Kitchen Briefs

Michelle Glogovac
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Kitchen Briefs is a quick daily update on the headlines that matter. From her kitchen, Michelle Glogovac breaks down the news in three minutes or less, explaining what’s happening in politics, what it actually means, and what you should be paying attention to.

  1. 17h ago

    Kitchen Briefs - July 30, 2026 AM

    Kitchen Briefs - July 30, 2026 AM The IRGC is claiming an attack on the US military base in Kuwait. Two drone hangars and a fuel tank for an aircraft and military helicopters were set on fire and destroyed at the baseThe IRGC is claiming to have attacked Jordan’s al-Azraraq airbase and to have destroyed 3 US F-35 fighter jets, caused heavy damage to 3 others and have said they killed a number of enemy officers and technical and mechanical personnelIran has also struck two vessels, one was US owned at an Egyptian port. This is the first strike on EgyptKuwait says one person was killed in an Iranian strike of a building of a Chinese companyAn Israeli drone attack in northern Gaza has killed four more including 2 childrenUS forces bombed a building on Iran’s Qeshm Island killing a couple and their 2 year old child. An 11 and 7 year old were pulled from the rubble and are receiving medical careYesterday the US struck a deal with Lockheed Martin for a contract worth $58.6B to produce more Patriot interceptor missilesPoland is blaming Russia for firing a missile into its territory as Russia is unleashing deadly attacks on Ukraine with at least 8 killedThe vote to confirm acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has been delayed because Senator John Cornyn refuses to yieldUS Space Force awarded SpaceX $1.6B to launch 18 Falcon 9 missions from Vandenberg Space Force Base through 2027 The National Urban League released its annual “State of Black America” report today and says The American Dream is even further out of reach for Black Americans since the Civil Rights Movement thanks to the current administrationFlorida’s attorney general has launched an investigation into Dr. Fauci over his “lack of candor to Congress”

  2. 1d ago

    Kitchen Briefs - July 29, 2026 PM

    Kitchen Briefs - July 29, 2026 PM Iran confirms the US/Saudi attack killed at least 4 people affiliated with the IRGCThe Israeli military ordered an evacuation for a refugee camp in Gaza City and then struck it twiceOther Israeli strikes have killed 2 more PalestiniansDr. Fauci pleaded the 5th 100 times today. The committee is expected to vote next week on whether to hold him in contemptThe deadline passed on Monday for Trump to file a Supreme Court rehearing petition on birthright citizenshipAlex Jones is calling for Trump's immediate impeachment because of a social media post on April 7th Matthew Wingate, the government-relations director for defense and foreign policy at the Heritage Foundation tried to take a 9 mm gun magazine with 10 rounds in it through security into a Senate office building on FridayA reporter asked Epstein survivors how acting attorney general Todd Blanche has been condescending to themYesterday Marjorie Taylor Green put a ring on it in Vegas and married Brian GlennThe White House is not happy that John Mellencamp paused his concert over the weekend to call renaming the Gulf of Mexico was a stupid ideaRead more books

  3. 1d ago

    Kitchen Briefs - July 29, 2026 AM

    Kitchen Briefs - July 29, 2026 AM The US and Saudi Arabia conducted joint strikes against Iranian backed militias in Iraq killing at least 20Iran has said they’re firing missiles at the US base in JordanIran is reporting a US attack in northwestern IranOil prices are upUkraine says it hit two major Russian oil refineries More than 60,000 children have been orphaned in Gaza since October 2023Dr. Anthony Fauci is being questioned today by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee led by Rand PaulThere have been more than 100 aftershocks in JapanTrump is unveiling a $22.5B renovation plan for Washington Dulles airportThe Senate has confirmed Jay Clayton as the new National Intelligence DirectorActor Jared Leto has been accused of criminal sexual conduct by 10 womenTrump and the DOJ are asking the Supreme Court to toss out an $83M defamation verdict won by E. Jean CarrollElon Musk’s company xAI is suing Minnesota for banning AI nudification technologySenators Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff are urging the SEC to investigate Trump's fast feedThe absence of Mitch McConnell and death of Lindsey Graham are stalling the SAVE America ActBTS has been nominated for a grammy but the band has decided to boycott after the Grammys announced an Asian Pop categoryAPNews shares the new media ecosystem reshaping Democratic politics

  4. 2d ago

    Kitchen Briefs - July 28, 2026 PM

    Kitchen Briefs - July 28, 2026 PM Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister says Iran will take any action to control the Strait and has no plans on negotiating with the USSaudi Arabia air defences have intercepted and destroyed several drones launched from Iraqi territory attempting to target oil facilitiesOil prices are going down againNetanyahu says he had an excellent meeting with TrumpNetanyahu then declined to meet with ZelenskySenators John Cornyn and Thom Thillis have demanded that the anti-weaponization fund be formally killed to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney generalColt Gray, the suspect in the Georgia school shooting was sentenced to life without parole todayA new DHS rule took effect, allowing federal officers to refer asylum applicants directly to Immigration Judges without initial interviews ICE has begun arresting people with expired visas at airports, including spouses of American citizens and workers with pending status applicationsThe Energy Department selected Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Utah, and Idaho as potential hosts for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation CampusesThis administration has killed at least 221 people in 67 boat strikes and the DEA has assessed that cocaine flow hasn’t actually decreased at all. Boats have just taken a different routeA federal judge in Illinois ruled today that the state cannot offer in-state tuition to public colleges to students who are immigrants here illegallyThe DOJ spent $900K renovating its Washington headquarters which included cleaning, new light fixtures and 6 giant banners of TrumpThe president of FIFA announced today his plans to create a $20B company to run the World Cup with private investors and the Kushner brothersA video has gone viral of a 16 year old Ryder Williams, a lifeguard in Santa Cruz, California rescuing a 10 year old at Seabright Beach over the weekendAI companies, including Anthropic, are buying up used and rare physical books in bulk to scan for training data, then destroying them, exploiting a legal loophole that treats digitizing a purchased book as "transformative" fair use

