Top News Headlines

Cosmo Good afternoon and welcome in. [] It's Monday, August seventeenth, twenty twenty-six, and we've got a compact rundown for you today. []

Carrie We do, and I want to be straight with you up front. [] The national wire came in thin for us this cycle. []

Cosmo It really did. [] A lot of what landed on the national desk was newsletter promotion and advertising material rather than reporting. [c][e]

Carrie The Washington Times, for instance, was pushing a special advertising supplement on American energy. [c] That's a paid section, not a news story, and we're not going to dress it up as one. [c]

Cosmo Right. [] We'd rather tell you the cupboard was bare than invent something to fill the minute. []

Carrie So there's no national headline today that clears the bar. [] Let's move to where we do have real reporting. []

Cosmo Overseas, and this one is heavy. [] An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon killed a Hezbollah member named Ali al-Haj Hassan, along with his wife and four of their children. [d]

Carrie Six people in one family. [d] One combatant, and five who were not. [d]

Cosmo The strike came on Saturday, August fifteenth. [d] The funeral was held the very next day, Sunday, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. [d]

Carrie And the coverage we saw led with the grief rather than the military detail. [d] The picture that carried the story was a woman mourning at that funeral. [d]

Cosmo Leading with the grief is a deliberate editorial choice, and it tells you something about how this campaign is being received on the ground. []

Carrie It does. [] And the turnaround from strike to burial was about twenty-four hours. [d]

Cosmo Today's material doesn't give us a picture of the wider conflict, so we'll leave it there rather than speculate. []

Carrie Closer to home now. [] Utah has a genuine development in a case that's been open a long while. [j]

Cosmo This is the Saratoga Springs murders. [j] A mother and her son, killed back on March twenty-eighth of twenty twenty-five. [j]

Carrie And police have made an arrest. [j] A seventeen-year-old was taken into custody on Friday and booked into a juvenile detention center. [j]

Cosmo Detectives have sent two counts of first-degree murder to the Utah County Attorney's Office for review. [j]

Carrie So the charges aren't formally filed yet. [j] The prosecutor has one big decision to make first. [j]

Cosmo Whether to charge this teenager as a juvenile or as an adult. [j]

Carrie That decision is the whole ballgame. [] It changes the possible sentence, and it changes where the case is heard. []

Cosmo Nearly seventeen months from the killings to an arrest. [j] That's a long stretch for a family in Utah County waiting on answers. []

Carrie And we should expect that charging decision to be the next real news out of this one. []

Cosmo A short show today, and that's the honest version of it. []

Carrie When the material is thin, we'd rather give you two real stories than thirty minutes of filler. []

Cosmo We'll be back tomorrow. [] Thanks for listening. []

Cosmo Good afternoon and welcome in. [] It's Sunday, August sixteenth, twenty twenty-six, and this is Top News Headlines. []

Carrie I want to level with our listeners right at the top. [] Our national feed came back thin today. []

Cosmo It did. [] A lot of what landed was newsletter signup pages and donation banners rather than reporting. [e][i] So we're only going to tell you what we can actually stand behind. []

Carrie Here's what did come through. [] The Washington Times ran a special section called American Energy Unleashed. [c] That's a sponsored supplement, not straight news, and the contents never reached us. [c]

Cosmo So we flag it and move on. [] The other national item was a headline with no story attached to it. [] The subject was the leftward drift of the Democratic Party, and the framing was that socialists are rising while voters want moderates. []

Carrie That's a genuinely interesting fight inside the party. [] But a headline is all we have. [] No names, no polling, no vote counts. []

Cosmo And we're not filling that in from memory. [] If we didn't get the facts, you don't get invented ones. []

Carrie One more thing did land in the national batch, and I'll name it rather than quietly drop it. [] A lifestyle piece, headlined that a Chiefs heiress shares her wellness routines. []

Cosmo We received the headline and nothing else. [] Even if the full piece had come through, it isn't news, and this is a news show. [] So we're telling you it arrived and telling you we're leaving it there. []

Carrie There's one more headline in the same category, and it's a big one. [] The line we received says President Trump called off a strike he described as World War Two level, after a request from Gulf allies and Iran. []

Cosmo And that is the entire item. [] No target, no date, no confirmation from any of the parties named. [] We are telling you we received it precisely because of how large that claim is. []

Carrie If a story that size holds up, it deserves far more than a single sentence. [] We'll chase it. []

Cosmo Agreed. [] Let's go overseas. []

Cosmo The one international item that reached us comes from the Associated Press. [d] It's a photograph by Ohad Zwigenberg. [d]

Carrie Set it up for us. []

Cosmo Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security, was photographed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, observing Tisha Bav, a Jewish day of mourning. [d]

Carrie The Western Wall is the holiest place where Jews are permitted to pray, so the setting carries real weight. [d] Where a cabinet minister chooses to show up is always read closely. []

Cosmo It is. [] But I'll be straight with you. [] That photograph is dated July twenty-second. [d] It's more than three weeks old. [d]

Carrie And all we have is the caption. [d] No statement, no policy announcement, no reaction. [d] We'll chase the full story for you. []

Cosmo Now to Utah, and this is the one place today where we have real detail. []

Carrie Go ahead. []

Cosmo In Lehi, Holdman Studios is producing ten thousand square feet of stained glass art for a new multistory building. [j]

Carrie Ten thousand square feet. [j] That's not a window. [] That's an entire architectural skin. []

Cosmo Tom Holdman and his team are behind it. [j] The work depicts ancient stories, culture, history, and the world around us, and the stated goal is to capture the depth of humanity. [j]

Carrie And there's one panel I can't stop picturing. [] A red dragon breathing fire down on a man who lifts his shield to block it. [j]

Cosmo That's a striking thing to render in glass. [] Light coming through fire and a shield. []

Carrie I will say the report we have on the studio doesn't carry a byline, so we're crediting Holdman Studios and stopping there. [j]

Cosmo That's our show. [] A thin day on the national and world wires, and we'd rather tell you that than pad it out. []

Carrie We'll be back with a fuller feed. [] Thanks for listening. []

Cosmo Good afternoon, and welcome to Top News Headlines. [] It's Saturday, August fifteenth, twenty twenty-six, and we begin with breaking news. []

Carrie President Trump says he called off a strike he described as World War Two-level. []

Cosmo He says the decision came after a request from Gulf allies, and from Iran. []

Carrie That is a rare thing to say out loud . that the plan existed, that it was ready, and that he pulled it back. []

Cosmo And the shape of the request matters. [] Gulf partners and Tehran, asking for the same thing at the same time. []

Carrie We'll be watching for the details behind that decision, because right now the account we have is his own. []

Cosmo Now to the story running through the conservative press this weekend: the fight inside the Democratic Party. [b]

Carrie The socialist wing keeps picking up influence. [b] That's the through-line. []

Cosmo And the pushback is coming from the voters themselves. [b] Democratic voters still say they favor moderates. [b]

Carrie So you have a party drifting one way and an electorate leaning the other. [b] That's a realignment, and realignments don't settle quickly. []

Cosmo Watch the primaries. [] That's where this gets decided, not on cable television. []

Carrie Overseas now, and this one is grim. [] Wire reporting out of southern Lebanon. [d]

Cosmo An Israeli airstrike hit a house in the village of Deir al-Zahrani today. [d] At least one person was killed. [d]

Carrie Rescue workers were photographed pulling a body from what was left of the building. [d]

Cosmo One house, at least one death, and a border region where nothing stays contained for long. [d]

Carrie And that's the part that stays with you. [] It was a home, not a military site. [d]

Cosmo Right. [] We'll follow it as more comes in. []

Carrie Closer to home now. [] Utah, and this story is a genuine pleasure. [] Local coverage of Holdman Studio, in Lehi. [j]

Cosmo Stained glass. [j] Ten thousand square feet of stained glass running through the studio's headquarters. [j]

Carrie One panel shows a red dragon breathing fire, and a man raising an arm to shield himself. [j]

Cosmo The work pulls from ancient stories and from history. [j] The goal is capturing human depth in glass. [j]

Carrie And the studio isn't done. [] A multistory building is in development to display the glass. [j]

Cosmo Countless hours in, and still going. [j] And that's where we'll leave it. []

Carrie Those are your headlines. [] Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next time. []

Cosmo Welcome in. [] It's Friday, August fourteenth, twenty twenty-six, and we are starting with a headline that stopped us cold this morning. []

Carrie Go ahead, because I think I know which one. []

Cosmo President Trump says he called off a major military strike. [f] His own words for the plan were a World War Two level operation. [f]

Carrie That is enormous language. [] Why does he say he pulled it back? []

Cosmo He says Gulf allies asked him to. [f] And he says Iran asked him to as well. [f]

Carrie Now, here is where I want to be careful with our listeners. [] The reporting we have is thin. [f] We do not have the targets, we do not have the timeline, and we do not have the specific requests. [f]

Cosmo Right. [] So we are telling you what was claimed, not confirming what was planned. []

Carrie And if the claim holds up, a called-off strike on that scale is the biggest national story of the day by a wide margin. [] Everything else waits behind it. []

Cosmo Two more headlines before we go long on the rest. [] First, the cause of death for an elite rock climber has been revealed. []

Carrie That is one people have been waiting on. [] What are we able to say? []

Cosmo Only that it has been revealed. [] Our source is the headline itself, so we do not have the cause, we do not have the name, and we are not going to guess at either. []

Carrie Good. [] Better a short item than an invented one. [] And the second? []

Cosmo Politics. [] The story is socialists rising while voters want moderates, and the leftward drift of the Democrats. []

Carrie So that is a tension inside one party. [] The activist energy moving one direction and the electorate asking for something more centrist. []

Cosmo That is the frame we have. [] Again, headline level only, so treat it as a signpost rather than a full report. []

Carrie Noted. [] Let's take it overseas. [] This one is mine. []

Carrie Our world lead comes out of the occupied West Bank, and it is a hard one. [d] Three Palestinian families in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, have been under siege by Israeli settlers for six days. [d]

Cosmo Six days. [d] What does that actually look like on the ground? []

Carrie The road to their homes is cordoned off by the Israeli army. [d] So people cannot get in, and food and water cannot get in either. [d]

Cosmo And activists have stepped into that gap. [d]

Carrie They have. [d] Activists are stacking up food and water supplies right in front of Israeli soldiers at the blockade line. [d]

Cosmo That image tells you the whole story. [] A small village, three families, and now a standoff over whether basic supplies reach people's front doors. [d]

