Today Explained

Japan is set to make history, as Sanae Takaichi is on track to become the country's first-ever female prime minister. On October 4, 2025, Takaichi, a conservative lawmaker, won the leadership election for the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), paving her way for the nation's top job. A parliamentary vote is expected in mid-October. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreak...

Nine months after Bashar al-Assad's overthrow, Syria's transitional government has initiated political reforms, including staging the country's first parliamentary election since the regime's collapse. However, the current political landscape is far from a true and fair democracy due to institutional constraints, ongoing security threats, and deep-seated societal divisions. Become a supporter of t...

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve update news entire the world!

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve update news entire the world!

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve update news entire the world!

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve update news entire the world!

Don’t miss our latest episodes! Please follow me to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support this podcast to serve update news entire the world! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve up...

Don’t miss our latest episodes! Please follow me to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support this podcast to serve update news entire the world! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve up...

Don’t miss our latest episodes! Please follow me to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support this podcast to serve update news entire the world! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve up...

Don’t miss our latest episodes! Please follow me to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support this podcast to serve update news entire the world! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve up...

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve update news entire the world!

The Pentagon plans to impose strict nondisclosure agreements and random polygraph testing for scores of people in its headquarters, including many top officials, according to two people familiar with the proposal and documents obtained by The Washington Post, escalating Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war on leakers and internal dissent. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.co...

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve update news entire the world!

From attacking law firms and the press to using the Department of Justice to target political opponents to hiking H-1B visa application fees to $100,000, the Trump administration seems to be flouting rules and laws purposefully, Fareed says. It is eroding America’s system of checks and balances, Fareed argues, and it is showing the weaknesses of America’s constitutional system and its leaders. Bec...

Police in North Carolina have released multiple 911 calls made after 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed on the Charlotte light rail, in which witnesses expressed shock at the unprovoked attack."This man just  stabbed this woman for no reason," a distraught witness said in one of six calls released by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department on Wednesday. Become a supporter of this p...

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve update news entire the world!

Rescuers used backhoes and sniffer dogs to look for survivors in collapsed houses and other damaged buildings in the central Philippines on Wednesday, a day after an earthquake killed at least 69 people. The death toll was expected to rise from the magnitude-6.9 earthquake that hit at about 10 p.m. Tuesday and trapped an unspecified number of residents in the hard-hit city of Bogo and outlying rur...

The federal government shut down on Wednesday, as Congress failed to extend its annual appropriations. Now, food will go uninspected, Superfund sites uncleaned, and IRS helplines unanswered Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support...

Don’t miss our latest episodes! Please follow me to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support this podcast to serve update news entire the world! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve up...

This US federal shutdown was triggered because Congress failed to pass a last-minute funding bill, called a continuing resolution (CR).A continuing resolution is needed when Congress is unable to complete their spending bills - which provide funding for around 25% of all government operations - on time. Don’t miss our latest episodes! Please follow me to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’...

President Trump spoke today before the nation’s military, touting his decisions to deploy the National Guard to major U.S. cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also delivered a series of strange and embarrassing remarks, sparking fresh calls for his resignation. Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) and Maj. Gen. William Enyart (Ret.) join The Weeknight to respond. Don’t miss our latest episodes! Please...

Don’t miss our latest episodes! Please follow me to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support this podcast to serve update news entire the world! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve up...

Mayor Brandon Johnson, Gov. JB Pritzker and other officials have repeatedly denounced Trump’s National Guard deployment plans, saying it would be unconstitutional and an abuse of federal power. Don’t miss our latest episodes! Please follow me to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support this podcast to serve update news entire the world! Become a supporter of this podcast: http...

Mohawk Institute survivor Roberta Hill, who spent five years at the former Indian Residential School in Brantford, called it the saddest time of her life. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/today-explained--6659607/support . Don’t miss our latest episodes! follow us to stay updates with fresh news everyday. Let’s keep the support our podcast to serve update news e...

Hamas has said it will respond to Gaza peace plan laid out by the US and Israel tomorrow after US President Donald Trump said the group had “three or four days” to respond.“We’re just waiting for Hamas,” the American leader had said on Tuesday. “Hamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it’s not, it’s going to be a very sad end.” Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.c...