  5. 2d ago

    Kitchen Briefs - July 28, 2026AM

    Kitchen Briefs - July 28, 2026 AM Trump threatened to use Iranian frozen assets to fix and replace any damage and Iran says any country using their frozen assets will not be allowed in the Strait of HormuzTrump took some time from posting on Truth Social to call into Fox News and say once again that if talks with Iran don’t go well, he could take out most of their bridges in less than one hour and knock out the power plants within a dayOman has sent a proposal to Iran for a joint regional mechanism to manage the Strait of Hormuz with voluntary feesIsrael says the US used Israeli bases to refuel and take off in recent weeks to carry out strikes on Iran because Iran is striking everywhere except IsraelIsrael’s Defence Minister said he has issued instructions to expand the scope of the military assault on the occupied West Bank3 more Palestinians were killed and 14 injured by Israeli attacks on GazaNetanyahu is meeting with Trump and also meeting separately with ZelenskyToday is the funeral for Lindsey GrahamA 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit south west Japan today and a shopping mall has collapsed trapping many peopleUganda has declared itself ebola free as the last patient was discharged in mid-JuneThe administration notified Congress last week that it intends to spend $175.8M to replace outdated and aging undersea telecommunications cables in the Caribbean and Central America to prevent China from moving inThe Federal Transit Administration hasn’t approved a single new infrastructure grant under the Capital Investments GrantsThe Tate brothers will spend at least the next two weeks in a US jail until their extradition hearing

  6. 3d ago

    Kitchen Briefs - July 27, 2026 PM

    Kitchen Briefs - July 27, 2026 PM 4 Iranian drones are targeting northern Iraq. Sources say that there are more than 10 US warplanes and drones flying over in response to the attacks which includes a gas field which supplies the majority of the region’s electricity. There has also been a series of explosions near the US consulate in ErbilIran’s health minister says the US attacks have killed 60 and injured 670Trump was given a microphone in Michigan todayPreviously unreleased documentary footage of Lindsay Graham show him celebrating the war in Iran and saying it was the best thing he’d ever doneTrump asked the Supreme Court today to allow the administration to move forward with implementing his executive order around mail in ballots Police now say there were actually 3 shooters in the Seattle Food Festival and one of them is among those deadA federal judge dismissed a lawsuit over the make up of the guy in the white house’s Religious Liberty Commission. The lawsuit argued the commission violates rules by excluding non-Judeo-Christian faith traditions and consists almost entirely of conservative Christians and one Orthodox Jewish rabbiTrump is demanding the Senate cancel their upcoming August break until they pass his SAVE America Act billMitch McConnell has been released from the hospital and moved to a rehab center but hasn’t been cleared for workGo leave the good podcasts a review and elevate them!A shout out to my friend Lina Patton for sending me this amazing hat. Check out her book, The Lake Club, which is already out and amazing. My current read is Full Throttle by J.K. Maclaren

  7. 3d ago

    Kitchen Briefs - July 27, 2026 AM

    Kitchen Briefs - July 27, 2026 AM Trump is claiming the US is deep in talks with Iran but his patience has run out and the talks will either go fast or not at all and if they don’t, the US will go back to very strong military actionTrump claimed Iran is begging for a deal yet today Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq all reported more drone attacksSaudi Arabia is reporting drone attacks launched from IraqThe chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, expressed concern over the depletion of air defence munitions according to an unnamed US official Another Palestinian has died due to an Israeli strike on central GazaGermany has just approved record arms exports to IsraelThree people were killed and at least 4 were injured in a shooting at the Seattle Food Festival over the weekendCNBC is reporting that court documents now show that federal officials admitted withholding billions of dollars in federal grants to states based solely on the fact that they did not vote for TrumpNetanyahu is meeting with Trump tomorrow at 11am eastern timeCarly Simon has revealed she has Parkinson’s and treated for skin cancerThe CEO of Cracker Barrel is stepping down next month

  8. 4d ago

    Kitchen Briefs - July 26, 2026

    Kitchen Briefs - July 26, 2026 Iranian media is saying a tanker exploded after hitting a naval mine in the Strait of HormuzIsrael says they have killed the Hamas drone commanderTrump has decided to pause strikes to allow for diplomacyOne woman has died and 29 were injured when a van drove into a crowd and the man then started stabbing people with a machete at the Berlin Pride parade in Germany. Authorities are saying it was an Islamic terrorist attack by a German citizen with Lebanese roots whom they’ve now shot and killedUkraine has attacked an Iranian tanker in the Caspian Sea and Iran says it was done at Israel’s behestBrazil has denied visas to two US State Department officials who were planning on questioning the country's election systemRussia took some satellite footage of US bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait on July 19 and 20th and gave the photos to Iran to plan strikes and then assess damageSeattle police are looking for 2 men who parachuted from the Space NeedleThe OpenAI agent that somehow crawled out of its sandbox also left notes for future versions of itself with instructions on how to break freeThe White House quietly updated their website this weekend re-adding the four service members who were killed last week and also adding 140 to the wounded listKaty Perry is expressing outrage over her song Firework being used in a White House tiktok video of the US striking IranTrump's posting all kinds of AI images to Lies Social including fake images of attacks on Iranian facilities and a number of images of him wearing 2028 hats

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Kitchen Briefs is a quick daily update on the headlines that matter. From her kitchen, Michelle Glogovac breaks down the news in three minutes or less, explaining what’s happening in politics, what it actually means, and what you should be paying attention to.

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    Michelle Glogovac
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    2026
  • Episodes
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