Carrie It also fits a broader pattern of settler pressure pushing Palestinian families off their land. [d] That is the thread to watch. []

Cosmo Well said. [] Now home to Utah. []

Carrie Take it away. []

Cosmo Eagle Mountain. [j] Residents there are trying to undo a property tax increase of one hundred eighty-three percent. [j]

Carrie One hundred eighty-three percent. [j] Say that slowly, because people are going to think they misheard it. []

Cosmo They did not. [] That increase was approved by the Eagle Mountain City Council last week, and on Tuesday, thirteen residents filed a referendum application to repeal it. [j]

Carrie One of those thirteen is a resident named Alex Washburn, who confirmed the filing is under review. [j] So the clock is running. []

Cosmo What is the bar they have to clear? []

Carrie Signatures from at least eight and a quarter percent of Eagle Mountain residents. [j] Clear that, and the repeal goes on the November ballot. [j]

Cosmo That is real work, but it is not out of reach for a motivated group. []

Carrie And city hall noticed. [] Since the filing, Mayor Jared Gray and council members have reached out to the residents to talk about a possible compromise. [j]

Cosmo So the referendum may have already done part of its job just by existing. []

Carrie That is the read. [] Watch for whether a deal lands before those signatures ever get counted. []

Cosmo Good place to leave it. [] Thanks for listening. []

Carrie We will see you next time. []

Cosmo Welcome in, everybody. [] It's Thursday, August thirteenth, twenty twenty-six, and we're starting with national headlines. []

Carrie We are. [] And I'll be straight with our listeners . the national wire we pulled this morning came in thin. []

Cosmo Painfully thin. [] One of the items we did get, from The Washington Times, was a special advertising supplement titled "American Energy Unleashed." [c] That's promotional material, not reporting. [c]

Carrie Which means we're not going to dress it up as a news story. [] That supplement ran back in April, and there's no reporting attached to it. [c]

Cosmo There was also a political question floating around, whether electoral wins by Democratic socialists actually translate into immediate federal policy. [b]

Carrie A good question. [] But the piece behind that headline never arrived, so we're not going to guess at the answer. [b] And there was one more, a headline saying an elite rock climber's cause of death had been revealed. [a] Just the headline. [a] Nothing under it. [a]

Cosmo We'd rather tell you where the gaps are than invent something to fill them. [] That's the national picture, and it's genuinely light. []

Carrie On to world headlines, and I want to be equally honest here. []

Cosmo Same story? []

Carrie Same story. [] Our world desk normally leads with wire-service reporting from Reuters and the Associated Press. [] Today, those feeds came back empty on our end. []

Cosmo No major geopolitical items cleared our sourcing. [] No conflict updates, no international stories of consequence that we can stand behind. []

Carrie And that's the bar. [] We're not going to reach for something half-sourced just to fill sixty seconds of your morning. []

Cosmo If the wires refresh later today, we'll pick it up tomorrow. [] For now, we move it along. []

Carrie Which brings us to Utah, and here we finally have something real. []

Cosmo Finally! [] Give it to us. []

Carrie The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Juniper Basin Elementary officially opened in Eagle Mountain. [j][i] The ribbon cutting was Wednesday. [j] The Tribune calls it the newest elementary school in the state. [j][i]

Cosmo I love this one. [] It sits at fifty-four oh seven Slate River Road, just west of Cedar Valley High School. [j]

Carrie And the name is deliberate. [j] The juniper is a tree known for deep roots and resilience. [j]

Cosmo Principal John Emett said it plainly. [j] He said, we love the name and are committed to being as strong, connected and resilient as our new name indicates. [j]

Carrie He went on to say the school will be a place where students feel welcome, and where they can grow and develop. [j]

Cosmo Eagle Mountain has been growing fast, and a brand-new building is a real marker for those families. []

Carrie It is. [] And that's our show. [] Light on the wires, but Utah delivered. []

Cosmo We'll be back tomorrow, hopefully with a fuller board. [] Thanks for listening. []

Cosmo Welcome back to Top News Headlines. [] It's Wednesday, August twelfth, twenty twenty-six, and I'm your host. []

Carrie And I'm here with him. [] I have to be straight with our listeners today, because the newsroom feed did not cooperate. []

Cosmo It really didn't. [] Most of what came across the wire this morning was scaffolding rather than reporting. [] Signup confirmation pages. [e] Copyright notices. [h] Navigation headers with nothing behind them. [g]

Carrie One item turned out to be a paid advertising supplement from The Washington Times, published back in April, under the headline American energy unleashed. [c] That's advertising copy, not editorial, so we're not going to dress it up as news. [c]

Cosmo Another was framed as an open question about how Democratic socialist election wins might shape federal policy. [b] No elections named, no outcomes, just the question. [b]

Carrie And we're not going to guess at the answer. [] If we don't have the facts, you don't get filler. []

Cosmo Same story on the world desk. [] We look for wire reporting first, Reuters and the Associated Press, and today there was none of it in our feed. []

Carrie No conflicts, no summits, no elections abroad that we can responsibly hand you. [] Not because the world was quiet, but because our sources came back empty. []

Cosmo Which is worth saying out loud. [] Silence in the feed is not the same as silence in the world. []

Carrie So consider the international segment a raincheck. [] We'll be back tomorrow with that picture, sourced properly. []

Cosmo Now, Utah. [] And here we finally have something real. []

Carrie We do. [] This one comes from the Daily Herald, and it involves a bear. [j]

Cosmo A juvenile black bear turned up in an east Provo neighborhood, just north of Splash Summit Water Park. [j] Several residents called it in this morning. [j]

Carrie And one of those neighbors caught the bear on a Ring doorbell camera, which is how the block knew this wasn't somebody's imagination. [j]

Cosmo Provo Animal Control responded alongside the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. [j] Here's the wrinkle, though. [] Neither set of officers saw the bear themselves. [j]

Carrie Right. [] Officials believe it simply headed back up the hill. [j] Jana-Lee Holland, a spokeswoman for the Provo police, said there was no public safety threat as of this afternoon. [j]

Cosmo Which is the sentence you want to hear. [] A young bear wandering down, taking a look around, and going home. [j]

Carrie Still, if you're in east Provo, keep the trash secured and keep an eye out. [] Bears that find food come back. []

Cosmo Good advice. [] And that one local story carried the whole day. []

Carrie Which is the reminder worth leaving you with. [] The bear was the only item with real facts behind it, and it came from a local desk right down the road. [j]

Cosmo That's Top News Headlines for today. [] Thin day, honest brief. []

Carrie We'll have a fuller one tomorrow. [] Thanks for listening. []

Cosmo Good afternoon and welcome in. [] Today is Tuesday, August eleventh, twenty twenty-six, and we are glad you're with us. []

Carrie We are. [] And I'll be straight with our listeners right at the top. [] The national wire we pulled this morning came back thin. [] A couple of headline fragments, one promotional page, and no actual stories behind them. [a][b][c]

Cosmo That's the honest read. [] We had one headline pointing at what looked like a piece on grocery store etiquette, and we had a Washington Times page promoting a special supplement the paper called American Energy Unleashed. [a][c]

Carrie A supplement promotion. [c] Not a news story. [c]

Cosmo Right. [] And our rule here is simple. [] We don't build a national headline out of a title and a hunch. []

Carrie We'd rather give you nothing than give you something invented. [] So we're keeping the national block short today and putting our time where we actually have reporting. []

Cosmo Same situation on the world desk, and it's worth explaining why. []

Carrie One of our international items came through with a four-word headline, crimes against humanity, and nothing underneath it. [] No country, no date, no names, no context. []

Cosmo That is exactly the kind of headline you cannot guess at. [] Attach that phrase to the wrong conflict and you have done real damage. []

Carrie You have. [] So we're holding it. [] If the reporting fills in behind that headline, we'll bring it to you tomorrow with the details attached. []

Cosmo The wire services, Reuters and the Associated Press, didn't reach us at all today, and we're not going to paper over the gap. []

Carrie Which brings us to the one story today that came through complete. [] And it's a Utah story. []

Cosmo It is. [] Utah Valley University will cancel classes on September tenth of this year. [j] That is one year to the day since the shooting that killed political activist Charlie Kirk on the university's campus. [j]

Carrie Kirk was speaking at a Turning Point U S A event in an outdoor courtyard on September tenth, twenty twenty-five, in front of thousands of students. [j]

Cosmo Thousands. [j] That's the part that stays with you. [] This wasn't a quiet corner of campus. [j]

Carrie Interim President Wayne Vaught announced the closure in an email to students. [j] Vaught described the day as a chance for reflection, for service, and for connection while the university continues to heal. [j]

Cosmo So no classes, and space built into the calendar on purpose. [j] That's a deliberate institutional choice, not just a day off. []

Carrie That's how I read it too. [] The school is treating the anniversary as something the whole campus needs to mark together. [j]

Cosmo And it's on the calendar now, so students and families in Utah County can plan around it. []

Carrie That's our show. [] Thin on the national and world side today, and we told you why rather than filling the space. []

Cosmo We'll be back with a fuller board next time. [] Thanks for listening. []

Cosmo Good morning, and welcome. [] It's Monday, August tenth, twenty twenty-six, and we've got a lean but real rundown for you today. []

Carrie Lean is the word. [] I'll be straight with our listeners . the national wire came back thin this morning. [] A lot of what landed was newsletter sign-up pages and advertising supplements, not reporting. [c][e]

Cosmo The one thing that surfaced from the Washington Times was a promotional supplement on American energy, published back in April. [c] That's paid material, not news, so we're flagging it and moving on. [c]

Carrie There was also a question circulating on the national feed about whether recent wins by Democratic socialists translate into any immediate federal policy change. [b] It reached us as a headline with no reporting behind it, so we'll leave that one alone rather than guess at an answer. [b]

Cosmo No facts, no story. [] But there is one national item worth putting on your radar. []

Carrie President Trump says he called off a military strike, one he described as being at the scale of the Second World War, after a request from Gulf allies and from Iran. []

Cosmo That's the headline we have, and we're going to hold it right there. [] The reporting behind it hasn't reached us yet, so we're not going to characterize the target, the timing, or what changed his mind. []

Carrie But a called-off strike of that description is not a small thing, and it's worth watching as more comes out. []

Cosmo Let's go overseas, because that's where we've got something with more detail behind it. []

Carrie This one is a look back rather than breaking news, but it's the item that matters. [] It involves the Kurdistan Workers' Party . the P K K . and a withdrawal out of Turkey. [d]

