Twice-daily newscasts from Keli and Hast — sourced reporting, structural framing, calm delivery. Morning drop at 6 AM Central, evening drop at 4 PM Central. Lead segments draw from The Rest of the Story (Ground News). Every drop archived with script, audio, and sources. Listen live →
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From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Tuesday, June 9. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with the sharpest-moving story of the day. U.S. Central Command says its forces have launched what it is calling…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Tuesday, June 9. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with breaking news out of the Middle East. President Trump says Iran shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter. Two crew…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Tuesday, June 9. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with a World Cup access dispute that has two versions in circulation. Iran's football federation says its allocation…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Monday, June 8. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in the Middle East, where the most consequential thread of the day runs through several stories at once. Israel and…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Monday, June 8. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with Iran. BBC World is reporting that Iran launched a strike on Israel over the weekend. BBC Persian editor Amir…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Monday, June 8. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in the southern Philippines. A magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck overnight, killing at least nineteen people. The quake…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Sunday, June 7. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with the sharpest developing story of the morning. Iran says it has begun what it is calling a full week of strikes on…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Sunday, June 7. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in the Middle East. Israel struck Beirut's southern suburbs overnight, with multiple explosions reported. Israel says…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Sunday, June 7. I'm Keli, with Hast. We begin in the Middle East. One hundred days into what multiple outlets are calling a regime-change war on Iran, two competing…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Saturday, June 6. I'm Keli, with Hast. We begin today with the date itself. Eighty-one years ago this morning, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. At…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Saturday, June 6. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with the war on Iran. One hundred days in, and the public numbers are not moving in the White House's favor. Analysts…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Saturday, June 6. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with an accountability story out of the United States. NPR has tracked a pattern of Filipino sailors who say they…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Friday, June 5. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start with a public health warning that is moving fast. Two separate outlets are reporting on the same CDC modeling, so let's…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Friday, June 5. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine exchanged 185 prisoners of war each yesterday, a significant swap that Russia says was…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Friday, June 5. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Texas. Christian Menefee, 38, has defeated incumbent U.S. Representative Al Green, 78, in a Democratic primary for a…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Thursday, June 4. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Washington. The SAVE America Act, a sweeping Republican election overhaul that President Trump publicly named his…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Thursday, June 4. I'm Keli, with Hast. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously this week that Hikma Pharmaceuticals did not infringe patents held by Amarin. The case…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Thursday, June 4. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Washington. The House voted this week to invoke the War Powers Act and direct President Trump to end US military…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Wednesday, June 3. I'm Keli, with Hast. Senate Republicans have stripped roughly one billion dollars earmarked for a new White House ballroom from the reconciliation…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Wednesday, June 3. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in the Middle East, where the diplomatic and military tracks are running in opposite directions simultaneously. In…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Tuesday, June 2. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Iran. Al Jazeera is reporting that attacks on desalination plants and other water infrastructure, attributed to the…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Tuesday, June 2. I'm Keli, with Hast. We start in Ukraine. Russian forces launched one of their largest combined missile and drone assaults in months overnight,…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Tuesday, June second. The time is four p.m. central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with a call between Trump and Netanyahu that's being read two…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Tuesday, June second. The time is six a.m. central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good morning. We're leading with a defense-bill story that moved quietly last week —…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Monday, June first. The time is four p.m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with what a federal judge just made public, and how one…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Monday, June first. The time is six a.m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Morning. We're leading with a story from our Ground News desk — California, November 2020, and…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Sunday, May thirty-first. The time is four p.m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with Cuba policy and the gap between what's been said in…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Sunday, May thirty-first. The time is six a.m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good morning. We're leading with a Persian Gulf story that shows how two governments can…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Saturday, May thirtieth. The time is four p.m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good afternoon. We're leading with a disclosure story out of Washington — one that shows…
Listen + read script →From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop. It's Saturday, May thirtieth. The time is six a.m. Central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Good morning. We're leading with a story about what happens when major legislation passes…
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