"Bar Rescue" star Jon Taffer says many restaurants are not only struggling to hire workers in today's economy, but also facing increasing prices for ingredients due to pandemic-related shortages.

China is defending an incident this weekend where one of their ships buzzed an American military vessel. Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says it's proof China's new military regime is more aggressive. China claims it's responding to American aggravations.

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) President Maria Lehman says there are a lot of questions that need to be answered about the Iowa apartment building collapse. Lehman says without national infrastructure standards, it’s “kind of a free for all out there.”

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Authorities in Tennessee arrested a woman accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill the wife of the man she met on the dating website Match.com. Prosecutors say Melody Sasser allegedly tracked the woman using a fitness app and sent real-time information to a fake assassination website. According to court documents, she paid the website around $9,700 worth of Bitcoin. NewsNation law and justice contributor Jennifer Coffindaffer discusses the case.

Aderrien Murry, 11, was shot by Mississippi police after calling 911 to help his mother. Nakala Murry joined "NewsNation Prime" to share her son's story, saying she wants the officer responsible fired and arrested.

Dan Evans, associate administrator for research at NASA, joins "NewsNation Prime" to discuss the expert panel established to look into recent UFO sightings, saying there is most likely life in the universe, but that this research is separate from the issue of UFO sightings.