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 Jul 21, 2023
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USA TODAY’s daily news podcast, The Excerpt (formerly 5 Things), brings you a curated mix of the most important headlines seven mornings a week. We also deliver special deep-dive episodes on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons on the most compelling topics in culture, entertainment, sports, politics, and more. Give us fifteen minutes a day, we'll give you all of the headlines, none of the chaos. Hosted by Taylor Wilson and Dana Taylor.  

Episode Date
Hamas says it will allow hostage aid if Israel halts airstrikes, opens permanent humanitarian corridors
Aug 04, 2025
Escape rooms to theme parks: immersive entertainment is booming
Aug 03, 2025
Trump fires head of labor statistics bureau after weak jobs report
Aug 02, 2025
Trump signs order for sweeping new tariffs on countries across the world
Aug 01, 2025
SPECIAL | Attempt to fix California's severe housing crisis offers lessons to U.S.
Jul 31, 2025
US to set 15% tariff on South Korean imports under new deal
Jul 31, 2025
SPECIAL | Why are ICE agents hiding behind masks?
Jul 30, 2025
Tsunami waves reach Hawaii and West Coast hours after magnitude 8.8 earthquake
Jul 30, 2025
Starvation stalks Gaza
Jul 29, 2025
US and EU reach trade deal
Jul 28, 2025
Transgender athletes in college sports are rare, despite outsized political attention
Jul 27, 2025
Trump arrives in Scotland for golf and trade talks
Jul 26, 2025
Israel and US recall teams from Gaza truce talks; violence near aid distribution centers continues
Jul 25, 2025
SPECIAL | Insomnia is a global epidemic. How do we fix it?
Jul 24, 2025
Columbia University to pay $200 million fine in new agreement with Trump administration
Jul 24, 2025
SPECIAL | Elon Musk wants to start a third party but it will take more than just money
Jul 23, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson to shut down House early amid Jeffrey Epstein drama
Jul 23, 2025
'Flood' of ICE agents is coming to cities run by Democrats, according to the White House
Jul 22, 2025
Nobel laureates plea for diplomacy to prevent nuclear war
Jul 21, 2025
How to navigate a job market transformed by AI
Jul 20, 2025
Can Trump calm MAGA's fury by releasing more Epstein records?
Jul 19, 2025
House passes Trump's cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid
Jul 18, 2025
SPECIAL | Nature is the medicine: Hospitals are catching on
Jul 17, 2025
Senate passes aid, public broadcasting cuts
Jul 17, 2025
SPECIAL | SkinnyTok is now banned. Its dangerous influence persists.
Jul 16, 2025
Senate Republicans weigh billions of dollars in spending cuts
Jul 16, 2025
Supreme Court lets Trump fire hundreds of Education Department workers and dismantle the agency
Jul 15, 2025
Americans' views on immigration take a positive swing
Jul 14, 2025
Caitlin Clark has changed women's sports forever
Jul 13, 2025
Grim reality looms as search for missing Texas flood victims continues
Jul 12, 2025
Trump at odds with MAGA movement on multiple fronts
Jul 11, 2025
SPECIAL | Eco-anxiety is on the rise
Jul 10, 2025
Trump tax bill supercharges Coast Guard’s Arctic icebreaker fleet
Jul 10, 2025
SPECIAL | Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is now law: Who are the winners and losers?
Jul 09, 2025
Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with large-scale staff cuts for now
Jul 09, 2025
104 dead as hard-hit areas in Texas face new flooding risks
Jul 08, 2025
Death toll climbs in Texas flooding, children still missing from all-girls camp
Jul 07, 2025
Brain-computer interfaces: Unlocking the potential of man and machine
Jul 06, 2025
At least 24 dead, over 20 children missing from summer camp in 'catastrophic' Texas flood
Jul 05, 2025
House passes Trump's megabill
Jul 04, 2025
Chatbot therapy? Available 24/7 but users beware.
Jul 03, 2025
House clears key hurdle on tax megabill
Jul 03, 2025
Can shared public spaces bridge the American divide?
