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California’s Gavin Newsom comes under fire after signing a law dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” President Trump launches what he calls economic D-Day on Iran as the tariff war heats up again with Canada, and Enes Kanter Freedom is kicked out of a WNBA event as the league conti ...  Show more

Iran places a bounty on Barron Trump’s head, the U.S. sees the first deportation of Haitians since ending Temporary Protected status, and Gavin Newsom passes the bill being called the ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act.’ Get the facts first with Evening Wire. - - - Ep. 3055 - - - Today’s Spo ...  Show more

Today, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after a week of escalation over the future of Ukraine. Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly was in Ukraine earlier this week, expressing Canada's support for the country. But Ottawa Citizen ...  Show more

Ukraine continues to hold out against a Russian invasion, as the U.S. and its European allies debate military aid and banning Russian oil imports to further constrain the petrostate's economy. NPR's Ryan Lucas is reporting from Ukraine and shares how the people there are experien ...  Show more

In this week's episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Quincy Institute's Eurasia Program Director Anatol Lieven, an author on Russian and Ukraine, and the McCain Institute's Executive Director Evelyn Farkas, a former Pentagon official under President Obama, for a debate ...  Show more

The upsurge in fighting between pro-Russian separatist rebels and Ukrainian government forces has shown how little diplomatic leverage the west now appears to have with the Kremlin. There is an increasingly lively debate about whether the west should provide Kiev with arms to hel ...  Show more