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Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
From the newsroom of WBAI 99.5FM in New York City, Pacifica Headlines provides a 5-minute rundown of the most important stories from around the world. Priority is given to subjects that may be underreported in mainstream news coverage.
Episodes
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | November 11, 2026
Israeli forces reportedly kill 7 Palestinians yesterday in the Gaza Strip including a father and his 13-year-old son, Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells G7…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | November 10, 2026
8-year-old Haitian boy taken into federal custody after an immigration check-in in downtown San Diego, despite describing his own immigration policy as too…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | November 9, 2026
Israel's president Isaac Herzog gives the country's former military chief Gadi Eisenkot the first opportunity to form a new government after the Oct. 27…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | November 6, 2026
Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman defeats former chair of the Black Congressional Caucus Karen Bass to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, Texas…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | November 5, 2026
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida calls Tuesday's midterm election results "close to an extinction-level event," President Trump appears to agree…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | November 4, 2026
Democrats win back both the Senate and the House of Representatives in decisive victories that extended into states long thought to not be in play, NBC news…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | November 3, 2026
Americans head to the polls for midterm elections in all 50 states, Supreme Court swiftly rejects request by the Trump administration to require that…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | November 2, 2026
Michigan Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens who lost the Senate primary to progressive candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in a bitterly contested race surprises…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 30, 2026
Venezuelan opposition leader Mara Corina Machado makes her first public remarks yesterday since her return to the country from exile earlier this week, interim…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 29, 2026
Houthi forces say Saudi-led airstrikes killed 14 people today in a busy market in northern Yemen, Yemeni government forces claim a Houthi missile strike…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 28, 2026
Exit polls show no clear winner in yesterday's national elections in Israel with neither longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or former IDF chief of…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 27, 2026
Israelis head to the polls today for the first time since Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, UN Independent Commission says Israel continues to commit genocidal acts…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 26, 2026
Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wins presidential election, Lula's challenger the right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro says he will…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 23, 2026
President Trump refuses to comment on whether he personally asked SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to reinstate full access to Starshield--a military-grade version of the…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 22, 2026
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff calls Russian President Vladimir Putin a humanitarian, Putin frees retired US schoolteacher Stephen Hubbard in custody since…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 21, 2026
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reportedly ordered the slowdown of Starshield--a military-grade version of the satellite internet network Starlink relied on by Ukraine in…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 20, 2026
Japan's Martian Moons Exploration spacecraft departs on world's first mission to bring back samples from Phobos--the moon orbiting Mars, Ukrainian President…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 19, 2026
1 civilian reportedly killed and 5 wounded by Houthi shelling in Yemen as government forces retook Sanamat and advanced on Misrakh south of Taiz, local…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 16, 2026
Order to limit Starshield--the satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations--came from the White House unnamed…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 15, 2026
Israeli forces attack the municipalities of al-Mansouri and Majdal Zoun in southern Lebanon with artillery shelling, UK's expanded sanction regime targeting…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 14, 2026
Elon Musk's company SpaceX introduces limit on Starlink services in Ukraine disrupting combat drone missions, 600,000 in Kyiv without power following…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 13, 2026
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham tells Parliament that a suspected plot targeting the RAF Fairford air base in Britain was "highly likely" to have been…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 12, 2026
13 people reportedly killed in 2 Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia's main air hub, Saudi aircraft strike airport in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, a child is killed…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 9, 2026
Israeli strikes kill 8 people in Gaza yesterday, 45 people arrested in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers injure at least 26 attacking olive harvesters…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 8, 2026
Kenya reports its first Ebola case as Congo surpasses 4,000 deaths from the ongoing outbreak--the country's worst on record, Russian strikes across Ukraine…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 7, 2026
Israelis commemorate the 3-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack that reportedly killed 1,200, led to over 251 local residents taken hostage, and…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 6, 2026
US withdraws all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from the R.A.F. Fairford airbase following intelligence reports of a potential drone attack from Iran, US government…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 5, 2026
5,000 supporters of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan begin a protest march to Islamabad, Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces seize key…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 2, 2026
25-year-old UK-Iranian dual national arrested on suspicion of plotting Sundays attempted attack on RAF Fairford, Pentagon is sending an additional 9,000 to…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | October 1, 2026
