The Federal Reserve cut its influential fed funds rate this afternoon for the third time in as many meetings. Follow along with our live coverage of the Fed meeting.

President Donald Trump confirmed today that the US has taken control of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Follow for live updates.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in visiting. The ultrahot super-Earth, descriptively named TOI-561 b, is surrounded by a thick blanket of hot gas that churns above a broiling magma ocean. Fun!

Jones joined the Today family in 2014 and became a third hour cohost in 2019. On the radio show, Jones told Dreyer that she’s had “some of the best laughs of my life” cohosting the third hour with her, Roker, and Craig Melvin over the years.