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France's generous pension system has toppled governments there over questions of how to fund it. It's part of a broader problem, as nations rethink how to fund care for their aging populations.

Ecuadorians have decisively rejected a series of referendum measures, including plans for U.S. military bases and constitutional changes, handing President Daniel Noboa a major political setback amid rising gang violence.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with California AG Rob Bonta about tariffs arguments at the Supreme Court, presidential power and the legal fights California is waging against the Trump administration.

In China, two economic realities exist side of by side. The country's fast-growing technology sector is now leading the world in some aspects. Yet prospects for the average Chinese worker remain dim.

Following the meeting between President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, NPR's Leila Fadel asks former U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns about Trump's relationship with Beijing.

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Prosecutors in Jair Bolsonaro's coup-plotting trial deliver closing arguments this week, with the former Brazilian president facing a possible 40-year sentence.

A judicial race in Wisconsin has drawn over $100 million in donations. The President has filled his new administration with election deniers.What forces at play are threatening democracy both in America and abroad?YLR host, Jeff Hayden, is joined by civil rights activist and election specialist Brent Turner, and Lawyer, Professor, Political Candidate and the former Chief White House Ethics Lawyer for George W. Bush, Richard Painter.Questions for Jeff and his guests? Please call (866) 798-8255.

Researchers in the U.K. have published a major review of published data on physical side effects related to antidepressants such as changes in weight, blood pressure and heart rate.

Officials say progress was made in urgent weekend talks on amending the U.S. peace proposal for Ukraine that many saw as favoring Russia. But the Kremlin on Monday said it hadn't seen the changes.

On a trip to Chicago, Lavonne Schaafsma lost her purse. Two women saw a man rifling through it — and stepped in to help.

President Trump ordered a strike on what he says was a Venezuelan vessel carrying drugs, killing 11 people. NPR asks Brian Finucane of the International Crisis Group if it violated laws.