Cosmo Fighters crossed out of Turkish territory with their weapons, and then held a formal ceremony in the Qandil area of northern Iraq. [d] That was late October of last year. [d]

Carrie And the detail that matters is that they left armed. [d] This wasn't a disarmament. [d] It reads as an organized, orderly withdrawal by a group that still has operational capability. [d]

Cosmo Which is a very different thing from a group standing down. [] Watch that space . northern Iraq has been the pressure point in this relationship for decades. []

Carrie Agreed. [] That's the international picture today. []

Cosmo All right, closer to home. [] Utah. []

Carrie And this one is genuinely sobering. [] There was a fatal plane crash in Utah Lake, near Provo, on Friday afternoon. [j]

Cosmo The pilot, Chase Day, was killed. [j] First responders got the call at four o'clock. [j] The aircraft had only just taken off from Provo Airport when it went down near Utah Lake State Park. [j]

Carrie There was a woman on board as a passenger. [j] She survived with injuries that were not life-threatening, and was taken to a local hospital. [j]

Cosmo And here's the part investigators pointed to . the pilot managed to put the aircraft down in shallower water. [j] Officials say that choice is what aided her survival. [j]

Carrie In his final moments, he made the call that saved the person sitting next to him. [j] That's the story out of Utah County this morning. []

Cosmo Our thoughts are with his family. [] That's our rundown . short today, but everything in it is solid. []

Carrie Thanks for listening. [] We'll see you next time. []

Cosmo Welcome in, everybody. [] It's Sunday, August ninth, twenty twenty-six, and we're running the top headlines together, as always. []

Carrie Good to be here. [] And I'll be straight with our listeners up front, because I think that's the right way to do it. []

Cosmo Say it. []

Carrie The national wire came in thin today. [] What reached us on the national desk was mostly headline text and subscription pages, not reporting we can stand behind. [a][b][e]

Cosmo And that's the rule in this shop. [] If we don't have the facts, we don't say the words. []

Carrie The one national item that did land was a special advertising supplement in The Washington Times, dated April twenty-second, on American energy. [c] That's an advertisement, not news coverage. [c]

Cosmo So we're not going to dress it up as a story. [] When the national desk gives us something solid, you'll hear it here first. []

Carrie The world desk came up empty too, unfortunately. []

Cosmo Right. [] Nothing came through from the wire services today that we could verify. [] No Reuters copy, and no Associated Press copy with any actual reporting behind it. []

Carrie So there's no conflict reporting, no diplomacy, and no international markets. [] We'd rather leave a gap than invent one. []

Cosmo That's the trade we're making, and I think our listeners appreciate it. [] Silence beats a fabrication every single time. []

Carrie Agreed. [] Now, Utah is where we actually have news, and it's serious. []

Cosmo It is. [] Let's go there. []

Carrie A small plane went down in Utah Lake on Friday, near Utah Lake State Park in Provo. [j] This is per the Utah County Sheriff's Office. [j]

Cosmo The pilot was Chase Day, and he was killed in the crash. [j] First responders were notified right around four in the afternoon. [j]

Carrie The aircraft had just taken off from nearby Provo Airport, so the crash came very early in the flight. [j]

Cosmo There was also a passenger on board. [j] A woman, and she survived with injuries that were not life threatening. [j] She was taken to a local hospital. [j]

Carrie And here's the detail that stayed with me. [] Investigators say Chase Day brought the aircraft down in a shallow stretch of the lake, close to shore. [j]

Cosmo By their account, that shallow water made the rescue quicker and safer. [j] It reads like a decision that mattered for the person sitting next to him. []

Carrie That's the headline out of Utah County today, and our thoughts are with Chase Day and his family. []

Cosmo Well said. [] That's everything we can verify today. [] Thanks for spending a few minutes with us. []

Carrie We'll be back with a fuller board next time. [] Take care of each other out there. []

Cosmo Welcome back to Top News Headlines. [] It's Saturday, August eighth, twenty twenty-six. []

Carrie I'll be straight with our listeners this morning. [] The national wire came in thin today. []

Cosmo It really did. [] A lot of what landed in front of us was newsletter sign-up pages and advertising supplements rather than reporting. [c][e]

Carrie The Washington Times, for instance, sent through a promotional supplement on American energy. [c] That's marketing, not news, and we're not going to dress it up as a headline. []

Cosmo So let's go where the reporting actually is. [] World news, and there's a real one. []

Carrie There is. [] Off the coast of Oman, the crude oil tanker Caroline Bezengi is grounded and partly submerged, and it is actively leaking crude into the sea. [d]

Cosmo Satellite imagery from Wednesday, August fifth, captured the scene. [d] You can see the vessel down in the water and the oil spreading out from the hull. [d]

Carrie That's the part that matters. [] This isn't a risk of a spill. [d] It's a spill already underway, in some of the busiest shipping waters in the world. [d]

Cosmo The Gulf of Oman sits right at the doorway of the Strait of Hormuz. [] Damage there doesn't stay local. [] It reaches well beyond one coastline. []

Carrie We don't yet have a cause, a crew report, or an estimate of how much oil is in the water. [d] When those come in, we'll bring them to you. []

Cosmo Also on the international side, archaeologists have uncovered a buried Roman estate. [a] The reporting so far is one line long, so we'll come back to it when there's something real to tell you. [a]

Carrie Fair enough. [] Let's bring it home to Utah, and this one has a number attached to it. []

Cosmo A big one. [] The Eagle Mountain City Council voted unanimously Thursday night to approve a property tax rate increase of one hundred eighty-three percent. [j]

Carrie That is the city's first property tax increase in fifteen years. [j] For a median household, it works out to about two hundred fifty-five dollars more per year. [j]

Cosmo City-wide, it raises roughly five and a half million dollars in additional property tax revenue every year. [j]

Carrie And here's the part residents should hear clearly. [] Eagle Mountain says every dollar of that new revenue goes to public safety. [j] Not roads, not parks. [j] Public safety. [j]

Cosmo Worth noting the council actually pulled back from its own proposal. [j] The original plan was a two hundred twenty percent increase that would have brought in nearly six point seven million dollars. [j]

Carrie So the final vote was the lighter of the two options. [j] Still a steep jump after fifteen flat years, but lighter. [j]

Cosmo And that vote came at a Truth in Taxation hearing, which is the public step Utah requires before a city can raise a rate like that. [j]

Carrie That's the news we can stand behind today. [] Thin on national, one serious story at sea, and a real bill landing in Eagle Mountain mailboxes. []

Cosmo We'll be back tomorrow. [] Thanks for listening. []

Cosmo Good afternoon and welcome to Top News Headlines. [] It's Friday, August seventh, twenty twenty-six, and we are starting with the economy. []

Carrie And it's a rough one. [] The United States economy shed twenty-three thousand jobs in July. [b] That is not slow growth. [] That is going backward. []

Cosmo Right, and that's the number everyone is chewing on today. [] A normal month adds jobs. [] This one subtracted them, and that makes it a major disappointment. [b]

Carrie Twenty-three thousand fewer people working. [b] And that matters, because job numbers drive everything downstream, from the Federal Reserve to household confidence. []

Cosmo We should be straight with listeners, though. [] We don't have the breakdown yet, not by sector and not by region. [b]

Carrie Agreed. [] So the headline stands on its own. [] July was a losing month for American jobs. [b]

Cosmo One more national story, and it's a big one. [] President Trump says he called off a strike he described as being on the scale of the Second World War. []

Carrie Called it off at whose request? []

Cosmo At the request of Gulf allies and of Iran. [] That's what the President says prompted him to pull it back. []

Carrie That is an enormous claim, and I want to be careful here. [] We have the President's statement and not much more. [] We don't have a target, we don't have a date, and we don't have independent confirmation. []

Cosmo Right. [] So we report what he said, and we wait on the rest. []

Carrie Let's go worldwide. []

Cosmo And overseas, the story catching attention isn't coming out of politics. [] It's coming out of the ground. [] Archaeologists have uncovered a buried Roman estate. [a]

Carrie I love this. [] A whole estate, sitting under the soil, waiting. [] That's the kind of find that rewrites a local map. []

Cosmo It is. [] And I'll be honest with you, the details we have are thin. [] We don't know the location, we don't know the size, and we don't know what was found inside. [a]

Carrie And we're not going to fill in blanks. [] But a Roman estate emerging from the dirt is worth your attention. [a]

Cosmo We'll chase the fuller picture as it develops. [] Let's take it home to Utah. []

Carrie Happily. [] And this one is a genuine rescue story. [] A paraglider crashed on Mount Timpanogos, and he made it out. [j]

Cosmo What happened up there? []

Carrie A man in his mid-thirties was flying near Mount Mahogany, just west of the range. [j] He went down on the north end of Mount Timpanogos at nine thirty Thursday morning, with a broken leg and some minor injuries. [j]

Cosmo Sergeant Raymond Ormond with the Utah County Sheriff's Office walked through what came next. [j] Search and Rescue reached the man on the ground first. [j]

Carrie Then a Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter hoisted him straight off the mountain. [j]

Cosmo Hoisted him off. [j] That's a technical, dangerous piece of flying, and the crew handed him to a waiting ambulance. [j]

Carrie If you hike or fly Timpanogos, that's your reminder. [] The terrain is beautiful and it is unforgiving. []

Cosmo A broken leg and a helicopter ride beats the alternative. [] Good work by everyone involved. []

Carrie That's the news. [] Jobs down, a called-off strike, a Roman estate uncovered, and one Utah paraglider headed home. []

Cosmo Thanks for listening. [] We'll see you next time on Top News Headlines. []

Cosmo Good afternoon and welcome in. [] Today is Thursday, August sixth, twenty twenty-six, and we are starting on the national desk. []

Carrie And I want to be straight with everybody right out of the gate. [] The national wire is thin this cycle. []

Cosmo It really is. [] We went through our usual sources this morning, and most of what came back was boilerplate rather than actual reporting. [] But two national items did surface, and we are going to name them. []

Carrie The first one. [] Todd Blanche, the president's pick for attorney general, faces a final hurdle before the confirmation vote. []

Cosmo And the second. [] The president says he called off a strike he described as World War Two level, after a request from Gulf allies and Iran. []

Carrie Both of those are real stories, and both of them reached us as headlines only. [] No vote count, no timeline, no detail on what the hurdle is, and nothing on where or when that strike would have landed. []

Cosmo So rather than dress up a slow news day, here is the deal. [] We tell you exactly what we have, we name where it came from, and we do not fill in the blanks ourselves. [] No filler, no guessing. []

