ScienceABC News reports that beetles damaging forests in Colorado are at the heart of Boulder County’s case before the Supreme Court, which seeks to make oil companies pay for the impacts of climate change.
ScienceABC News reports that beetles damaging forests in Colorado are at the heart of Boulder County’s case before the Supreme Court, which seeks to make oil companies pay for the impacts of climate change.
WorldIndonesia’s drive for food self-sufficiency and zero rice imports has come with a heavy environmental price linked to land burning, development and agricultural expansion. Intensifying El Niño-related drought has fueled widespread fires, ecological damage, cross-border haze and a public-health crisis. The podcast examines why the problem persists and how ASEAN countries might cooperate against the haze.
PoliticsThe FBI arrested Wanying Zhang at Los Angeles International Airport. A criminal complaint alleges that she acted on instructions from Chinese officials to monitor Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s son and charges her with acting as an unregistered foreign agent. Taiwan’s presidential office condemned the alleged conduct as transnational repression.
ScienceKarl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics. The light-based biological technique is used to explore the inner workings of the human brain, with possible future applications in treating diseases including Alzheimer’s.
PoliticsSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election after several days of protests over the housing crisis. Polling indicates a right-wing coalition could remove him from office, while lawmakers rejected proposals to address housing just days before the vote was announced.
PoliticsBrazil’s presidential election has reshaped the political landscape, sending Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, into a runoff after he won 47 percent of the vote ahead of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula represents the left and Bolsonaro the far right. Bolsonaro supporters also made major gains in Congress and the Senate, potentially making governing difficult for the winner.
HealthA suspected pneumonic plague death in Russia’s Far East has raised questions about the risks posed by one of the world’s oldest and most feared infectious diseases. DW examines how serious the situation is, how pneumonic plague spreads and what health officials know so far, with insights from Dr. Amesh Adalja.
PoliticsDemocratic strategist James Carville discusses the party’s strategy for the 2026 midterm campaign and what he hopes Democrats will pursue in the 2028 presidential election.
HealthGovernments worldwide are closely watching reports from Russia about a suspected case of pneumonic plague linked to the death of a laboratory technician. The rare, deadly lung disease also caused the 14th-century Black Death pandemic.
PoliticsFox News host Greg Gutfeld and the Gutfeld panel discuss President Donald Trump publicly calling out Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., over their disagreement about Daylight Saving Time.
Other20:42NBC reports growing outrage at Cornell over disciplinary action involving seven men accused in sexual assault allegations. A horrific school bus crash in Florida killed two people, including a high school student, with more than 30 students aboard. U.S. officials are also monitoring Russia after a woman linked to a plague research lab died last week.
PoliticsAlbertans are preparing to vote on whether the province should begin the legal process for a future binding referendum on leaving Canada. An Ipsos poll conducted about a month before the non-binding vote found that 70% would choose to remain part of Canada. Meanwhile, some separatists have met with US officials, amid conflicting claims about what was discussed.
PoliticsConstitutional law attorney Jonathan Turley discusses on 'America Reports' New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to assign state Attorney General Letitia James to lead the investigation into Cornell University.
SocietyLinsey Davis speaks with bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell about common misconceptions surrounding gun control in the United States and the little-known origins of the Second Amendment.
WorldThe broadcast reports on newly obtained calls between Jane Doe and Cornell fraternity members she accused of rape three weeks after the alleged assault, as campus outrage grows. It also examines the suspected pneumonic-plague death of a Russian lab worker linked to a Siberian research facility and the quarantines prompted by the mystery illness, along with a new threat that prompted Pentagon action.
PoliticsTaiwan’s representative to the United States, Yu Da-lei, said the Chinese Communist Party was manipulating history and trying to claim the narrative around the World War II Flying Tigers after they were mentioned at the Trump-Xi meeting. He stressed that the Republic of China, not the CCP, fought alongside the United States against Japan, and noted that the CCP later fought U.S. forces in the Korean War.
Health13:48A 28-year-old laboratory researcher at Russia’s Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute died from pneumonia of an “unknown” origin. Several others are quarantined in Siberia. Rospotrebnadzor has played down a connection between her death and her work, but the case has raised questions about the form of plague that causes pneumonia.
PoliticsQuebecers are voting in a consequential provincial election in which five parties could win seats in the legislature. The separatist Parti Québécois appears set to take the most seats, even though most Quebecers oppose another referendum. In Alberta, separatists are preparing for a vote on whether to begin the legal process for a binding referendum on leaving Canada.
Science3:07US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics. Their research has helped scientists better understand how the brain works and how the human mind functions.
World1:15Sources say the suspect had planned to attack an earlier flight but abandoned that plan.
World3:27Retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward says rigorous pilot vetting is imperative after reports that the alleged attacker on a FlyDubai flight had previously been banned by Oman Air over concerns about possible extremism.
PoliticsMark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, analyses the first-round results of Brazil’s election. Flavio Bolsonaro and Lula will face each other in a run-off.
WorldThe Yemeni government says its forces are in control of Mokha. Political and conflict analyst Hisham Al-Omeisy examines the latest developments in Yemen.
SocietyFrench high school students returned to the barricades this week as protests over school conditions spread nationwide and unsettled President Emmanuel Macron’s government. Teachers and students mobilized at a lycée in Créteil, southeast of Paris, against staff shortages.