Use of National Guard sets up legal clash; Rush announce reunion tour

On today's episode:

• Trump's use of the National Guard sets up a legal clash testing presidential power.
• Supreme Court rejects appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, imprisoned former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein.
• A divided Israel marks 2 years since Oct. 7 attack as war in Gaza grinds on and hostages languish.
• Hurricane Priscilla strengthens to a Category 2 storm as it runs along the Pacific coast of Mexico.
• Rush announce reunion tour five years after the death of drummer Neil Peart.
• ICE ads aim to lure local law enforcement officers to join President Trump's mass deportation efforts.
• Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from sending National Guard troops to Oregon.
• Republicans and Democrats at an impasse as government shutdown enters sixth day.
• The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on the human immune system.
• Tornado in North Dakota was the first at EF5 strength in a dozen years.
• Alabama's Ivey vows action after Montgomery shooting leaves 2 dead, 12 injured.
• Chicago and Illinois sue to stop Trump’s Guard deployment plan after Portland ruling.
• The US stock market keeps setting records as AI excitement keeps building.
• The Dodgers and Brewers move one win away from an NLCS showdown, a former No. 1 pick celebrates his 26th birthday with a game-sealing TD on Monday Night Football, a former NFL QB faces a felony charge after being stabbed over the weekend and the NHL’s top star gets a new contract on the eve of a new season.
• Trial underway over Angels' alleged role in baseball pitcher Tyler Skaggs' overdose death.
• Ukraine claims drone strikes on Russian ammo plant, oil terminal and weapons depot.
• Displaced, exhausted Palestinians in Gaza reflect on the possibility of a ceasefire as talks are held in Egypt.

—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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