Sharon Reich-Garson

a crescendo in the war in Ukraine, with Russia launching one of its biggest missile and drone attacks on Kyiv.

Several people were killed as Moscow pounded apartment blocks in the capital.

In the south of the country, it targeted energy facilities.

The barrage comes after Ukraine hit on a black seaport, which effectively took out 2% of the world's global oil supply.

Reuters editor at large Mike Collett-White has recently returned from covering the war in Ukraine.

Trump's war of words with the BBC has escalated.

He's now threatening to sue the British broadcaster for $5 billion over the edit of his speech.

The BBC has apologized, but rejects that the president has a defamation case.

Trump hasn't filed the papers just yet, but today's episode of On Assignment, our sister podcast, explores the legal merits of any such suit.

Legal reporter Jack Queen joins host Jonah Green

You can listen to On Assignment on your favorite podcast platforms.

We'll put a link in today's pod description.

The US government is back in business after the longest shutdown in US history.

Flights are resuming, food assistance is flowing again, and paychecks are coming for more than a million workers.

But the fight that triggered it all, the Affordable Care Act subsidies, isn't resolved.

They expire in December, and without them, 24 million Americans are facing massive premium hikes.

Democrats are still hopeful that they can extend the subsidies, given a commitment by Senate Republicans to take up the issue.

But Republicans say Democrats are just propping up a dysfunctional system.

I spoke to national affairs reporter Nathan Lane, who traveled to West Virginia, one of the nation's most reliably conservative states, where he says this could be the issue one Republican candidate makes his own in 2026.

The Louvre jewel heist sent shockwaves globally.