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A marathon is 26 miles long. An ultramarathon is any race longer than that. When 21 runners died in an ultramarathon race in China a few weeks ago, the racing world was rocked. But as The World’s Rebecca Kanthor reports from Shanghai, even before the tragedy, runners there have been concerned about problems in the sport.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday reversing his predecessor's ban on TikTok and WeChat, two Chinese-owned apps extremely popular in the US. Host Marco Werman has the details.

An investigation by our partners at the public media program Reveal, from The Center for Investigative Reporting, shows that local police authorities were called on migrant children who acted up. The World's host Marco Werman spoke with Laura Morel, one of the reporters involved in the investigation, about what this means for the children.

Joe Biden is taking his first overseas trip as US president this week, heading to the United Kingdom to meet with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The last time an American president was there, thousands took to the streets in protest. This time around, the visit is expected to be a more welcoming affair. The World's Orla Barry reports from London.

Cuban singer and violinist Yilian Cañizares has released a song in celebration of The United Nations World Oceans Day. The song she wrote is called "Yemayá" and it's her tribute to the West African goddess of the sea.

Wrapping up a trip to Guatemala and Mexico, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a clear message to migrants who may feel compelled to migrate to the United States: "Do not come." The World's immigration editor Monica Campbell offers takeaways from this first trip, the challenges of trying to stem migration and the importance of US-Mexico relations in this effort.

Since the jailing of politician Alexei Navalny at the start of the year in Russia, not a week goes by without the arrests of activists or journalists. As protest becomes increasingly dangerous, one young Russian artist is using her work to document a new generation's political awakening. Theo Merz has the story from Moscow.

Palestinians have been accusing Israel of apartheid for years. But in recent months, a leading international human rights watchdog used the term “apartheid,” catapulting it into the mainstream. The World's Sarah Birnbaum asks people with firsthand experience of apartheid in South Africa what they make of the analogy.

Even before the recent fighting between Israel and Hamas, the Gaza Strip's medical infrastructure was verging on collapse. And now things are even more dire. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Dr. Nidal Abu Hadrous, head of neurosurgery at the European Gaza Hospital, about what it was like to treat patients during the fighting and what the situation is like now.

Palm oil is found in vast numbers of products on grocery shelves. In her new book, "Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — and Endangered the World," author Jocelyn Zuckerman traces the long, violent colonial history of palm oil cultivation, which connects every corner of the globe, from the US to the UK to Nigeria to Honduras. In her conversation with host Marco Werman, Zuckerman conn...

Canada is grappling with the aftermath of a deadly attack on a Muslim family. In the city of London, Ontario, on Monday, a man deliberately drove his truck up onto the curb, ramming into a family out for a walk. Four people were killed and one is in the hospital. Police said the attacker deliberately targeted the family because they were Muslim. Canada has witnessed a rise in attacks against Musli...

The criminal underworld was the target of a global operation to distribute an encrypted device network called ANOM. But the sting could ultimately impact any citizen who uses messaging apps. John Scott Railton, senior researcher at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the potential for overreach in the monitoring operation.  

Officials in the US, Australia and Europe on Tuesday for the first time revealed details on a massive criminal gang bust operation that involved law enforcement in more than 16 countries. Dubbed “Trojan Shield” in the US, the operation entailed tricking crime bosses around the world into using an encrypted messaging app that was being secretly run by the FBI. Officials said Tuesday the operation h...

Cities around the world are designing reopening plans and imagining postpandemic life. Human behavior is hard to change, but experts say this is an opportunity to create a new normal. Considering that the UN projects 80% of the world’s population to be living in cities by the end of the century, some say a conversation about the future of cities is more urgently needed now than ever. The World’s B...

The US Supreme Court announced Monday some people with temporary protected status — or TPS — can't apply for a green card without leaving the country first. This temporary protection from deportation is given to people who can't return home — be it because of a natural disaster or political unrest. Thousands of TPS holders have been living in the US for decades and have been looking for a path to...

An entrepreneur from Colombia is marketing a new brand of coffee based on his experiences with US immigration. It's called Deportado Coffee. Manuel Rueda reports on the businessman's complicated relationship with the US and the US government.

Joe Biden campaigned on “no more blank checks for Trump’s favorite dictator’ — Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi. But some human rights activists say that’s just what the Biden administration has done, by requesting $1.3 billion in military aid for Egypt without requiring an improvement in human rights. As The World's Rupa Shenoy reports, now families of those imprisoned in Egypt are looking...

In the West African country of Burkina Faso, two days ago, according to local officials, extremists killed more than 130 civilians. This was the worst terrorist atrocity in the history of the country. The massacre occurred in the village of Solhan in Yagha province, near Burkina Faso's eastern border with Niger, an area that has been under threat of violence from both ISIS- and al-Qaeda-affiliated...

Scientists around the world don’t seem to be reaching any sort of consensus on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. Lack of transparency from China’s government is a key reason for all the uncertainty. It’s an issue Lawrence Wright examines in his newest book: “The Plague Year.” Wright talks with The World’s Marco Werman about how China’s government continues to control the narrative on how th...

When it comes to big-ticket space missions, Venus has been overlooked for the last three decades. Venus researchers now have reason to shake off the identity of "underdog" because NASA has chosen not one but two spacecraft missions to better understand Earth's hot volcanic neighbor. The World's Marco Werman discusses the missions with Venus enthusiast and planetary geologist Paul Byrne at North Ca...

Supporters for right-wing Keiko Fujimori and populist Pedro Castillo cautiously celebrated early Monday as election results came in.

Vice President Kamala Harris was in Guatemala on Monday, her first stop in a mission to work on reducing migration to the US by seeking to improve conditions in Central American countries. Host Marco Werman speaks with Adriana Beltrán of the Washington Office on Latin America, who says the impact of American aid to Guatemala, EL Salvador and Honduras has historically been blunted by corruption.

The Dallas Mavericks are playing in the NBA playoffs tonight. Rooting hard for their team — mascot Mavrello Ballovic, a character that pays homage to the team's long history of Central European stars.

As of June 1, the private company LUMA Energy is now in charge of Puerto Rico’s power authority. It replaces Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) which has struggled with blackouts, bankruptcy, corruption and mismanagement. Puerto Rico is still trying to recover from Hurricane Maria, which destroyed most of the power grid in September 2017. Marco Werman speaks with Cecilio Ortiz Garcia, a...

A new documentary, “The Six,” highlights the lives of the six Chinese survivors aboard the Titanic, what happened to them and why they've been overlooked all these years. The World's Rebecca Kanthor discusses how the filmmakers exposed the racism and xenophobic policies in the US, Canada and UK that changed those Chinese survivors' lives forever.