Category: World

The country is still reeling from devastating pair of earthquakes that killed hundreds of people earlier this week.

Live updates, score and commentary stream as Mohamed Salah’s Egypt play Iran in the final group match in Seattle.

Deal comes after months of US-brokered direct talks, but Israel continues to occupy Lebanese land.

The race to save lives in Venezuela is becoming a race against time. Rescue crews are digging through mountains of rubble, searching for survivors believed to be trapped after two powerful quakes struck just seconds apart. More than 900 people are confirmed dead and tens of thousands remain missing. Nick Schifrin reports.

Following the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, entire neighborhoods have been reduced to ruins across Caracas and the surrounding communities. As the United States, the UN and International aid teams rush into the disaster zone, the true scale of the unfolding catastrophe is only beginning to emerge. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Feature Story News reporter Andreina Fermin in Caracas.

A Supreme Court ruling this week cleared the way for the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians. One of the states that could face the biggest impact is Ohio, where more than 10,000 Haitian migrants have settled. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine called the move a mistake. He joined Amna Nawaz to discuss the ruling and what it means for communities in his state.

The WNBA has suspended Phoenix’s Alyssa Thomas for one game after she made contact with her fist to Caitlin Clark’s throat in Wednesday night’s matchup against Indiana.

On Friday, the U.S. military conducted new strikes against Iran in response to what President Trump said was Tehran’s violation of the ceasefire. Nick Schifirin reports.

In our news wrap Friday, former National Security Adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty to a single count of illegally retaining classified information, Texas education officials voted to require that a selection of stories from the Bible be taught in public schools and Russia says it intercepted more than 600 Ukrainian drones as Kyiv launched one of its largest attacks since the start of the war.

Putin and Ivanov knew each other since the 1970s when they both worked as young KGB officers in their hometown of Leningrad, as St. Petersburg was called during the Soviet times.

The nation’s second-largest school district imposed strict new limits on screen time for its roughly 400,000 students. The Los Angeles Unified School District policy is the latest example of a growing backlash against technology in classrooms nationwide. William Brangham discussed the new rules and the rationale behind them with Nick Melvoin, a member of the Los Angeles School Board.

David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump once again upending the GOP’s agenda in Congress, progressives sweeping the Democratic primaries in New York and Vice President JD Vance’s comments defending Richard Nixon.

Heated games and rough plays sparked a new controversy in the WNBA around its superstar Caitlin Clark. The Phoenix Mercury’s Alyssa Thomas pressed her fist into Clark’s neck during a game. The league retroactively gave Thomas a flagrant foul and suspended her for one game. But questions around the WNBA’s officiating have not quieted. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Seerat Sohi of The Ringer.

Imagine a world 400 years in the future, where a young woman is forced into exile after discovering she carries a rare gene linked to extraordinary power and immortality. That’s the premise of a new opera opening in Cincinnati. PBS stations CET and ThinkTV take us behind the scenes for a look at the project and the new direction it’s taking opera. It’s for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.

Senegal currently hold the fifth-best record of third-place teams based on their plus-2 goal differential.

The strikes came shortly after Trump told reporters, “You’ll find out,” whether the U.S. would respond to a drone attack a day earlier on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Texas education board on Friday approved a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students that includes Bible passages, widening conservative efforts to push Christian teachings in U.S. classrooms.

The military government, in power since 2022 coup, accused France of having ‘neo-colonial ambitions’.

A new report by a Trump administration commission suggests replacing the idea of separating church and state with the idea of building bridges between them.

Louisiana Republicans will nominate a candidate for U.S. Senate in a primary runoff Saturday, six weeks after denying Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy a shot at a third term.