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NPR interview regarding the impact of the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq on the Middle East.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with retired Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, former U.S. National Security Advisor, about the impact the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq will have on the Middle East.
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Burundi agreed to accept deportees from the United States with no previous connection to the East African country, provided they face no prosecution or terrorism links.

The Trump administration lowers fuel-economy targets for new vehicles. Meanwhile, New York prosecutors reopen a 2024 Cornell University rape case, and British authorities investigate five men detained near a U.S. military base.

British authorities arrested five men near RAF Fairford amid investigations into a possible Iran link and hostile state threats. Meanwhile, President Trump rejected an Iranian offer involving the Strait of Hormuz, and mass shootings in South Africa killed 38.

Hurricane Nolo moves away from Hawaii while bringing heavy rain warnings, and Category 3 Hurricane Polo threatens Mexico's Baja California with life-threatening flooding, high winds, and storm surge.

In Lesotho, volunteer-run night schools give young shepherd boys cut off by poverty and tradition a second chance at basic education, literacy, and social connection.

Two adult giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, departed Chengdu for Atlanta as part of a 10-year loan agreement between China and the U.S., announced during Xi Jinping's summit with Donald Trump in Washington. The pandas, born in 2020 at the Chengdu Research Base, will reside at Zoo Atlanta following the departure of the zoo's last pandas in 2024. China continues to use panda diplomacy as a symbol of goodwill amid ongoing bilateral tensions.