{"podcast":{"title":"Morning Announcements","slug":"morning-announcements-1365801","podcast_index_feed_id":1365801,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BMLLC2929394709","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/67cb16b0-4547-11eb-9ed3-6b741810f44a/image/55a1491a758283a582368bc107960e04.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Betches","episode_count":1384,"summary":"Morning Announcements is your daily news rundown from Betches News--because the world’s a mess, and someone’s gotta explain it. Every morning, Betches co-founder and host Sami Sage cuts through the chaos to break down what actually matters, one unhinged headline at a time. All in under 10 minutes, so you can stay informed without spiraling.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T18:20:26.430593+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morning-announcements-1365801"},"episode":{"title":"Friday, July 10th, 2026 - ICE Kills Yet Again, Ken Paxton Voted Illegally, Walmart Is Finally Cutting Prices","slug":"friday-july-10th-2026-ice-kills-yet-again-ken-paxton-voted-illegally-walmart-is-finally-cutting-prices","published_at":"2026-07-10T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morning-announcements-1365801/friday-july-10th-2026-ice-kills-yet-again-ken-paxton-voted-illegally-walmart-is-finally-cutting-prices","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morning-announcements-1365801","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/titlepl.us/redirect.mp3/BETCHES/3/traffic.megaphone.fm/BMLLC3534538050.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/titlepl.us/redirect.mp3/BETCHES/3/traffic.megaphone.fm/BMLLC3534538050.mp3","summary":"Today's Headlines: Mitch McConnell is still missing with zero health updates, Elaine Chao's spokesperson says she left for China two days before he was hospitalized and has since returned. Mitch’s absence is now actively complicating Senate business since he sits on the Appropriations Committee that needs to pass a government funding bill by September 30th — so the republicans need him conscious and present, which remains unconfirmed. In other news, The Secret Service apparently made Trump swap planes leaving Turkey out of \"an abundance of caution\" over Iran escalation concerns about how quickly the Qatari hand-me-down was retrofitted, despite Trump insisting the plane is fine. Meanwhile the  White House columns are now covered in a tarp printed to look like the White House, which is a real thing that exists. On the Immigration beat, ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national with no criminal record who had lived in the US for decades and was on his way to work, with federal officials claiming self-defense and no footage to back it up — and Mexico is now reportedly planning to file criminal complaints in the US over multiple ICE custody deaths, because apparently diplomatic complaints weren't getting through. In Texas, Ken Paxton, AG and Republican Senate candidate who literally just created a voter fraud tip line, appears to have voted at an address he hadn't lived at for over a year across six elections including the primary that made him the Republican nominee — information that only surfaced because of his divorce filings — and spent July 4th weekend in England with his alleged mistress, patriotic. On the cost of living beat, Walmart is cutting grocery prices by 12%, DeBeers is making its deepest diamond price cuts ever now that lab-grown d…","meta_description":"Today's Headlines: Mitch McConnell is still missing with zero health updates, Elaine Chao's spokesperson says she left for China two days before he was ho…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":599,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/morning-announcements-1365801/episodes/friday-july-10th-2026-ice-kills-yet-again-ken-paxton-voted-illegally-walmart-is-finally-cutting-prices/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morning-announcements-1365801/friday-july-10th-2026-ice-kills-yet-again-ken-paxton-voted-illegally-walmart-is-finally-cutting-prices.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}