Jul 02, 2025
Senate passes Trump's big bill; House battle is next
Jul 02, 2025
Senate plods along as Republicans negotiate key parts of Trump's bill
Jul 01, 2025
Senators to begin morning vote on Trump's major tax, Medicaid, border bill
Jun 30, 2025
Victims retraumatized and perpetrators glorified: The ethical reckoning of true crime
Jun 29, 2025
Supreme Court wraps term with decisions on birthright citizenship, Obamacare and more
Jun 28, 2025
Supreme Court sides with South Carolina in effort to cut Planned Parenthood funding
Jun 27, 2025
SPECIAL | LGBTQ+ pride under pressure: Fighting back, then and now
Jun 26, 2025
Trump says US, Iranian officials to hold talks after bombing of nuclear sites
Jun 26, 2025
SPECIAL | Record heat, a climate reckoning: How will humans respond?
Jun 25, 2025
US strikes failed to destroy Iran's nuclear sites, according to intelligence report
Jun 25, 2025
Israel says Iran violates ceasefire, orders new strikes
Jun 24, 2025
SPECIAL | Does the US need a Golden Dome air defense system?
Jun 23, 2025
Trump floats regime change after strikes on Iran
Jun 23, 2025
New music documentaries rock the big screen at Tribeca
Jun 22, 2025
Israel says it killed Iran commander as both sides attack
Jun 21, 2025
Trump to decide on US role in Israel-Iran conflict within 2 weeks
Jun 20, 2025
SPECIAL | Rethinking the American dream: Trade schools vs. college degrees
Jun 19, 2025
Trump says US 'may' or 'may not' strike Iran
Jun 19, 2025
SPECIAL | One immigrant's story of what it means to be undocumented
Jun 18, 2025
Pentagon sends warplanes, aircraft carrier to Middle East as Iran-Israel conflict continues
Jun 18, 2025
Trump leaves G7 early, urges everyone in Tehran to evacuate 'before it is too late'
Jun 17, 2025
BONUS | Opinion: What do you want your dad to know?
Jun 16, 2025
Assassination suspect arrested after fatal attack on Minnesota lawmakers
Jun 16, 2025
For those with crypto wealth, beware the wrench attack
Jun 15, 2025
Iran launches waves of missiles at Israel in response to strikes
Jun 14, 2025
Israel launches strikes against Iran as nuclear program talks falter
Jun 13, 2025
SPECIAL | President Trump is on a pardon spree
Jun 12, 2025
Democratic governors to describe resistance to federal immigration enforcement at 'sanctuary' hearing
Jun 12, 2025
SPECIAL | Alligators: Our apex predator allies against climate change
Jun 11, 2025
Curfew enacted for parts of LA as protests spread to other cities
Jun 11, 2025
Trump administration deploys Marines to Los Angeles
Jun 10, 2025
BONUS | Opinion: What does Pride month mean to the LGBTQ+ community in 2025?
Jun 09, 2025
Downtown LA declared 'unlawful assembly'; Newsom to sue over National Guard deployment
Jun 09, 2025
They led the fight for marriage equality
Jun 08, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia charged with migrant smuggling after return from El Salvador
Jun 07, 2025
Musk-Trump alliance craters
Jun 06, 2025
SPECIAL | At this year's NATO Summit the stakes couldn't be higher
Jun 05, 2025
Elon Musk tries to nuke Trump's GOP tax plan
Jun 05, 2025
SPECIAL | AI in the classroom: Cheating, learning, and the new academic gray zone
Jun 04, 2025
Boulder attack suspect’s family detained by ICE
Jun 04, 2025
Suspect charged with federal hate crime in Boulder attack
Jun 03, 2025
BONUS | Opinion: Is Caitlin Clark improving women's sports for the better or worse?
Jun 02, 2025
8 injured in attack on Colorado event calling for release of Israeli hostages
Jun 02, 2025
Is artistic expression a bedrock of our Constitution?
Jun 01, 2025
Trump gives Musk an Oval Office sendoff
May 31, 2025
Appeals Court allows Trump to keep tariffs while appeal plays out
May 30, 2025
SPECIAL | A potential new treatment for Parkinson's shows early promise
May 29, 2025