Episodes

  • Refugees in Limbo as U.S. Halts a Resettlement Program.

    Refugees in Limbo as U.S. Halts a Resettlement Program.
    Apr 18 2025
    In Kenya, generations of mostly Somalians have lived in one of the world's largest refugee camps for over thirty years. Many hoped to resettle in places such as the U.S., which has paused a key admissions program. And a visit to China's oldest trade fair, where traders are plotting their next move after U.S. tariffs and a darkened economic forecast.

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    9 mins
  • Mothers' Anguish after Grisly Discovery in Mexico

    Mothers' Anguish after Grisly Discovery in Mexico
    Apr 17 2025
    The discovery of a clandestine cartel crematorium on a disused ranch in Jalisco has once again raised questions about the crisis of forced disappearances and the connection to organized crime.

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    9 mins
  • Tracking Wolves in Italy

    Tracking Wolves in Italy
    Apr 16 2025
    After being hunted to near extinction, wolves have made a population comeback in recent decades with the help of conservation efforts. Now, the country with the most wolves in Europe is Italy. Our correspondent in Rome set's out for the Italian forest with an organization that takes small groups to try to see wolves in the wild.

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    8 mins
  • Dismantling Democracy in Hungary

    Dismantling Democracy in Hungary
    Apr 15 2025
    In his fifteen years as prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban has steadily chipped away at his country's democratic freedoms. We go to Budapest to see what the erosion of democracy looks like and we find that may of Orban's strategies are being studied by politicians elsewhere.

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    9 mins
  • Big Changes at the U.S. State Department

    Big Changes at the U.S. State Department
    Apr 14 2025
    The Trump administration is undertaking shifts in U.S. foreign policy and that has meant big shifts at the State Department, which is in charge of that policy. The changes have veteran diplomats worried.

    And the gutted aid agency USAID has been absorbed into the State Department. We'll see what the loss of USAID funding has meant for the search for truth about Syria's civil war.

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  • Allegations of a Land Grab on Nigeria's Coast

    Allegations of a Land Grab on Nigeria's Coast
    Apr 11 2025
    Many communities have thrived for years on the peninsula and islands in the lagoon around Nigeria's crowded commercial capital Lagos. But the last decade has seen a violent shift, as thousands of people have been evicted by the Nigerian Navy and the government in an apparent effort to make way for luxury developments. We go to the communities and meet the people affected.

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    6 mins
  • Academics Fleeing the U.S. for Europe

    Academics Fleeing the U.S. for Europe
    Apr 10 2025
    The United States has long been a center for academic and scientific research. But two phenomena may be changing that and sending talent to Europe instead. The Trump administration has hit many colleges and universities with cuts to federal funding. And at the same time many academics feel like their freedom is under attack. Our correspondent in Rome tells us that European Universities are offering refuge to researchers in the U.S.

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  • Israel's Attacks on Syria

    Israel's Attacks on Syria
    Apr 9 2025
    Since the rule of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad ended, Israel has attacked Syria hundreds of times. Israel says they don't trust the new government in Syria and so they are hitting areas in Syria adjacent to Israel in an effort disarm southern Syria. Our correspondent takes us to one of the Syrian villages on the border that was attacked.

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    5 mins
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