Carrie Those two go on the board, and the moment the reporting behind them lands, we lead with them. []

Cosmo That is the standard. [] And it takes us overseas, because one more item surfaced. []

Carrie Archaeologists have uncovered a buried Roman estate. [a] That is the story on the world desk today. []

Cosmo Okay, I am immediately invested. [] Whereabouts are we talking about? []

Carrie And that is the frustrating part. [] This one also reached us as a headline and nothing else. [a] No location, no era, and no word on what was actually found at the site. [a]

Cosmo So we are flagging it, not embellishing it. [] A buried Roman estate is a genuine find, and the moment the details land, we will lead with it. [a]

Carrie Exactly right. [] Consider it on our board for tomorrow. []

Cosmo Let us come home to Utah, because this one we can give you in full. []

Carrie Provo, I take it. []

Cosmo Provo. [] The city is hosting its third annual Tu Voz Importa event, and this comes straight from the city itself. [j]

Carrie For anyone who needs the translation, that is your voice matters. []

Cosmo That is it. [] This coming Monday evening, six o'clock, at the Provo Library Ballroom. [j]

Carrie And the evening is built for Provo's Spanish-speaking residents. [j] There will be conversations with city leaders, information booths, and live entertainment. [j]

Cosmo The city says it created the event to better engage an important part of the community, and to give residents a welcoming space to talk about the issues affecting Provo. [j]

Carrie Third year running, which tells you the event is working. [j] Local government is where most people actually feel the decisions being made, and showing up is how you get heard. []

Cosmo So if you are in Provo, mark it down. [] Monday, six o'clock, the library ballroom. [j]

Carrie That is your day. [] Two national headlines we are still chasing, one world story we are watching, and one solid Utah story worth your time. []

Cosmo We will be back tomorrow with more. [] Take care of each other. []

Cosmo Good afternoon and welcome in. [] It's Wednesday, August fifth, twenty twenty-six, and we've got headlines for you from across the country, from overseas, and from right here in Utah. []

Carrie We do, and I'll start on the national side. [] The biggest item on the wire today involves the President and Iran. [] Trump says he called off a strike he described as World War Two level, after a request from Gulf allies and from Iran itself. []

Cosmo Called off. [] So the strike was planned and then stopped. []

Carrie That's what he says. [] The reporting we're working from gives us the claim and the reason he offers for it, the request from those Gulf allies and from Iran, and stops there. [] We don't have the timing, the target, or any confirmation from the other governments. []

Cosmo Then that's where we'll leave it. [] A stated decision, a stated reason, and no independent confirmation yet. []

Carrie There was one other national item, and it isn't really reporting. [c] It's a special advertising supplement from The Washington Times, titled American energy unleashed. [c] It ran in the April twenty-second edition, so it isn't even fresh. [c]

Cosmo Good call flagging it. [] An advertising supplement is paid placement, not a newsroom product, and we're not going to dress one up as a national story. []

Carrie Right. [] When the material isn't there, the honest move is to say so and move on rather than fill the time. []

Cosmo Agreed. [] So let's go overseas. [] The Middle East is carrying today's world news. []

Carrie It is. [] The headline out of the region: a group calling itself the Board of Peace is demanding that Netanyahu halt airstrikes on Gaza. [b] The group is pressing a plan to end the fighting, and so far Israel has not complied with it. [b]

Cosmo And that refusal is the whole story. [] A framework like that only works if the side doing the striking agrees to stop. [] Right now that agreement is not there. [b]

Carrie What are the terms of the plan itself? []

Cosmo We don't have them. [] The reporting we're working from names the demand and names the refusal, and stops there. [b] So we'll tell you what we know and not guess at the rest. []

Carrie There's a second story that puts a human face on this, a photographer's dispatch out of Gaza City. [d] A funeral was held yesterday, Tuesday, for members of the Hassayna and Abu Sharia families. [d]

Cosmo Yesterday? [] For whom? []

Carrie For relatives killed in an Israeli strike back in twenty twenty-three. [d] Their bodies were only just recovered from the rubble. [d] They were carried draped in Palestinian flags. [d]

Cosmo Nearly three years under the rubble. [d] That is the part that stays with you. [] Families burying their dead this week, while the airstrikes that the plan is meant to halt are still going on. [b][d]

Carrie It's the same conflict from both ends. [] The demand at the negotiating table, and the funeral in the street. [b][d]

Cosmo Well put. [] Let's come home to Utah. []

Carrie Utah was quiet today. [] One of our usual sources, the Salt Lake Tribune, published a donation appeal for its nonprofit newsroom today rather than a story we could use. [i]

Cosmo The local item we do have is a passing. [] Steven Maurice Prescott died on Sunday, August second, at the age of seventy-five. [j] He was born March twenty-sixth, nineteen fifty-one. [j]

Carrie What do we know about him? []

Cosmo The notice describes a distinguished life, and says it was written with profound sadness and with hearts full of cherished memories. [j] Beyond that, the details of his life weren't included in what reached us. [j]

Carrie Then we'll simply mark it. [] Steven Maurice Prescott, seventy-five. [j]

Cosmo That's the show. [] A called-off strike on the national side, a heavy day in Gaza, and a name to remember here in Utah. []

Carrie Thanks for spending a few minutes with us. [] We'll be back tomorrow. []

[[S E G M E N T: National Headlines]]

Cosmo Welcome to Top News Headlines. [] It's Tuesday, August fourth, twenty twenty-six. []

Carrie I want to level with our listeners right at the top today. []

Cosmo Go ahead. []

Carrie The national wire came in thin. [] Most of what reached our feeds this morning was newsletter sign-up pages and a nonprofit donation appeal. [e][i] Not reporting. [e][i]

Cosmo There was also a Washington Times special advertising supplement titled American Energy Unleashed. [c] That is an advertisement, and it says so. [c] We are not going to dress it up as news. []

Carrie The one national item with any meat on it is a consumer piece. [a] A roundup of car cleaning and maintenance essentials, with prices starting at seven dollars. [a]

Cosmo Seven dollars. [a] That is the national desk today, and we would rather give you three real things than thirty invented ones. []

Carrie Agreed. [] The world desk has more for us. [] [[S E G M E N T: World Headlines]]

Cosmo Our lead is out of the Middle East. [] The Board of Peace has formally demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu halt airstrikes in Gaza. [b]

Carrie And Israel has refused. [b] That is the part that matters. []

Cosmo So you have international pressure on one side, and a government that is not moving on the other. [b]

Carrie Which makes it a standoff. [] And here is the thing about a peace plan that one side will not sign. [] It is not a plan yet. [] It is a proposal. []

Cosmo Watch whether the Board of Peace has any leverage beyond the demand itself. [] Right now, the strikes continue. [b]

Carrie Also from the Associated Press, a photograph out of the Strait of Hormuz. [d] No article with it. [d] Just the picture. [d]

Cosmo What are we looking at? []

Carrie Children wading in the water off Bandar Abbas, Iran. [d] Cargo ships at anchor behind them. [d] A fisherman standing nearby. [d]

Cosmo That is a quiet picture of a very loud place. [] The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most important waterways on earth, and there is ordinary life going on right in the middle of it. [d]

Carrie Sometimes a single photograph is the whole report. [] [[S E G M E N T: Utah Local Headlines]]

Cosmo Closer to home now. [] Utah. [] And the local desk was quiet as well. []

Carrie It was. [] No politics, no public safety, no business, no weather. [] Nothing of consequence reached us in the last twenty-four hours. []

Cosmo What did reach us was an obituary. [j] Steven Maurice Prescott died on Sunday, August second, at seventy-five years old. [j] He was born March twenty-sixth, nineteen fifty-one. [j]

Carrie His family remembers him with sadness. [j] That is the whole local file today. []

Cosmo A light news day is a real thing, and we will tell you when we have one rather than fill the time with noise. []

Carrie When there is more, you will hear it here. [] Thanks for listening to Top News Headlines. []

Cosmo Good afternoon, and welcome in. [] Today is Monday, August third, twenty twenty-six, and we are starting with the national headlines. []

Carrie We are. [] And the biggest one is a loss in American politics. [] Kay Granger has died at the age of eighty-three. [b]

Cosmo A trailblazing Texas Republican, and a longtime member of Congress before she retired. [b] Trailblazing is the word running through every tribute today, and it fits. [b]

Carrie It does. [] She built her career in a Texas Republican party that was not sending many women to Washington when she got started. []

Cosmo And that is what she is being remembered for tonight. [b] More on her career as the tributes come in. []

Carrie A big name to lose. [] On the consumer side, something much lighter is moving. [] Verizon and Xfinity have both rolled out new device promotions. [a]

Cosmo How much are we talking? []

Carrie Up to one thousand dollars in savings on a new Samsung Galaxy or a new iPhone. [a] That is the pitch from both providers. [a]

Cosmo One thousand dollars is real money on a phone. [a] Read the terms before you sign, though, because carrier math is carrier math. []

Carrie Always. [] Time to head overseas. []

Cosmo And here is where we have to be straight with you. [] We do not have a world story for you today. []

Carrie The wire services we lead with, Reuters and the Associated Press, did not move anything in the last twenty-four hours that we could stand behind. []

Cosmo So rather than guess at what is happening abroad, we are skipping it. [] We would rather tell you nothing than tell you something wrong. []

Carrie That is the standard. [] World news will be back for you tomorrow. []

Cosmo Closing at home here in Utah, and this one is genuinely fun. []

Carrie Sanpete County. [j] The county fair has launched a Goose Chase challenge, and it went live on August first. [j]

Cosmo So it is already running, weeks before the fair itself opens. [j]

Carrie Correct. [] It is an interactive outdoor challenge, it is free, and it is built for families. [j] The whole idea is to get people out exploring the county. [j]

Cosmo Free is the part I like. [j] Residents, families, visiting friends, everybody is invited. [j]

Carrie A nice warm up for fair season in central Utah. [] Grab the kids and go see the county. []

Cosmo That is your update. [] Kay Granger remembered at eighty-three, a thousand dollars on the table from Verizon and Xfinity, and Sanpete County kicking off fair season early. []

Carrie Thanks for listening. [] We will see you next time. []

Cosmo Today is Sunday, August second, twenty twenty-six, and this is your Top News Headlines rundown. []

Carrie I'll be straight with everyone up front. [] A lot of what came across today is headline with very little reporting underneath it, so this rundown is short, and we are not going to pad it. []

Cosmo Starting on the national desk. [] Anthony Fauci's diary is drawing attention. []

