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🎧 Tierra Carter, who works at the Social Security Administration, tells NPR's Andrea Hsu that she’s had to take out loans and seek a hardship withdrawal from her 401(k) due to the shutdown. Carter says it feels as if she is trying to swim to the top of a pool, but every time she gets to the middle, she is knocked back down. Hsu tells Up First that if the shutdown continues, experts believe the general public will begin to feel the economic effects in their communities. Grocery stores near federal buildings are already experiencing less foot traffic.

🎧 This case is a big deal because the scandal involves leaks from multiple teams and players or coaches allegedly sharing non-public information with gamblers, says NPR’s Becky Sullivan. The scheme came to light thanks to monitoring services that track bets and look for unusual patterns. For example, Rozier allegedly told a friend he would withdraw from a game with an injury, which led that friend to sell the information to a gambler. As a result, organized bettors placed about a quarter of a million dollars on proposition bets predicting Rozier would underperform.

🎧 The sanctions are significant as they mark the first time Trump has followed through on threats to hold Russia accountable for the war, Maynes says. The idea for the summit came after a phone call Putin initiated with Trump. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was set to meet with Trump about the possibility of the U.S. providing Ukraine with long-range weapons. Trump decided not to give the weapons to Ukraine and said he’d meet with Putin instead. Putin informed reporters last night that the canceled meeting and sanctions undermined recent progress in restoring relations with the U.S.