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First: The nightmare is finally over for three Americans now back on US soil after the biggest prisoner exchange since the Cold War. We have new details on the painstaking negotiations that led to thi...

3 Aug 202440min

Americans Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan are in US custody after a massive prisoner swap with Russia. It involves 26 people and seven countries. Nothing close to this has happened since the end of t...

1 Aug 202452min

First: The Middle East is at another flashpoint as the world waits for Iran to retaliate against Israel, who it blames for killing a top Hamas leader on Iranian soil.   Plus: Rapper Megan Thee Stallio...

31 Jul 202438min

First: Vice President Kamala Harris and her allies are rolling out a new way to describe the Republican ticket: "just plain weird." Meanwhile, Donald Trump scrambles for new attack lines against his n...

29 Jul 202439min

What a difference a week makes. Last Friday, Republicans leaving their convention saw a win in November as a forgone conclusion. But is this just Kamala Harris' honeymoon phase, or can the vice presid...

26 Jul 202441min

Every presidential campaign eventually finds ways to take advantage of the cultural moment. Vice President Harris’s current moment in the viral sun happened as soon as she became the frontrunner of th...

25 Jul 202432min

First: Remember that flash of a moment when Donald Trump said he was going to be "nice?" He unsurprisingly and explicitly ditched that moments ago. But Kamala Harris made clear she's not pulling her o...

25 Jul 202441min

First: We reveal results of a brand new CNN poll, the first since Joe Biden exited the presidential race. What do voters think about the new Harris-Trump matchup?  Plus: Benjamin Netanyahu is on his w...

24 Jul 202437min