President Trump once again appears to threaten Iran with nuclear annihilation at an Oval Office press conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 30, 2026
Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal says Russia behind mid-August attack on Milrem Robotic which supplies Ukraine with unmanned military vehicles, 9…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 29, 2026
Head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing Lawrence Taylor announces that the 5 suspects arrested in connection with the attempted attack on a US-controlled airbase…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 28, 2026
British police detail 5 men on suspicion of explosives and terrorism offenses after receiving a tip that 3 large white vans were seen heading to the military…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 25, 2026
Dozens of delegates walk out for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus speech at the UN General Assembly chanting pro-Palestine slogans, 100 activists…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 24, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says his country is open to a limited ceasefire with Russia on energy and grain targets, US invites Russian President…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 23, 2026
President Trump threatens to "annihilate" Iran in address to the UN general assembly hours before US and Iranian officials meet for diplomatic talks, UK Prime…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 22, 2026
UN reports nearly nearly 700 people killed and over 130,000 Yemenis displaced by renewed fighting between Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi-aligned government…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 21, 2026
541,000 Gazan students begin their new school year in tents, 4 Palestinians including a child and the son of Gazas health chief reportedly killed in a wave of…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 18, 2026
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rally today in Tehran as part of a government effort to encourage military enlistment, Iranian forces say they attacked a…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 17, 2026
Iran-backed Houthi fighters continue swift advance along the Red Sea in Yemen, President Trump tells reporters, "well, hopefully we are towards the end of the…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 16, 2026
Saudi Arabian military claims to hgave destroyed a Houthi drone just south of Mecca, House of Representatives holds third successful vote to end the war in…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 15, 2026
Iran-backed Houthis fire dozens of missiles and drones at military airbase in Saudi Arabia, fuel shortage in Yemen complicates mass exodus from the country as…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 14, 2026
Government officials in Iran say 1 person was killed and 4 crew members wounded aboard an Iranian commercial vessel struck off the country's coast, Israeli…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 11, 2026
Israeli forces blow up a tunnel under the Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon government officials say was nerve center of Hezbollah's Badr regional division…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 10, 2026
Yemeni government blames Iran-backed Houthi fighters for an artillery attack that killed 3 children, Houthis vow to retaliate for what they claim were 54 Saudi…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 9, 2026
Saudi Arabian warplanes carry out a series of air strikes across Yemen, Israeli forces and settlers kill 4 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Israel's…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 8, 2026
Russia resumes attacks on Kyiv killing two people, Saudi Arabian government vows to retaliate against Yemen's Houthi militia after attacks by the group injure…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 7, 2026
Israeli strikes on the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Reman kill 11 people including 2 infants and 2 first responders, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 4, 2026
Rescuers in Nepal pull 2 workers alive from a hydropower tunnel 9 days after floods devastated the region killing 300 people and leaving over 5,600 missing in…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 3, 2026
Israeli troops fatally shoot 2 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, IDF forces fire tear gas into a mosque in the occupied West Bank in the 13th attack on…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 2, 2026
US attack on Iran reportedly kills 5 people and wounds 50 civilians at a wedding, Iran's IRGC Navy claims 2 oil tankers hit sea mines and were disabled while…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | September 1, 2026
Sixth day of Russian airstrikes in Kyiv reportedly kill 12 people, the death toll for last week's glacier collapse on the China-Nepal border surpasses 1,000…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | August 31, 2026
Combined deaths in Nepal and China from last week's flood surpass 900 with more than 4,700 people missing, US forces launch on attack Iran's Larak Island in…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | August 28, 2026
US approval of the war with Iran falls to its lowest level since the conflict's early days in new Reuters/Ipsos poll, Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei says…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | August 27, 2026
Palestinian ambassador to the UN Ryad Mansour says Israel has taken an irreversible step towards full-scale annexation of Palestinian territory, Israel is…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | August 26, 2026
Israeli forces raid UN Training Centre in East Jerusalem, 7 Palestinians killed and 10 wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the last 24 hours, thousands…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | August 25, 2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announces new round of economic sanctions on Iran and its allies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims the Iranian…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | August 24, 2026
Israeli airstrikes yesterday in the central Gaza Strip kill 3 people including a 4-year-old boy, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expected to announce…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | August 21, 2026
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee criticises Israeli settlers on religious grounds, 30 "pioneer families" arrive in the the settlement of Kadim in the…
- Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent
Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines | August 20, 2026
Russian ballistic missile attack this morning kills 14 people across Kyiv, Israeli strikes kill at least 10 Palestinians yesterday in attacks targeting a Gaza…