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On Thursday, millions of Ugandans will go to the polls to vote for president. The front-runners are President Yoweri Museveni, a former guerilla fighter who ousted two dictators, and singer and politician Bobi Wine who is at the forefront of the opposition. The election has been marked by violence and the arrest of opposition figures. Host Marco Werman speaks to The World's reporter Halima Gikandi...

One of the country's most powerful and influential men has died. Hotel and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson was 87. Adelson spent part of his sizable fortune backing conservative candidates and causes, and he was a major donor to President Donald Trump. When it came to the relationship between Washington and Jerusalem, there perhaps was no single person who had as much behind-the-scenes political sw...

The banning of President Donald Trump from several major social media sites has sparked a global conversation about who has the right to regulate speech and what role big platforms should play in policing the web. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World's Lydia Emmanouilidou.

The Trump administration placed Cuba back on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, reversing an Obama-era decision. The World’s Jorge Valencia reports on President-elect Joe Biden’s diplomatic challenges in the Caribbean.

William Burns is President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for CIA director. Former CIA chief John Brennan speaks with The World’s Marco Werman about Burns’ record and whether the CIA can be viewed as apolitical given how the role of intelligence gathering and analysis has been challenged in the hyperpartisan era of Donald Trump.

If the US and China have any hope of getting along, Beijing has warned the US must never treat Taiwan as an independent country. In Beijing’s eyes, the island belongs to China — even though Taiwan effectively runs its own affairs as an independent democratic state. And the US has respected China’s demands for four decades. But now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is upgrading diplomatic ties between...

On her upcoming album "Kawan," Nahawa Doumbia urges her fans, "don't go." In a country that loses hundreds of young men and women to war, poverty and emigration, Doumbia wants to find solutions that will keep them at home. Better job opportunities she says is one way. Host Marco Werman plays a track from "Kawan."

A planned art installation of the Statue of Liberty dedicated to the theme of Black Lives Matter is causing an uproar in Budapest. The statue is small —  just three feet high. But it's proving to be controversial, as The World's Europe Correspondent Orla Barry reports.

The so-called “border wall” was a signature of Donald Trump’s presidency. On Tuesday, with just days left in office, he will head to South Texas to visit the wall and point to what has been constructed — the concrete and steel, which are symbolic of his crackdown on the US immigration system. The World’s immigration editor Monica Campbell offers a reality check on the wall and how some federal jud...

We're still digesting the violent siege on the halls of Congress last week. The World's Sarah Birnbaum looks at how the unrest was portrayed in the American media and common phrases we used to make sense of it all.

Even with all the available videos and images of the storming of the US Capitol, it's still hard to comprehend. Five days after the event, many basic questions remain unanswered. How was this possible and what does this mean for the next 9 days of the Trump Presidency? To explore some of these questions, Host Marco Werman talks with Asha Rangappa. She's a former FBI special agent and a senior lect...

In the United States, more than 350,000 people have died of COVID-19. Worldwide, the death toll is approaching 2 million. Yet as thousands die daily, life continues on as normal in many parts of the US. This "psychic numbing" to the situation at hand is something University of Oregon psychology professor Paul Slovic has studied closely. Host Carol Hills speaks to Slovic from Eugene, Oregon.

The US State Department said it plans to designate Yemen's Houthi rebel movement as a foreign terrorist organization. This comes only days before the end of President Donald Trump's term and complicates peace talks between the Yemen’s government and Houthis, as well as efforts to resolve Yemen's massive humanitarian crisis. The World's Marco Werman speaks with the Norwegian Refugee Council's Yemen...

Guinness World Records has confirmed that Stig Severinsen has broken the world distance record for swimming with fins on just one breath. The Danish freediver held his breath and swam 202 meters, or over 662 feet, underwater in La Paz, Mexico, breaking the previous record by more than 82 feet.

Countries around the world are scrambling to obtain COVID-19 vaccines for their citizens, and China is in a position to provide them. This "vaccine diplomacy" could both improve China's image with relation to the pandemic and shore up its strategic partnerships. Host Marco Werman speaks to Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor and directo...

US President Donald Trump’s remaining days in office have the nation — and the world — on edge. Fiona Hill, Trump’s former top Russia advisor, talks with The World’s host Marco Werman about how vulnerable the US remains to global threats at this precarious moment, as well as the danger posed by a visible, angry movement of Trump supporters ready to bust democratic norms.

Thousands of apple varieties exist around the world. Now, thanks for a serendipitous find in southwest England, a new fruit could soon be added to the list. The World's Carol Hills has the story.

People in the Arab world have been heaping satirical scorn on the US in the wake of the mob attack on Congress. Some sample tweets making the rounds: "Iraq calls on the U.S. regime to respect the principles of democracy, or it will intervene militarily to bring down the dictator."  Some of the most stinging barbs are coming from countries in the Arab world. Carol Hills explores what's behind the m...

Beyond the mayhem at the US Capitol, there was another major story in Washington this week. Democrats took control of the Senate, after both seats in a special runoff election in Georgia went to Democrats. Many of the state's voters who put the Democrats in charge were people of color. The World's Carol Hills talks to WABE reporter Martha Dalton in Atlanta who also reports for our “Every 30 Second...

You don’t hear about it much these days, but polio ravaged the world for decades. It prompted summer lockdowns in the US and paralyzed millions of people around the world. Enter the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Considered the single largest internationally coordinated public health project in history, it launched in 1988 and continues today. The World’s Elana Gordon reports on how the less...

The nation's top infectious disease doctor and incoming medical advisor to Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, says while vaccinations are off to a slower-than-expected start in the US, the country and world could “crush” this pandemic, if enough people get efficacious vaccines like the ones becoming available in the US Host Carol Hills speaks with Fauci about how to do this, lessons from the past, and...

It’s taken years of rare bipartisan cooperation, but now the US has quietly taken a step that threatens consequences for China's actions in Tibet. The policy change was buried in the $900 billion spending bill President Donald Trump signed last month. It says that if Chinese Communist Party officials try to interfere with the reincarnation process of the Dalai Lama, the US will impose economic and...

"Trump's legacy" is the big headline in this week's issue of The Economist. Every Friday we chat with our friends at the magazine and at Economist Radio to find out what stories they're working on and how they're covering them. This week, Jon Fasman, the US digital editor for the magazine, joins us.

Congresswoman Norma Torres, a Democrat who represents California's 35th district, was in the House chamber when the Capitol was breached on Wednesday. She told The World's Carol Hills that what has stayed in her mind since then is "how little [her] life is worth to people like President Trump." She tells The World who needs to be held accountable and how the Biden administration can prevent homela...

We've all seen the images of the breach of the US Capitol building depictuing a mob of pro-Trump extremists, breaking through windows and doors, storming in, ransacking offices, and some even stealing sensitive materials. How was this possible? These moments of instability contain scores of implications for US national security. Host Carol Hills talks with Michèle Flournoy, the undersecretary of d...