Israel launched a widespread wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Reuters has more.

Congress struck a deal for a temporary funding agreement to avoid a government shutdown for now. USA Today has the story.

A Texas medical school was leasing out body parts of unclaimed corpses, an NBC News investigation found. NBC’s Mike Hixenbaugh describes what the reporting revealed.

CBS News has what to know about the deadly shooting in Birmingham, Alabama.

Several senior campaign officials for North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson stepped down after CNN reported on past comments he made on a pornographic website.

NPR reports on how multiple Tufts University lacrosse players were hospitalized with a dangerous condition after a workout.

Sports mascots were very dude-coded. Then came Ellie the Elephant. The Washington Post tells her story.

Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.