Carrie What we have is a description of its tone. [] The diary is said to detail a blooming outrage toward the far right, alongside a notably softer posture toward President Biden and toward China. []

Cosmo That characterization is the whole of what we can stand behind. [] No entries, no dates, no direct quotes. []

Carrie So we will hand you the description and stop there rather than guess at what is inside it. []

Cosmo The other national item is a consumer story. [] Verizon and Xfinity are both running promotional discounts on new phones. [a]

Carrie That covers Samsung Galaxy models and the iPhone, with as much as one thousand dollars in advertised savings. [a]

Cosmo One thousand dollars is the headline number, and that is clearly the draw. [a] What we do not have are the terms. [a]

Carrie Right. [] No word on which models qualify, how long the offers run, or who is eligible. [a] Read the fine print before you trade in a phone that still works. []

Cosmo There was also a special supplement in The Washington Times, titled American Energy Unleashed. [c]

Carrie That supplement is advertising, not reporting. [c] We are flagging it and moving on. []

Cosmo Overseas, the largest story today is Iran. [] There is a heavy wave of strikes underway. []

Carrie One headline says that wave could be the first stage of a two week campaign aimed at finishing off Iran's missile arsenal. []

Cosmo Another headline puts it far more bluntly. [] It calls this one long continuous war. [e]

Carrie Those are headlines without the detail behind them. [] We do not have strike locations, timing, or any accounting of what has been hit, so we are not going to fill that in for you. []

Cosmo We do have one more piece of Iran material today, a single wire photo caption. [d] It is worth walking through carefully. []

Carrie The photo shows mourners at a grand mosque in Tehran, at a memorial honoring Iran's late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. [d]

Cosmo That memorial was held on the fourteenth of July, about three weeks ago. [d] Ali Khamenei led Iran for decades, so a gathering on that scale is a major public moment. []

Carrie Here is the detail that matters most. [] The caption says many in the crowd were holding posters of the current Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, his son. [d]

Cosmo So if that caption is right, the succession has stayed inside the family, and that crowd was making a very visible show of support for the son now holding the office. [d]

Carrie One photo caption is thin evidence, though. [] We do not have a full report, so we are going to leave the interpretation right there. []

Cosmo Agreed. [] We will pick it up when there is real reporting behind it. []

Carrie Closer to home in Utah, the news is lighter, and honestly kind of fun. []

Cosmo Sanpete County launched its Goose Chase Challenge yesterday. [j] It is a free, interactive scavenger hunt built to get families out exploring the county. [j]

Carrie You work through it with your family and your friends over the next few weeks. [j]

Cosmo And the timing is deliberate. [] It runs in the stretch leading up to the Sanpete County Fair. [j]

Carrie A warm-up act for the fair, then. [] And you cannot argue with the price. [j]

Cosmo We do not have the fair's exact opening date, only that it lands several weeks out. [j]

Carrie That is the rundown. [] Everything we could actually stand behind today. []

Cosmo We will be back tomorrow. [] Thanks for listening. []

Cosmo Welcome in. [] Today is Saturday, August first, twenty twenty-six, and this is Top News Headlines. [] We have to level with people right at the top. []

Carrie We do. [] The national feed came in thin today. [] Much of what landed was advertising and subscription pages, not reporting. [c][e][i] So here is what we can actually stand behind, and nothing more. []

Cosmo That is the deal we make every day. [] The only national story with a name attached comes from The Washington Times. [c] They are circulating a special supplement called American Energy Unleashed. [c]

Carrie And here is the honest label. [] That is a paid advertising supplement, not a news story. [c] We are not going to dress it up as one. []

Cosmo Right. [] The other national item is not a story at all. [] It is a consumer note. [] Verizon and Xfinity are both running promotions on the Samsung Galaxy and the iPhone. [a]

Carrie Savings of up to one thousand dollars. [a] The terms were not spelled out, so read the fine print before you trade anything in. [a]

Cosmo Overseas, the strongest thing on our desk is a wire photograph, and it says plenty. [d] It was taken in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, yesterday, Friday, July thirty-first. [d]

Carrie Describe it, because the detail is the story. []

Cosmo A Palestinian civilian picking a path through rubble. [d] Whole buildings down. [d] That is the ground truth of the Israel and Hamas war right now. [d]

Carrie And notice what a photograph tells you that a headline cannot. [] People are still living in that rubble. [d] They are still moving through it every day. [d] The destruction is not a backdrop behind the news. [] It is the street they walk to get anywhere at all. [d]

Cosmo We do not have a casualty count or a negotiation update for you today, and we are not going to guess at one. []

Carrie What we can confirm is narrow, and it is solid. [] That photograph, that place, that date, and civilians still living in the middle of it. [d]

Cosmo Closer to home. [] Utah, this is the one to pay attention to. [] According to the Deseret News, members of the Osmond family are pushing a proposal called the Vesper Amphitheater. [j]

Carrie It would sit at the mouth of Provo Canyon. [j] Twenty thousand seats, open air, on just over one hundred acres of quarry and city-owned land. [j]

Cosmo That land is a gravel pit today. [j] The developers want to turn it into what they are calling a gateway to Provo Canyon, a world-class venue for top performers. [j]

Carrie That proposal went public back on May nineteenth, and it has not gone quiet since. [j]

Cosmo No it has not. [] The opposition is real. [j] Critics say a venue that size would disturb the canyon environment. [j]

Carrie That is the whole fight in one sentence. [] Economic and cultural upside against canyon quality of life. [j] If you live in Provo or Orem, this one lands in your backyard. []

Cosmo That is your Saturday. [] Thanks for listening. []

Cosmo Welcome to Top News Headlines. [] It's Friday, July thirty-first, twenty twenty-six. []

Carrie I'll be straight with everyone right up front. [] Today's wire came in thin. []

Cosmo Very thin. [] So we're going to tell you exactly what we have and exactly what we don't, because the alternative is making things up, and we don't do that here. []

Carrie Starting national. [] The honest answer is that the national feed gave us nothing substantive today. [a][e]

Cosmo What came through were subscription pages and newsletter sign-up prompts. [a][e] Fox News Deals. [a] Fox News First. [e] Those are mailing list invitations, not stories. [a][e]

Carrie The one item with an actual name attached was a special advertising supplement in The Washington Times, titled American Energy Unleashed. [c] And it isn't even recent. [c] It ran on April twenty-second. [c]

Cosmo So it's advertising, and it's months old. [c] No national headline from us today. [] If a real one lands overnight, it leads the show tomorrow. []

Carrie World news. [] And here we do have something, though it comes with a caution. []

Cosmo Go ahead. []

Carrie A heavy wave of military strikes aimed at Iran's missile arsenal. [f] The reporting calls those strikes a possible first phase of a two-week campaign, and says the aim is to wipe out those weapons entirely. [f]

Cosmo That is a very big claim. [] And here's the caution. [] All that reached us was the headline. [f] There was no article behind it. [f]

Carrie Right. [] So we cannot tell you who carried out the strikes, or which targets were hit. [f]

Cosmo We have no casualty figures, and no official reaction has reached us either. [f]

Carrie What we can pass along is the framing. [] Multi-phase. [f] Expansive. [f] Two weeks. [f] If that holds up, it is easily the biggest story of the day. []

Cosmo Treat it as unconfirmed until the full reporting lands. [] We will chase it. []

Carrie Closer to home now. [] Utah. []

Cosmo And Sanpete County has the one local item we can stand behind. [] The Sanpete County Fair Goose Chase Challenge kicks off tomorrow, August first. [j]

Carrie Tell me how it works. []

Cosmo It's free, it's interactive, and the whole idea is getting families and friends out exploring the county. [j] Think of it as a countywide scavenger hunt. []

Carrie And it runs for several weeks leading up to the fair. [j] So it's not a side event. [] It's the build-up. []

Cosmo Free, outdoors, on a Saturday in August. [j] That's a good deal. []

Carrie Beyond Sanpete, the Utah feed was every bit as quiet as the national one. [g][h][i] The Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune both came through empty today. [h][i]

Cosmo So that's what we've got. [] A thin day, honestly reported. []

Carrie We'll be back with more the moment there is more. [] Thanks for listening. []

Cosmo Welcome in. [] It's Thursday, July thirtieth, twenty twenty-six, and we start with a war that just crossed a new border. []

Carrie Egyptian officials confirmed a drone attack Wednesday at the Mediterranean port of Damietta. [c] A fire broke out aboard two vessels. [c]

Cosmo Two vessels, and who owned them matters. [c] One was a United States owned storage vessel. [c] The other was a Greek tanker. [c]

Carrie This is the first confirmed strike of the United States and Iran conflict to reach Egypt. [c] Egypt had stayed on the sidelines. [c] That is over. [c]

Cosmo That's the headline inside the headline. [] Egypt kept itself out of this war, and now the war has come to its own coastline. [c]

Carrie There's more. [] Reporting describes a heavy wave of strikes aimed at Iran's missile arsenal. [f]

Cosmo A heavy wave, and possibly the opening phase of something longer. [f] Those strikes are described as the start of a campaign to destroy Iran's missile capability, one expected to run about two weeks. [f]

Carrie So heavy strikes first, and then more to come. [f] That's a campaign, not a single retaliation. []

Cosmo Which is why Damietta matters. [] The longer the campaign runs, the more coastlines get pulled into it. []

Carrie And the human cost showed up plainly in Iraq today. []

Cosmo The Associated Press was in Najaf on Thursday, at a funeral for fighters with the Popular Mobilization Forces. [d] They were killed in airstrikes on their bases. [d]

Carrie Coffins draped in Iraqi flags. [d] One photograph centered on a child grieving beside one of the coffins. [d]

Cosmo That image says what a casualty count can't. [] These were military bases, and the men on them had families. [d]

Carrie And it puts Iraq back in the picture. [] Egypt, Iran, Iraq. [] Three countries, one widening conflict, all inside a single day of news. []

Cosmo That's the thread. [] This is no longer just the United States and Iran. []

Carrie Closer to home now. [] Utah spent Wednesday in mourning. [j]

Cosmo Hundreds gathered at the U C C U Center at Utah Valley University in Orem. [j] The Salt Lake Tribune reports it was a memorial for Provo Fire Captain Spencer Long and his family, who died on July seventeenth. [j]

Carrie Five caskets at the base of the podium. [j] Spencer, his wife Katrina, and their three sons, Reid, Thayne, and Gage. [j] Each casket had a photograph and a floral wreath. [j]

