The Excerpt
USA TODAY’s daily news podcast, The Excerpt (formerly 5 Things), brings you a curated mix of the most important headlines seven mornings a week. We also deliver special deep-dive episodes on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons on the most compelling topics in culture, entertainment, sports, politics, and more. Give us fifteen minutes a day, we'll give you all of the headlines, none of the chaos. Hosted by Taylor Wilson and Dana Taylor.
Latest Episode
Adult sleepaway camp and the high cost of feeling like a kid again (24.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Will changes to the H-1B visa program preserve jobs for Americans?
- Why do US students continue to fall behind in reading and math?
- WNBA hits a new peak, but money is still a sticking point
- California Prop 50 voting underway. Will the decision neutralize Texas redistricting?
- John Bolton indicted
- SPECIAL | Is Trump's deployment of the National Guard about order or overreach?
- Voting Rights Act threatened in Supreme Court redistricting case
- SPECIAL | Why Americans are making homegrown GLP-1s
- Another Senate vote fails as the shutdown rolls on
- A triumphant Trump basks in Mideast praise
- All remaining living Israeli hostages released
- MrBeast is hugely successful on YouTube, but with ECU, not so much
- One family, seven hostages, and the end of a two-year nightmare
- New York Attorney General Letitia James indicted
- SPECIAL | Who should decide which books, if any, are banned?
- Hamas and Israel set to sign deal on ceasefire and hostage releases
- SPECIAL | The politics of shutdown
- Trump says some furloughed federal workers ‘don’t deserve’ back pay
- National Guard troops in limbo as Trump battles courts over deployments
- Judge blocks National Guard deployment to Portland, Oregon
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