake survivors.
  • Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian medics and buried them in a mass grave, UN says.

    • —The Associated Press

    About this program

    Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate.

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