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  • India's Honk-Happy Drivers Switch To Even Louder Horns

    India's Honk-Happy Drivers Switch To Even Louder Horns
    2025/09/12

    Indian cities are noisy – very noisy. And now drivers are buying louder horns so they can be heard above the din. But that’s adding to noise pollution in cities like Mumbai.

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    6 分
  • Looking Back at the Man Who Helped Shape the U.N.

    Looking Back at the Man Who Helped Shape the U.N.
    2025/09/11
    In the early 1960s, U Thant, a practicing Buddhist from a remote town in Burma, became the first non-Western secretary-general of the United Nations. He immediately faced unfolding crises around the world. We talk with U Thant’s grandson about his new book “Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World.”

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    10 分
  • NATO Shoots Down Russian Drones Over Poland

    NATO Shoots Down Russian Drones Over Poland
    2025/09/10

    More than a dozen Russian drones entered the airspace of Poland, triggering NATO to scramble fighter jets to shoot them down. The drones came as part of a larger wave Russia sent to attack neighboring Ukraine and it was the first time in the history of NATO that alliance fighters engaged enemy aircraft in allied airspace. We get the latest on the incident, and hear about Article 4 of the NATO which Poland has evoked in response.

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    9 分
  • Israel Attacks Hamas Leadership in Qatar

    Israel Attacks Hamas Leadership in Qatar
    2025/09/09
    For the first time, Israel launched an airstrike in Qatar, bombing a building in Doha that houses Hamas political leadership. Israel says the targets were complicit in planning the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and in directing Hamas movements in the war in Gaza. We get reaction from the U.S. and the Mideast region and ask what this development might mean in the effort towards a Gaza cease-fire.

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    5 分
  • The Boy Known as “God’s Influencer” Becomes the First Millennial Saint

    The Boy Known as “God’s Influencer” Becomes the First Millennial Saint
    2025/09/08

    An Italian boy who died at age fifteen in 2006 becomes the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint. He was canonized over the weekend. This saint from the smartphone generation was known for using technology to spread the faith. We go to his tomb in a hilltop village in Italy.

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    8 分
  • Trump Administration’s War with International Drug Cartels

    Trump Administration’s War with International Drug Cartels
    2025/09/05

    U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration is at war with the drug cartels and a recent deadly strike on a boat from Venezuela was just the beginning. Some countries in Central and South America are expressing unease, while others are willing to partner in the effort- despite questions about the legalities of the administration’s actions.

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    7 分
  • U.S. coffee tariffs stir trouble for Brazil but opportunity for Colombia

    U.S. coffee tariffs stir trouble for Brazil but opportunity for Colombia
    2025/09/04
    A 50% U.S. tariff on Brazilian coffee just kicked in — and it’s shaking up global supply chains. As American roasters scramble for alternatives, Colombia is cashing in. But how long will the beans — and prices — hold?

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    5 分
  • What a Parade in China Says About That Country’s View of the World

    What a Parade in China Says About That Country’s View of the World
    2025/09/03

    China holds a military parade that is about more that commemorating the end of World War II. We hear about which world leaders attended the ceremony and the message China is trying to convey about its role in the world.

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    8 分