Cosmo The crowd told the story too. [] Family, neighbors, firefighters, and the boys' hockey teammates, all in one room. [j]

Carrie The family was remembered as adventurous, and deeply devoted to their community and to the outdoors. [j]

Cosmo A hard week for Provo and for Utah Valley. []

Carrie That's the news for Thursday. []

Cosmo Take care of each other out there. [] We'll see you next time. []

Cosmo Welcome back to Top News Headlines. [] It's Wednesday, July twenty-ninth, twenty twenty-six, and we've got a thin but pointed news day, so let's get right to it. []

Carrie Thin is the word, and that's really the story underneath the story today. [] A lot of what crossed our desks since yesterday was promotional material rather than reporting. [a][c][e][i]

Cosmo Let's start with the one national item that has real teeth. [] A woman who says she worked as a secretary for California Governor Gavin Newsom is alleging an affair with him, and she claims former Vice President Kamala Harris knew about it. [b]

Carrie That's a serious allegation about two of the biggest names in Democratic politics. [] And here's where we have to be straight with you. [] What reached us was the headline only. [b]

Cosmo Right. [] No article body, no dates, no corroborating detail, and no response from either Newsom or Harris. [b] So we're telling you it's out there, and we are not going a single inch further than the reporting supports. []

Carrie That's the right call, and we'll follow it. [] There's a second headline in that same category, and it's a strange one. [] An opinion piece argues that Iran wants to kill First Lady Melania Trump, and that the assassination video Iran put out is absurd propaganda. []

Cosmo That's commentary, not reporting, and again all we received was the headline. [] No detail on the video, no date, no confirmation from anyone in the United States government. [] We're noting it and leaving it there. []

Carrie On the media front, Fox Nation is promoting a special about the career of Senator Lindsey Graham, who is very much still serving. [a] That's an announcement, not news, but it tells you where conservative media attention is pointed this week. [a]

Cosmo The Washington Times, meanwhile, has been running a paid advertising supplement titled American Energy Unleashed. [c] That is promotional content too, not reporting, and we think you deserve to hear the difference called out. [c]

Carrie Being honest about what's a story and what's a sales pitch is part of the job. [] Let's go overseas, because that's where today's real news lives. []

Cosmo It does. [] The most consequential story on the board is in southern Lebanon. [d] In the village of Zawtar al Gharbieh, two residents, Mahasen Faqih and her husband Mohammed Sobeih, returned to their home yesterday, July twenty-eighth, after an Israeli military operation. [d]

Carrie And the home is gone. [d] Reduced to rubble. [d] That comes to us through a single wire photograph, and the picture shows the two of them standing in the middle of the devastation. [d]

Cosmo Here is why that matters. [] This is the human cost of the operation, measured one family at a time. [d] Civilian homes are destroyed, residents are displaced, and people walk back to a foundation and not much else. [d]

Carrie It's worth sitting with that image for a second. [] What we received carried no broader casualty count and no operational account from the Israeli military, so we're not going to guess at the scope. [d]

Cosmo What we can say plainly is that the conflict in southern Lebanon is still producing destruction on the ground, and that's the thread to watch through the rest of this week. [d]

Carrie Agreed. [] Closer to home now, and Utah is quiet today. [g][h][i]

Cosmo Genuinely quiet. [] Nothing came across in the past day on state politics, no public safety incident, and no weather event that rose to the level of a headline. [g][h][i]

Carrie The one Utah item we do have is an obituary. [j] Craig C Robbins of Salt Lake City passed away Saturday, July twenty-fifth, at the age of seventy-nine. [j]

Cosmo A memorial service is set for Tuesday, August eighteenth, at eleven in the morning, at the Wheeler Sundberg Funeral Home on South Main Street in Orem. [j]

Carrie Our condolences to his family and friends. [] And a quick note on how we work. [] When a day comes in this thin, we tell you so rather than dressing it up. []

Cosmo We would rather bring you three real stories than pad this out with invented detail. [] That's Top News Headlines for Wednesday. [] We'll be back tomorrow with more. []

Carrie Thanks for listening, everybody. [] Take care of each other. []

Cosmo Welcome back to Top News Headlines. [] It's Tuesday, July twenty-eighth, twenty twenty-six, and we're starting with a headline that got a lot of attention overnight. []

Carrie The biggest national story today is this. [] Fox News is promoting an exclusive sit-down interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Hannity. [a]

Cosmo That's a big booking. [] And notably, the network hasn't announced a date, a time, or the topics they plan to cover. [a] Just the interview itself. [a]

Carrie And that tells you something. [] When a foreign head of government sits down with an American prime-time program, the agenda usually reveals itself in the moment. []

Cosmo I'd also watch the timing here. [] Netanyahu is lining up American television while his own military is very much in the news abroad. [a][d]

Carrie That's the thread, and it carries us right into our world coverage. []

Cosmo It does. [] So let's go there. [] The lead story overseas is Lebanon, and specifically the village of Zawtar al Gharbieh. [d]

Carrie This one comes to us from a photographer on the ground today, and the picture tells it. [d] A resident named Mahasen Faqih returned to her home after an Israeli military operation and found the neighborhood in rubble. [d]

Cosmo Her house was destroyed. [d] That's the whole story in a single image. [d] One woman standing in what used to be her street. [d]

Carrie And I want to be careful here, because the military hasn't described what the operation involved. [d] What we can report is the damage to homes and the cost to the people living in them. [d]

Cosmo That's the honest way to say it. [] We know what the camera saw. [d] We don't yet know the full military picture. [d]

Carrie But hold that next to our first story. [] The Israeli Prime Minister is lining up questions on American television while scenes like this one are coming out of southern Lebanon. [a][d]

Cosmo Those two stories are going to collide. [] That's the conversation to watch this week. []

Carrie Agreed. [] Let's bring it home to Utah. []

Cosmo Locally, we have a community notice worth passing along. [] Craig C Robbins of Salt Lake City has died at the age of seventy-nine. [j]

Carrie He passed away Saturday, July twenty-fifth, according to the funeral home notice. [j]

Cosmo And for anyone who knew him, the memorial service is set for Tuesday, August eighteenth, at eleven in the morning. [j]

Carrie That's at the Wheeler Sundberg Funeral Home on South Main Street in Orem. [j]

Cosmo Worth writing down if he was your family or your neighbor. []

Carrie And a quick note on our Utah coverage today. [] It was a thin news day on the local wire, so rather than pad the segment, we're giving you only what we can actually stand behind. []

Cosmo That's the right call. [] We'd rather be short and accurate than long and loose. []

Carrie So that's your Tuesday. [] A prime-time interview coming with the Israeli Prime Minister, destruction on the ground in southern Lebanon, and a quiet day close to home. []

Cosmo We'll be watching all three. [] Thanks for listening to Top News Headlines. [] We'll see you tomorrow. []

W E L C O M E IN. It's Monday, July twenty-seventh, twenty twenty-six. []

Today's rundown is a short one, so let's get right to it. []

On the national side, the one item we can actually stand behind is a consumer story. [] Apple has started its back-to-school promotion. [a]

The listing we have quotes discounts running as high as seventy-nine percent, across Mac Books, iPads, and Air Pods. [a]

That number is high enough that I'd read it as an advertised maximum on a handful of items, not what you'll pay for a new laptop. [] We also don't have the start and end dates, or the eligibility rules. [a]

So treat this as a heads-up, not a shopping guide. [] Check Apple's own page before you spend anything. []

There's one more national item worth naming, even though we can't do much with it. [] A candidate in Missouri has been accused of funneling one hundred sixty-five thousand dollars out of a terminated state campaign. []

That's the headline, and that's all we have. [] No names, no filings, no response from the person accused. [] So we're flagging it rather than reporting it, and we'll pick it up when there's something solid behind it. []

On the world desk, I'll give it to you plain. [] We have one item, and it's thin. []

We found a report that as the war expands, President Trump insists the United States is winning what he called the skirmish with Iran. [] That's a headline and nothing more. [] No details we could confirm, nothing from Reuters, nothing from the Associated Press to put around it. []

So we're passing on it today rather than building sixty seconds out of a single line. [] That's the rule every day. [] When there's a major international story we can source properly, we lead with it. [] Today we can't, so we move on. []

And that brings us to Utah, where we do have something real. []

Utah Lake. [j] Friday evening, right around seven o'clock, a wind storm kicked up. [j] Strong gusts, rough water, and three paddleboarders got pushed away from shore. [j]

A twenty-one-year-old man, a seventeen-year-old boy, and a sixteen-year-old girl. [j] Once that wind caught them, they simply could not get back in. [j]

Saratoga Springs Fire and Rescue responded, along with state park staff, and the crews got all three out of the water. [j]

All three were rescued safely, and no injuries were reported. [j] Here's the detail that matters, though. [] Only two of them were wearing life jackets. [j]

That's the whole lesson right there. [] Utah Lake is shallow, it is wide, and wind builds waves fast. []

A calm evening on that water can turn on you in minutes. [] Wear the jacket. [] Every time. [] It weighs nothing and it does everything. []

Good outcome, good response, and a real reminder heading into the rest of the summer. []

That's our rundown for Monday. [] Light on national and world news, but solid on Utah. []

We'll be back tomorrow with more. [] Thanks for listening. []

Cosmo Welcome in. [] It's Sunday, July twenty-sixth, twenty twenty-six, and this is Top News Headlines. []

Carrie Good to be here. [] And I'll be honest with our listeners right up front . today's briefing is a short one. []

Cosmo It is. [] A lot of what came across our desk this morning didn't carry hard reporting. [] Promotional pages, sign-up screens, ad supplements. [] Not news. []

Carrie Right. [] And we're not going to pad the show with things we can't stand behind. [] So on the national side, here's what we actually have. []

Cosmo Fox Nation is promoting a new streaming program about Senator Lindsey Graham. [a] All we have is the title, so that's an announcement of a program, not a report of an event. [a]

Carrie We also saw a headline out of New York . Zohran Mamdani was asked about antisemitism, and in his answer he called comments by Prime Minister Netanyahu, in his words, objective facts. [a]

Cosmo That's the headline, and that's all of it. [a] We don't have the article behind it, so we're not going to characterize what was said or in what context. [a]

Carrie And The Washington Times ran a special advertising supplement called American Energy Unleashed. [c] That's advertising, not the newsroom. [c]

Cosmo On the world desk, the honest answer is we came up empty. []

Carrie We did. [] No wire copy from Reuters or the Associated Press landed in today's material, and nothing came in from the international pages either. []

