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Vice President JD Vance said Monday aboard Air Force Two that he will not endorse Benjamin Netanyahu's re-election, breaking publicly with Trump's "Complete and Total Endorsement" of the Israeli prime minister. Alex and Jordan unpack Vance's exact words, the Orbán precedent, and the timing alongside Defense Secretary Hegseth's unannounced visit to Israel.

At least four people were killed and 27 wounded in Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's Kyiv region over the past day, per Ukrainian officials, following a Russian barrage on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Alex and Jordan cover Zelensky's warning that more than half a million people are without power, heat and water — and the envoys expected in Oslo for peace talks.

A New York Times investigation of newly unsealed federal court documents raises the question of whether OJ Simpson had an accomplice who helped dispose of the murder weapon, which was never found after the 1994 killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Alex and Jordan walk through the allegations around informant Joseph "Joey" Ippolito — and why prosecutors and legal analysts urge caution.

Judge Ana Reyes grilled DOJ lawyer Stanley Woodward in a Tuesday hearing over the Trump administration's destruction of trees at East Potomac Park in Washington to make way for a golf course, after refusing to recuse herself from the case. Alex and Jordan walk through the hearing, plus the reported Grenell-Habba dispute over a $17 million transfer and the race among Trump staffers to hire lawyers.

Nvidia-backed Nscale is reportedly in talks to sell Anthropic a second roughly $45 billion tranche of computing power at its Monarch campus in West Virginia, with Bloomberg reporting the talks Monday and Reuters confirming them. Alex and Jordan unpack the 460-megawatt second building, Anthropic's right of first refusal on a third, and why investors are nervous about AI infrastructure debt.

The federal government has reportedly banned the Chinese AI model DeepSeek from government devices, a fresh escalation in the U.S.–China tech decoupling, according to Tuesday's report. Alex and Jordan discuss the data-security concerns behind the move and why the story is still single-sourced.

A former OpenAI engineer, Abdulrahman Alfozan, was denied bail Monday after prosecutors alleged he planted a hidden listening device in an executive conference room and was in "frequent communication" with a member of the Saudi royal family. Alex and Jordan walk through the toilet-paper-wrapped recorder, the "Riyadh tasks" note, and why prosecutors call it a national security matter.

The Social Security Administration announced last week a 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment for 2027 — the largest since 2023 — lifting the average retired worker's check by about $75 to roughly $2,170. Alex and Jordan unpack how the COLA is calculated, whether it keeps up with inflation, and what AARP says it means for retirees.

DHS said Monday that Temporary Protected Status for Ukrainians and Sudanese will continue "for now" after protections were set to expire that day, with a final decision still pending. Alex and Jordan explain who is covered, the missed statutory deadline that may trigger an automatic extension, and how this interim reprieve compares to the administration's broader TPS crackdown.

The Justice Department announced charges Monday against 28 lawful permanent residents in California for fraudulent voter registration and illegal voting, 15 days before the November 3 midterms. Alex and Jordan break down "Operation Protect the Vote," California's pushback on the federal noncitizen list, and why criminal charges mark a new escalation.