Category: World

Quakes reduce Venezuela tourist town to rubble, leaving economy in tatters.

As the United States grew from a series of small colonies into a global superpower, it took bold, transformative steps on the world stage, but it has also stumbled. On this 250th anniversary, guest moderator William Brangham, Esther Brimmer, Michael Mandelbaum and Robert Zoellick examine America’s global legacy and what history will teach us about President Trump’s foreign policy.

Americans across the East Coast are preparing for one of the hottest Independence Days in recorded history. Triple-digit temperatures have disrupted travel, strained the energy grid and forced some communities to change or cancel planned celebrations. Meanwhile, health authorities in Europe have now linked thousands of excess deaths to record heat. Jeff Goodell joins Amna Nawaz to unpack it all.

In our news wrap Friday, Iran began funeral ceremonies for its late supreme leader, hundreds more in Venezuela have been confirmed dead after last week’s earthquakes, Egypt won its first-ever game in the World Cup’s knockout round, New York is preparing for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s expected wedding, and London’s National Archives says it found a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence.

By some estimates, Russia has taken 1.5 million casualties in its war against Ukraine, including a half million killed since the war began. Now, as Russia runs out of recruits, it is bringing in mercenaries from far away. Special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky reports. A warning: Some images in this story are disturbing.

This weekend marks one year since catastrophic floods at Camp Mystic killed 28 people, most of them young girls. In their final report, state investigators said the camp failed to respond adequately to storm warnings. Today, many parents are still pressing for stronger camp safety standards, even as they honor their daughters’ memories. Amna Nawaz speaks with Lacey and Lars Hollis for more.

As the country celebrates its 250th anniversary, rising seas and coastal erosion are putting some of America’s most historic places at risk. For our ongoing series, Tipping Point, special correspondent Ben Tracy with Climate Central reports from Jamestown, Virginia, where archaeologists are racing to uncover America’s past before it’s washed away.

David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including major Supreme Court decisions and more primary upsets in a busy lead-up to the nation’s 250th anniversary.

This week, PBS News launched “In Pursuit of Happiness,” a six-episode podcast series hosted by Judy Woodruff, exploring the people, culture and ideas that have shaped America. In this clip from the first episode, presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky takes a fresh look at President George Washington and why he believed surrounding himself with competing viewpoints made him a stronger leader.

Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodriguez dismissed criticism of the government’s quake response.

It’s a glitzy window into the role that ostentatious – and almost always gilded — gifts are playing by those seeking to curry favor with the U.S. president.

Monaco authorities say the bomb was detonated remotely.

A three-armed spacecraft blasts into orbit to rescue a NASA telescope in danger of crashing back to Earth.

Egypt beat Australia 4-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw after extra time, and could now face Argentina in the last 16.

Just days after authorities removed 16 siblings from a squalid home and arrested their parents and grandparents, the question looms over their southern Ohio village: How could this have happened, for years, unnoticed, right here?

Launched in 2004, Swift is sinking faster than ever because of recent solar storms.

Georgia’s votes in that year’s presidential race were counted three times, including once by hand, and each count affirmed Democrat Joe Biden’s win.

Khamenei’s flag-draped coffin sat at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla alongside family members killed in the Israeli airstrike that came in the first moments of the war on Feb. 28.

The document is one of only 11 known copies of the Exeter printing, made just days after the original was signed in 1776.

A Capitol Fourth will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States Friday with a live broadcast from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol and fireworks from Mount Vernon.