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Hello and welcome to Non-Zero World.

I'm your host, Connor Eccles.

Later in this episode, I'm going to talk to Non-Zero Editor-in--chief Robert Wright about the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term in office with a particular focus on foreign policy, and that will, of course, include a lot of discussion of the big news of this week, which is Trump's decision to fire his national security advisor, Michael Waltz.

But before we get into

that whole conversation, here are a few of the headlines that caught our attention.

A $67 million fighter jet fell off a U.S. aircraft carrier and sank, apparently as the carrier was making a sharp turn in response to

Houthi missile fire. On the same day, bombs from another U.S. jet hit a migrant detention

facility in northern Yemen, killing at least 68 civilians and wounding many more, according to

aid workers and Houthi spokespeople. The Trump administration has now struck more than 800 targets

in Yemen without achieving its stated goal of stopping Houthi attacks on commercial ships in the

Red Sea. Attacks the Houthis say they will end if Israel ends its war in Gaza. Fifty-four percent of

Americans say the United States is in a constitutional crisis, according to a new poll from UGov and The Economist.

A similar survey from Elon University found that 67% of Americans are very or somewhat concerned about a constitutional crisis,

which the poll described as, quote, a situation in which the executive branch and the courts

strongly disagree over their constitutional powers, and neither side backs down, end quote.

In both polls, Democrats were significantly more concerned than Republicans.

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