The Morning Drop

Trump just promised every American $5,000, but only if his party wins in November, and it's raising some uncomfortable questions about what to call that. Plus, Apple unveils its first folding iPhone at a price that might make you rethink that cracked s...

Mayor Mamdani just cracked open 25 years of records on the air at Ground Zero, and City Hall doesn't look good. Mexican football made Ballon d'Or history three times over in one shortlist, while gas prices did something they've never done on a Labor Da...

Bad Bunny just swept the Creative Arts Emmys and is now halfway to EGOT status, but that’s not even the most surprising news of the week. Democrats and Republicans somehow found something to agree on: nobody wants an AI data center next door. Plus, wha...

Gloria Steinem, Lindsay Clancy, and Venezuela's newest oil deal all made headlines this week, and each one goes deeper than the top-line news. We're breaking down what a stalled jury means for one of the country's most closely watched trials, why a hun...

Today's drop covers a lot of ground, from oil prices spiking over new threats of war with Iran to a food recall crisis hitting your fridge right now. Plus, the AI cameras tracking your license plate on every drive, and the federal data quietly disappea...

Today’s drop covers a lot of ground, from a policy rollback that could reshape 60 million acres of national forest to Bad Bunny closing out his historic world tour exactly where it started. Plus, what one film professor wants every incoming student to ...

Luigi Mangione just admitted, in his own words, to killing a healthcare CEO, but his legal fight is far from over. Puerto Rico is rationing water for more than 180,000 U.S. citizens, and we ask why it isn't getting the coverage it deserves. Plus, a Car...

Families of U.S. sailors stationed on the USS Abraham Lincoln are speaking out about broken toilets, mounting exhaustion, and a mental health crisis nobody in Washington seems ready to fix. At the same time, ICE is preparing to spend millions on a cont...

Today we cover the news shaping your morning — the Big Sur wildfire, the Colombia earthquake, LA schools going screen-free, and the Perseid meteor shower peaking tonight. Then we have three stories you didn’t see coming: a 97-year-old named Betty who s...

Trump's new attorney general is confirmed, a prediction market giant faces a $36 billion lawsuit from New York, and the U.S. is reshaping Latin America in ways that look nothing like the covert operations of the Cold War. This episode connects the dots...

Trump is making another move on birthright citizenship, and this time, he says it will hold up. Dating in 2026 now costs an average of $189, and someone gave it a name. Plus, Spider-Man just broke records that Marvel fans didn't know were breakable. In...

Haitian TPS officially ended July 27. If you or someone you love had it, this episode has the information you need right now. A 67-year-old Colombian woman turned neighborhood chisme into a real estate portfolio, Vin Diesel says the final Fast and Furi...

For the first time in fifty years, Mexico's inflation is lower than the United States', and what that means for Mexican Americans goes beyond the number. Then there's the Forbes list of the 20 highest-paid podcasters, which somehow has no room for Opra...

Gas hit $4 a gallon this week, and it's directly connected to a conflict that just pulled Egypt into the Middle East for the first time. Meanwhile, two separate AI companies revealed their models broke out of secure testing environments during cybersec...

Karol G turned a Chicago stadium sign into a honeymoon for the ages, and the couple didn’t even have to ask twice. Plus: Arizona State just launched a bachelor’s degree in content creation, and the internet is not okay with it. And in today’s drop, LA’...

A congressman held up a Latina Power hat in a Smithsonian hearing and asked whether a federal museum should be selling it. The answer is 80 years long. Plus, The Cut named a trend Gen Z women know all too well, and Gustavo went to the Laemmle for the L...

Japan's office dress code debate just gave the internet a new term: sunehara — leg hair harassment. Meanwhile, Andrew and Tristan Tate are now facing 59 criminal charges, with fresh ties to Trump's Washington coming to light. And if you ever went to th...

Some countries are out here passing laws for four-day workweeks and mailing pregnant women a full box of baby gear, while the U.S. remains the only high-income country with zero federally mandated paid parental leave. Christopher Nolan just had his big...

Spain just won the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and 19-year-old Lamine Yamal cemented his place in football history at an age when most pros are just getting started. Back in the dystopian U.S., Pete Hegseth named his testosterone testing mandate "The High T D...

The American Dream of homeownership is getting harder to reach. According to the Federal Reserve, as reported by Fortune, 49% of adults under 30 lived with a parent in 2025 — up 12% from 2019. About 70% of that group is employed. The problem isn't work...

Good morning, fam. Today on The Morning Drop, three stories worth waking up for. Liam breaks down why Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey just broke the biggest IMAX presale record in history — and why getting a ticket is about more than seeing a movie. Th...

Yamily opens with the news that stopped Washington this weekend. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican from South Carolina, died Saturday evening at 71 after what his office called "a brief and sudden illness." Yamily walks us through who he was: more tha...

Four things on the drop today: a Trump intervention that backfired, six weeks of parasocial attachment, a betting app you didn't realize you downloaded, and a corruption investigation with the worst possible timing. Alejo opens with the most American e...

Three things on the drop today: grief, urgency, and a very expensive NDA. Miranda Montenegro opens with everything Mexican households needed to hear after the weekend. México didn't win the match, but as Miranda puts it, it's never about losing. It's a...

Welcome to The Morning Drop, mitú's first audio-only podcast — your three-times-a-week group chat with the team about everything you need to know before you log in. Put it on with your coffee. Play it on your commute. We're showing up so you stay pilas...