Contentious Confirmation Hearings and Migration Deportation Costs

On today’s show: What we know about the figure skaters who were on board the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C. USA Today reports on the reaction to the crash from the skating world.

CNN has a look at how Trump’s Cabinet nominees faced their sharpest bipartisan grilling to date, along with other takeaways from Thursday’s confirmation hearings. 

Juan Forero with the Wall Street Journal describes what recently deported migrants say about how they were treated by U.S. officials.

Plus, tips on how to follow the news in a chaotic time, the force in women’s sports that’s even more powerful than Caitlin Clark, and why people are asking if this could be the year Beyoncé finally wins the Grammy for Album of the Year.

Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.