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Members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party are meeting Disney CEO Bob Iger and other media company heads this week to discuss their relationship with China. It's in response to a provision in the defense bill passed last December that bars government funding to studios that have acquiesced to Chinese demands about the content of their films. Host Marco Werman speaks with...

The US military is facing a recruitment crisis. The US Army missed its target by 25% during the past fiscal year. Other branches of the military are also seeing a drop in recruiting. Military analysts say this personnel shortfall will have ripple effects at a time when overseas missions are increasing in Europe and the Pacific. The World's Daniel Ofman reports.

Surveillance at the US-Mexico border is rapidly increasing, according to new data collected by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The World's host Marco Werman spoke with Dave Maass, director of investigations at EFF, about what the data tells us.

Starting this month, the Japanese government is offering a new incentive to get families in densely populated Tokyo to move out to less populated areas: 1 million yen — about $7,600 — per child. The World’s Bianca Hillier speaks with people in one countryside village who say they could use the population boost.

The criminal investigation into former US President Donald Trump is reverberating on the African continent.  Chris Maroleng, executive director of Good Governance Africa talks with The World’s host Marco Werman about how Trump’s legal woes impact the rule of law in the sub-Saharan region of the continent.

In a quick ceremony in Brussels, Finland was officially accepted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as its 31st member. The Kremlin aired its grievances against the alliance, claiming that troops would be deployed to the area along Russia's border with Finland. The World's host Marco Werman speaks with Retired Admiral James Stavridis about what the new addition to the bloc means.

Journalist Martin Smith, who covered the war in Afghanistan for two decades, recently interviewed US military and Taliban leaders to chronicle the war. Smith speaks with host Marco Werman about a new series of documentaries he made with Marcela Gaviria for PBS FRONTLINE, on how the effort to eliminate al-Qaeda and oust its ruling ally, the Taliban, became America’s longest war — and how it ended i...

Parisians have voted to ban rental electric scooters in their city, dealing a blow to scooter operators and a triumph for road safety campaigners. The referendum was called in response to a rising number of people being injured and killed on e-scooters in the French capital.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, a world-renowned Japanese musician and actor who composed for Hollywood hits, such as “The Last Emperor” and “The Revenant,” passed away last week at the age of 71. The World's host Marco Werman speaks with Michael Bierylo, chair of the electronic production and design department at Berklee College of Music, about his life, musical legacy and his most notable contributions to the...

Scams that play on the heart are as old as dating. But today's internet swindles get the victim unwittingly involved in money laundering and wire fraud. The host of the podcast “Click Here,” Dina Temple-Raston, meets a woman determined not to let those looking for love get taken in.

The fate of Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso is in the hands of the country's national assembly after the constitutional court approved impeachment proceedings against him for acts of corruption. If it votes to remove Lasso, he would be the first Ecuadorian president to be impeached since the country’s return to democracy in 1979. Michael Fox has the story.

Cholera, already endemic to Mozambique, has spread across the country much faster after flooding carried the bacteria deeper into people's everyday lives. Thousands are falling ill and being hospitalized. The World's host Marco Werman talks to Dr. Severin von Xylander, the World Health Organization's country representative to Mozambique, about how the extreme cyclone has affected disease spread.

More than 60 Chinese Christians fleeing government harassment are struggling to reach the US, but they’ve been detained on the way — in Thailand. Thai police arrested the church group on Friday on visa charges. The church’s pastor hopes to claim asylum and settle his group in Texas, but now fears he and his followers could be handed over to Chinese authorities and sent back home to face more perse...

As South Sudanese filmmaker Akuol de Mabior says, it's impossible to separate the story of her family from the story of South Sudan. Mabior is the daughter of John Garang, who is largely considered one of South Sudan's founding fathers. In her documentary, "No Simple Way Home," she turns the lens instead on her mother, Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior, who is continuing the fight for a better South Suda...

Russian authorities detained a 26-year-old native of St. Petersburg after a bomb killed a prominent military blogger in a café on Sunday. Russian officials are accusing Ukraine and Russian opposition activists for the attack. But details about the bombing, its perpetrators and a possible motive remain murky, as Michael Weiss, a senior correspondent at Yahoo News, tells The World’s Marco Werman.

The Museum of Failure started in Sweden back in 2017. It has since traveled the world, displaying more than 150 failed products. But the Museum isn’t about making fun of the inventions. It’s about using them to normalize failure. The World's Bianca Hillier first brought us this story last summer.

Amritpal Singh has been on the run for nearly two weeks, vexing tens of thousands of police looking for him, but also enthralling a nation watching the hunt on television. In his latest video, Singh, a preacher calling for a Sikh homeland called Khalistan, says he'll surrender at a time of his own choosing. Raksha Kumar reports on who is backing this once-little-known preacher and why.

A giant spider sculpture popped up overnight under a Vancouver bridge. The city says it will remove the unsanctioned arachnid. But the artist has started a "Help Save Spidey!" campaign. Host Carol Hills has the story.

While high inflation has long haunted the Argentine economy, it is now reaching excruciating levels. The annual inflation rate has soared past 100%, the highest in 30 years, meaning the price of many goods has more than doubled in a year. Alan Ruiz Terol reports from Buenos Aires.

The ascension of Humza Yousaf to first minister of Scotland is another historic milestone in the UK. He’s the first Muslim and South Asian to hold the position. It also follows Rishi Sunak's rise to Britain's prime minister. The World’s host Carol Hills spoke with Natasha Junejo, host of “The Decolonial Podcast,” about the significance of these political victories for the South Asian community.

Dozens of homeless people die every year in Spain, often on the streets, and usually by themselves. But one small hospice program is trying to make a difference by connecting with homeless people and spending time with them, even at the very end of their lives. Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.

This week, a new anthology of films called "African Folktales, Reimagined" premiered on Netflix. The series of short films was done in partnership with UNESCO as an effort to support more emerging filmmakers from across Africa. The World's Halima Gikandi brings us more from Nairobi, Kenya, where the anthology was officially launched.

A decade of war and recent earthquakes have reduced parts of Syria to rubble, leaving the monumental task of restoring and rebuilding for the Syrian people. A new study shows this process can happen faster through recycling. Scientists say that concrete rubble from toppled buildings can be reused to make new concrete. John Provis, a materials scientist at the University of Sheffield in the UK, tal...

Among the many countries supporting the war effort in Ukraine, the Czech Republic stands out. It was the first foreign country to supply tanks to the Ukrainian military after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion last year. But the NATO member state isn’t just sending heavy machinery. One Czech company that makes military decoys has seen its sales go way up in the last year, as Morgan Childs r...

Both main candidates in Turkey's upcoming presidential election have promised to send hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees back to Syria. Human rights observers warn that Syria is not safe for returnees, but Turkish voters are largely in support. For 3.6 million Syrians living in Turkey, their fate may lie in an election they cannot participate in. Durrie Bouscaren reports.