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Watching the Kavanaugh hearing

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified on Capitol Hill on Thursday and unequivocally said before the US Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school. The World's Carol Hills and Andrea Crossan were watching and tracking reaction around the globe.

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‘It’s a dangerous time’

Former Secretary of State John Kerry has pursued multilateral diplomacy for decades. Host Marco Werman asks him what it’s like to watch the White House attempt to unravel his key achievements.

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Russia and the 2016 US election 

University of Pennsylvania professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson conducted a "forensic examination" of media coverage, polling data and hacking. Host Marco Werman talks to her about her new book, "Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President."

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Climate change clues in Greenland

Scientists used to think that the Greenland ice sheet wouldn't melt even if the world warmed up significantly. Now a group of researchers isn't so sure, and they're hunting around for more clues to what may lie ahead for the huge island and for us. Janet Babin reports in the second of her three-part series on Greenland, New York and climate change.

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China’s feminist awakening

Leta Hong Fincher is the author of the new book, "Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China." Host Marco Werman talks to Hong Fincher about the Feminist Five, a group of young women who were arrested in China in 2015 for protesting sexual harassment, the emerging #MeToo movement there, and reactions on the Brett Kavanaugh hearing.

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Watching Kavanaugh hearing, China's feminist awakening, melting ice sheets in Greenland

Marco Werman

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before testifying the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC, Sept. 27, 2018.

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Brazilian Congress moves to limit Indigenous land claims 

Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokić (15) shoots over Miami Heat guard Kyle Lowry (7) during the second half of Game 1 of basketball's NBA Finals, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Denver. 

Sports

Nikola Jokić takes center stage at NBA Finals and Serbian fans are loving it

This blues musician fled Russia for Serbia. But he sounds like he came straight from the Mississippi Delta.

Refugees

A boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees vanished. A frantic phone call helped untangle the mystery.

Ayyad Mohmmed Ali works on his farm where he grows date palm trees and vegetables, Iraq.

The Big Fix

This startup is fighting to keep Iraq’s palm trees alive

Investigation begins into India’s deadly train crash

Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people

Military

A conversation with a former member of Wagner: ‘They were like little kings or czars’

50 Years of Hip Hop Celebration Tribute performance at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles.

Planet Hip Hop

Planet Hip Hop: The World celebrates 50 years of hip-hop around the globe

Low water levels are seen at the Paso Severino dam, which supplies water to the city of Montevideo and adjacent metropolitan areas, Uruguay, May 15, 2023.

Uruguayans protest over government attempts to supplement public drinking water from salty reservoirs amid historic drought

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