Israel renewed the violence in Gaza, launching airstrikes that killed more than 400 people after negotiations with Hamas on a phase two of a ceasefire fell through. The U.S. is deporting Venezuelan migrants to prisons in El Salvador without any legal oversight or due process, abandoning the legal process. And Trump and Putin are calling to talk about a ceasefire in Ukraine while Europe works to build defense capacity for itself.

Then, in Have You Heard Headlines, Erin & Jake go through the rest of the week’s stories to keep you in the know about what else is happening out there in the world.

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Erin Flanagan is a former U.S. Coast Guard intelligence officer and Agence France-Presse digital investigations journalist.

Jacob Shropshire is an editorial intern at Worldcrunch and the managing editor of Peacock Media at the American University of Paris. He spent two years working for Democratic political campaigns in the U.S.
Liam Kuhns provided editing assistance for the podcast.