Aaron Schachter

Dozens are dead and as much as two-thirds of the country has been affected as Mexico has been battered by a series of tropical storms this week. Host Aaron Schachter gets the latest from reporter Jennifer Collins in Mexico City.

Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with Carnegie Endowment’s Karim Sadjadpour about what seems to be a promising moment in Iran as well as in its relations with the West.

The residents of the Australian town of Tecoma are fighting against a proposed McDonald’s restaurant opening in their community. The group, known as Burger Off, took a petition of 95,000 signatures to McDonald’s international headquarters in Chicago.

Some of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most avid fans are members of a Slavic motorcycle gang known as the Night Wolves. Anchor Aaron Schachter finds out more from journalist Simon Shuster, who’s written about Putin for Time Magazine.

On Monday afternoon some Iranian social media users got a big surprise. They were able to connect to Facebook and Twitter directly, without the use of proxies. The tweets, however, were short-lived.