From the BBC World Service: Would violence in Colombia rapidly dwindle if the United Nations declared cocaine legal globally? The country’s president thinks so.
From the BBC World Service: Indigenous leaders in Brazil are asking the United Nations to pressure President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to stop illegal mining.
After last month’s Supreme Court ruling, a judge weighs whether to allow new lawsuits against individual members of Purdue Pharma’s owners, the Sackler family.
Military spending and aid for Ukraine are high on the agenda at this week’s NATO summit; Americans added more than $11 billion to consumer debt in May; and a practical look at newly implemented guidelines from the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is in Russia to “deepen ties” between the two countries on Mr. Modi’s first trip to Russia since the beginning of its war in Ukraine.