Cosmo So no conflicts, no summits, no elections to report. [] We'd rather tell you that plainly than invent something to fill the space. []

Carrie Agreed. [] The world desk will be back tomorrow. []

Cosmo Which brings us to Utah, and this is the one real story we have today . and it's a good one. []

Carrie It is. [] Utah is joining Texas, Florida, and a handful of other states in a summer push to get boaters and paddleboarders wearing life jackets. [j]

Cosmo And the interesting part isn't the campaign itself. [] It's that officials say the message isn't landing. [j]

Carrie That's it exactly. [] An officer with the state Department of Natural Resources law enforcement division laid out the puzzle this way. [j]

Cosmo Which is what, specifically? []

Carrie That helmets won. [j] Go to a ski resort, everybody's wearing one. [j] Mountain biking, motorcycles, same thing. [j] The helmet became normal. [j]

Cosmo But the life jacket never made that jump. [j]

Carrie It never did. [] Same safety logic, same kind of message, and boating just hasn't gotten there. [j]

Cosmo That's a culture problem, not an information problem. [j] People know the jacket works. [] They're choosing not to wear it. []

Carrie And that's why several states are pushing at once this summer. [j] If you're headed to a reservoir this week, take that as your reminder. []

Cosmo Put the jacket on. [] That's our briefing for Sunday. []

Carrie Thin day, but an honest one. [] We'll see you tomorrow. []

Cosmo Welcome back to Top News Headlines. [] It's Saturday, July twenty-fifth, twenty twenty-six, and we've got a lean but pointed slate today. [] Let's start at home. []

Carrie We start with the courts. [] An appeals court has overturned a lower court's decision to release the pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi. [f] That reversal puts his release back in question. [f]

Cosmo That's the kind of ruling that ripples outward. [] When appeals courts undo detention decisions, they set the tone for a whole line of similar cases working their way up. []

Carrie Exactly. [] And the details beyond the reversal itself are thin right now, so we'll flag it and watch it rather than guess at where it lands. [f]

Cosmo Fair. [] The other domestic note is a scheduling one, and it matters because of who's talking. [] Fox News says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will appear on Sunday Morning Futures tomorrow at ten in the morning. [a]

Carrie A sitting foreign head of government on American Sunday television. [a] No topic announced, which honestly makes it more interesting. [a]

Cosmo Right, and that leads us straight into the world file. [] So what have we got? []

Carrie The Associated Press has photographs today from the village of Sarra, near Nablus, in the West Bank. [d] They show a Palestinian man cleaning out a damaged room after an attack by Israeli settlers the day before. [d]

Cosmo Photographer Leo Correa took those pictures. [d] And this is the pattern worth holding onto . property damage documented on the ground, incident by incident, in the occupied West Bank. [d]

Carrie In those images it isn't an abstraction. [] It's one house, one room, one family cleaning up. [d]

Cosmo And that's the thread running through today. [] Netanyahu on American airwaves tomorrow morning, a settler attack in the West Bank photographed today, an American court fight over a pro-Palestinian activist. [a][d][f] Three stories, one center of gravity. []

Carrie Which is why tomorrow's interview is worth ten o'clock of your morning. [a] Same region, three very different views of it. []

Cosmo Well said. [] Let's bring it home to Utah. []

Carrie This one's a small story with real teeth. [] K P C W reports the Lieutenant Governor's Office has rejected a proposal for a new town called Bear Canyon, on the Wasatch County side of Provo Canyon. [j]

Cosmo Rejected how firmly? []

Carrie Firmly. [] The office sent a letter last week rescinding the feasibility request entirely. [j] That request had only been issued on June twenty-fifth. [j]

Cosmo And the reason is beautifully technical. [] The proposed boundaries didn't satisfy the Utah Population Committee's requirements. [j] Specifically, they failed to meet the statutory definition of contiguous under Utah code. [j]

Carrie Contiguous. [j] One word, and the whole town proposal collapses. []

Cosmo That's incorporation law for you. [] If your map has gaps, you don't have a town, you have a wish list. [] And for Wasatch County residents watching development pressure in Provo Canyon, that boundary question is the whole ballgame. []

Carrie Agreed. [] Draw it differently and it could come back. [] But as of today, Bear Canyon is not happening. [j]

Cosmo That's your Saturday rundown. [] Courts, the West Bank, and a canyon that stayed unincorporated. []

Carrie Thanks for listening. [] We'll see you next time on Top News Headlines. []

Cosmo Welcome back to Top News Headlines. [] It's Friday, July twenty-fourth, twenty twenty-six, and we've got a packed rundown for you. []

Carrie We do. [] And I'll be honest with you. [] The national desk is thin this morning, but there's one story with real teeth. []

Cosmo Let's take it. [] Speaker Mike Johnson just wrapped what's being framed as a victorious week in the House. [a] Bills moved. [] His conference held together. []

Carrie That's the win. [] Here's the catch. [] The Senate roadblocks are already lining up. [a] Whatever momentum the Speaker built on the House floor runs straight into the upper chamber, and that's where these bills go to stall. [a]

Cosmo Right. [] A good week in the House doesn't make a law. [] That gap is the whole story of this Congress. []

Carrie And on energy, The Washington Times has been running a series under the banner American Energy Unleashed. [c] It's a signal of where the conversation is headed, even if the policy hasn't landed yet. []

Cosmo Watch that space. [] Let's go overseas. []

Carrie The big one today comes from the Associated Press, and it's out of the West Bank. [d]

Cosmo Palestinian health authorities say at least four Palestinians were killed in the northern West Bank village of Tell, following an Israeli military operation. [d]

Carrie And that was today, Friday. [d] An Associated Press photographer, Majdi Mohammed, photographed Israeli soldiers standing outside Nablus Specialty Hospital in the hours after the operation. [d]

Cosmo That detail matters. [] Soldiers posted outside a hospital is not a routine scene, and it tells you how close this came to the center of civilian life in Nablus. []

Carrie That village is a small one. [] Four dead there is a heavy toll for a place that size. [d]

Cosmo And here is why it matters. [] The northern West Bank has been the pressure point for months now. [] Every operation there raises the temperature. []

Carrie We'll be watching it. [] Let's head home to Utah. []

Cosmo This one is hard. [] Provo Fire Department Captain Spencer Long, his wife Katrina, and their three sons were all killed by a flash flood. [j] The family was on an outing in Wayne County last Friday. [j]

Carrie The whole family. [j] Their three sons were named Reed Vernon, Thayer, and Gage, and the family lived in Mona. [j]

Cosmo Fire Chief Jeremy Headman announced the deaths on Tuesday, at a news conference in Provo City Hall. [j] Captain Long had served with Provo Fire for seventeen years, the last two as captain. [j]

Carrie The chief said his department is heartbroken, and that Spencer was the kind of person who touched everybody. [j]

Cosmo Seventeen years. [j] That is a career built on showing up for other people's worst days. []

Carrie And for Utah listeners, this is the season for it. [] Flash flooding in canyon country moves fast and gives you almost no warning. [] Wayne County is exactly that terrain. []

Cosmo If you are heading into slot canyons or washes this summer, check the forecast upstream, not just where you are standing. []

Carrie Good advice. [] That's your rundown. []

Cosmo Thanks for listening to Top News Headlines. [] We'll see you next time. []

Cosmo Good morning, and welcome to Top News Headlines. [] Today is Thursday, July twenty-third, twenty twenty-six. [] Let's start with the big story out of Washington. []

Carrie And it's a tense one. [] Speaker Mike Johnson is publicly telling President Trump it's time to wrap it up in Iran. []

Cosmo That's a striking message from the top Republican in the House to a president of his own party. [] Johnson wants the Iran engagement brought to a close. []

Carrie Right, and here's the twist. [] Trump is flatly rejecting the idea that the coming midterm elections should shape his decisions on the war. []

Cosmo So you've got the Speaker urging an off-ramp, and the president saying politics won't drive his hand. [] That tension inside the party is the headline this morning. []

Carrie It really is. [] On a lighter note, if you've got kids, back-to-school deals are already rolling out for twenty twenty-six — laptops, backpacks, the whole dorm checklist. [a]

Cosmo Never too early. [] Alright, let's go overseas. []

Carrie Our top international story takes us to the Philippines. [] According to the wire coverage out of Manila, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio is at the Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. [d]

Cosmo That gathering was on Wednesday in Pasay, in Metro Manila. [d] Rubio joined a press conference alongside the region's top diplomats. [d]

Carrie And it underscores where American diplomatic attention is pointed right now — Southeast Asia. [d] Washington is clearly investing in engagement with that bloc. [d]

Cosmo It's multilateral diplomacy in action. [] Getting the Secretary of State face-to-face with those foreign ministers helps set the tone for the region in the months ahead. [d]

Carrie A quieter headline, but a meaningful one. [] Now, closer to home. []

Cosmo Here in Utah, a heartbreaking story out of Provo. [] Provo Fire Chief Jeremy Headman held a news conference Tuesday at Provo City Hall to honor one of his own. [j]

Carrie Fire Captain Spencer Long, his wife Katrina, and their three young sons were all killed in a flash flood in Wayne County on Friday. [j] The family was out recreating together. [j]

Cosmo Five members of one family, gone in a single moment. [j] Their sons were Reed, Thayer, and Gage. [j] The family lived in Mona. [j]

Carrie Long had served the Provo Fire Department for seventeen years, and he'd been a captain for the last two. [j]

Cosmo The chief's words really landed. [] He said, our department is heartbroken, and Spencer was the kind of person that touched everybody. [j]

Carrie Our hearts go out to the Long family, their friends, and everyone at Provo Fire. []

Cosmo That's your headlines for today. [] Thanks for listening, and we'll see you tomorrow. []

Cosmo Welcome in. [] It's Wednesday, July twenty-second, twenty twenty-six, and we are running the top headlines. []

Carrie Let's go. [] And I'll be honest with our listeners up front . the national wire came in thin today. []

Cosmo It did. [] A lot of what landed on our desk was newsletter promotions and advertising supplements, not reporting. [c][e] But there is real news in the pile, and we're starting there. []

Carrie Iran. [] The United States and Iran are climbing the escalation ladder, with strikes and counterstrikes over the Strait of Hormuz. []

Cosmo That's the waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, and it is one of the most consequential stretches of ocean on the planet. [] Strikes going both directions there is a serious turn. []

Carrie And it has landed in Washington. [] House Speaker Mike Johnson has told President Trump to, quote, wrap it up, in Iran. []

Cosmo The president, for his part, is rejecting the idea that the midterm elections are influencing his handling of the war. []

Carrie So you have the Speaker of the House publicly urging the president to bring it to a close, and the president publicly denying that politics is driving any of it. []

Cosmo What we have on both of those is the headline reporting, so we're giving you what the wire gave us and not building on top of it. []

Carrie Agreed. [] Now, to the rest of the desk, and this is where it gets thin. []

Cosmo The Washington Times gave us a special advertising section under the banner "American energy unleashed." [c] It's dated April twenty-second, so it's months old, and it's promotional, not news. [c]

Carrie A paid supplement wears the newspaper's typeface, but it isn't the newsroom's work. [] Fox News was pushing its weekday morning newsletter. [e] Also not a story. []

Cosmo The one consumer item with any substance was a back-to-school roundup for twenty twenty-six . laptops, backpacks, dorm essentials. [a]

Carrie Headline only. [a] No retailers, no prices. [a] So we're flagging it and moving on rather than dressing it up. []

Cosmo To the world desk, where we do have a real story. []

Carrie We do. [] An eight-year-old girl named Arjwan was granted an Israeli passport, and that document let her travel out of the Gaza Strip. [d]

Cosmo She arrived in Nazareth, Israel, to reunite with her sister, Mais Al-Gharam. [d] The two of them were back together on Wednesday, July eighth. [d]

Carrie The passport is the hinge of the whole story. [d] Without that one document, the trip never happens. [d]

Cosmo One child, one piece of paper, one family back together. [d] In a conflict measured in enormous numbers, that's the human scale. []

Carrie And it's worth saying plainly . what we have is a few lines and a photograph, so we're not going to speculate beyond it. []

Cosmo Agreed. [] No inventing context we don't have. []

Carrie Which brings us to Utah, and this is the story of the day. []

Cosmo It is. [] Fire Captain Spencer Long, his wife Katherine, and their sons were killed in a flash flood in Wayne County on Friday. [j]

Carrie An entire family. [j] And on Tuesday, Utah's fire community answered the only way it knows how. [j]

Cosmo Firefighters lined the Interstate Fifteen overpasses across Salt Lake County and Utah County as the procession passed. [j]

Carrie That procession carried the family from the state medical examiner's office in Taylorsville to a funeral home in Spanish Fork. [j]

Cosmo On the Lakeview Parkway overpass, Provo police, firefighters, and their families stood together, with an American flag hanging over the freeway. [j]

Carrie Crews stood together on those overpasses, and nobody had to organize it. [j] They just showed up. []

Cosmo That's the thread today. [] A widening confrontation overseas, a thin news cycle at home, and one enormous local loss. []

Carrie Our thoughts are with the Long family, and with every crew that stood on those overpasses on Tuesday. []

Cosmo Those are your headlines. [] We'll see you next time. []

Cosmo Welcome in. [] It's Tuesday, July twenty-first, twenty twenty-six, and we've got a busy one for you. []

Carrie We do. [] Let's get right into the national picture, because there's real weight here. []

Cosmo There is. [] Fox News is reporting that the Pentagon has now named a third soldier killed in Iran's strikes over the weekend. [e] He was a sergeant from North Carolina. [e]

Carrie A third confirmed death. [e] That's the detail that stops you. [] This was a weekend of American casualties, and the identification process is still unfolding. [e]

Cosmo And that news lands on a president who was very publicly in motion. [] On Sunday, July nineteenth, Trump was at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. [d]

Carrie He saluted Melissa Dombrock, deputy commander of the Air Force's Eighty-Ninth Air Wing, as he walked to Marine One. [d] A quiet image with a lot behind it. []

Cosmo Also on the media front, Fox Nation has released an exclusive documentary on Senator Lindsey Graham, his life and his legacy. [a]

Carrie That's notable timing for a Graham profile, given how much of the conversation right now is about foreign policy. []

Cosmo Which takes us overseas. []

Carrie And overseas, it's the same story. [] Iran's weekend strikes are the through-line, and the fallout is still moving. [e]

Cosmo That's the honest read. [] Beyond the Pentagon naming those three soldiers, we don't have confirmed details, and we're not going to guess at them for you. [e]

Carrie Right. [] This is the biggest story of the day, at home and abroad, and it's one to watch closely as more comes out. []

Cosmo Let's bring it home to Utah, and here's some good news heading into Pioneer Day. []

Carrie Governor Spencer Cox announced Monday that the statewide fireworks ban is not being renewed. [j] That ban was in place for the Fourth of July, and it will not carry into this week. [j]

Cosmo So the authority goes back to your city. [j] Each town now sets its own fireworks restrictions. [j]

Carrie With one caveat. [] The state keeps the power to add restrictions in communities at high risk of wildfire. [j]

Cosmo Here's what Cox said. [] Quote, we were hopeful conditions would improve enough to safely return more decisions to our local communities, and in many parts of Utah, that's exactly what's happened. [j] End quote. []

Carrie So check your city before you light anything. [] The rules are local now, and they will not be the same everywhere. [j]

Cosmo Good advice. [] That's your headlines. []

Carrie Take care of each other out there. [] We'll see you next time. []

Cosmo Welcome in, everybody. [] This is Top News Headlines. [] Today is Monday, July twentieth, twenty twenty-six, and we are starting on the national front. []

Carrie We are, and I will be honest with you, it is a quiet morning on the national side. [] The big conservative outlets are not leading with breaking news so much as with a theme. []

Cosmo And that theme is energy. [c] The Washington Times is running a special feature this cycle on American energy, putting domestic power and production right at the front. [c]

Carrie Right, it is more of a spotlight than a bombshell. [] Fox News is out with its usual weekday rundown, but no single story is carrying the national headlines over the last twenty-four hours. [e]

Cosmo On the lighter side, Apple is running a round of deals this week, with discounts of up to seventy-eight percent on iPads, Macs and more. [a] But it is a light national cycle overall, and we would rather tell you that straight than pad it out. [] Let's head overseas. []

Carrie Overseas is where the weight sits this morning. [] The United States and Iran are climbing what one report calls an escalation ladder, trading strikes and counterstrikes over the Strait of Hormuz. []

Cosmo That is right. [] Coverage describes the United States settling into what is being called a new normal of increased strikes against Iran, framed as an effort to break the impasse over the Strait of Hormuz. []

Carrie Strikes and counterstrikes, back and forth, with that strait at the center of it. [] It is a tense situation, and one worth watching in the days ahead. [] But the story that hits closest to home today is right here. []

Cosmo Utah, and it is a somber one. [] A young man has drowned at Tibble Fork Reservoir. [j] According to the Utah County Sheriff's Office, a swimmer in his twenties went under around six o'clock Sunday evening. [j]

Carrie First responders moved fast, searching the reservoir with every resource they had. [j] Sadly, his body was recovered later that same night. [j] The Sheriff's Office has not yet released his name. [j]

Cosmo It is being described as the latest fatal accident in Utah's outdoors, and it lands as a hard reminder right in the heart of summer. [j]

Carrie It really does. [] Open water can turn dangerous in seconds, even for strong swimmers. [] If you are heading up the canyon to a reservoir this week, wear a life jacket, and keep a close eye on the people you came with. []

Cosmo Well said. [] Our thoughts are with that young man's family today. [] That is your rundown for Monday, July twentieth. []

Carrie Thanks for listening to Top News Headlines. [] We will see you next time. []

Cosmo Good afternoon and welcome to Top News Headlines. [] It's Sunday, July nineteenth, twenty twenty-six, and we've got a lot to get through. []

Carrie We do. [] And the biggest thing on the board today is military, not political. []

Cosmo Right. [] United States Central Command released video footage of an American strike on Iranian soil. [d] This is Central Command's own video, put out publicly. [d]

Carrie That's the part that stands out to me. [] They chose to show it. [d] The footage dates to July twelfth. [d]

Cosmo And the weapon is worth naming. [] It's called a Corsair unmanned surface vessel. [d]

Carrie Surface, meaning it travels on the water. [] There's no crew aboard, and it's destroyed in the attack. [d] It doesn't come back. [d]

Cosmo Exactly. [] The target was Bandar Abbas Naval Base in Iran. [d] That is a significant Iranian naval facility. []

Carrie So why does it matter? [] An unmanned boat striking a naval base means the United States can reach hardened targets without putting a sailor at risk. []

Cosmo And releasing the video is its own message. [] Central Command wanted this seen. [d]

Carrie That carries us straight into the world picture, because a strike on Bandar Abbas is not a local story. []

Cosmo Not even close. [] Iran sits on the Strait of Hormuz, and a naval base there is right at the center of that shipping corridor. []

Carrie We should be straight with our listeners about what we can and can't confirm. [] We have the strike, the date, the weapon, and the target from Central Command. [d]

Cosmo What we do not have is an official Iranian response, or damage figures. [] We're not going to speculate on either. []

Carrie That's the right call. [] When more comes in through the wire services, we'll bring it to you. []

Cosmo One more note from the coverage today. [] The Washington Times ran a special advertising supplement titled American Energy Unleashed. [c]

Carrie That's worth flagging, but it is a paid supplement, not reporting, and we shouldn't read a national trend into it. [c]

Cosmo Fair distinction. [] Let's turn to Utah, and I'll warn you, this one is hard. []

Carrie It is. [] According to the Salt Lake Tribune, five members of a Utah family were killed in a flash flood in Wayne County on Friday night. [j]

Cosmo Provo Fire and Rescue Captain Spencer Long, his wife Katrina, and three of their sons. [j] The boys were Reid, Thayne, and Gage. [j]

Carrie One daughter, Lydia, survived. [j] The department confirmed the captain's death on Saturday evening. [j]

Cosmo Katrina Long had served the public too. [j] She was a former Mona City councilwoman. [j]

Carrie The department posted a statement. [j] They said they are, quote, absolutely heartbroken by the death of Captain Spencer Long and his family, end quote. [j]

Cosmo He was a fire captain. [j] He spent his whole career pulling people out of danger. []

Carrie And here's a reminder for everyone listening. [] Wayne County is red rock country, full of slot canyons and dry washes. [] Flash floods there arrive in minutes, and the rain that causes them can fall miles away. []

Cosmo If you're heading into southern Utah this summer, check the forecast before you go, and get to high ground the moment water starts moving. []

Carrie Our thoughts are with the Long family and with the Provo Fire and Rescue community today. []

Cosmo That's Top News Headlines. [] Thanks for spending a few minutes with us. []

Carrie We'll be back tomorrow. [] Take care of each other. []