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Closing arguments are to begin in Trump's civil business fraud trial in New York. U.N.'s highest court to hear accusations of genocide in Gaza against Israel. The SEC approves new bitcoin fund.

Church leaders in Bethlehem canceled Christmas celebrations due to the Israel-Hamas war. The Biden reelection campaign is already facing headwinds. Congress officially wrapped up 2023 business.

Besides Gaza, violence is also escalating in the occupied West Bank. The House of Representatives still doesn't have a permanent speaker. A presidential runoff will be held next month in Argentina.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit to Ukraine. Many migrants enter the U.S. illegally and land at makeshift camps in California. TSA braces for record air travelers.

Kissinger's guiding foreign policy principle was that strategic national interests take priority over more idealistic aims, like the promotion of human rights and democracy.

Ibrahim, who died June 15, left South Africa in 1962 and lived in exile in the U.S. and Europe for many years. Kevin Whitehead offers an appreciation, and we listen to Terry Gross' 1989 interview.

A military coup brought down Mali's prime minister in March, allowing radical Islamists from Mali and surrounding areas to take hold of an area the size of Texas. As al-Qaida-linked militants take over the northern part of the country, many wonder what the U.S. and other can do to intervene.

The leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah made a public commitment to support Syria's president in a fight to the end. Hezbollah's involvement raises serious questions about the future of Syrian rebels, and whether the civil war could spill into other countries in the Middle East.

A year after South Sudan declared its independence, intractable problems remain: tribal conflict, oil disputes, corruption, hunger and continued fighting. New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson traveled to the remote Nuba Mountains, in Sudan, where the conflict between north and south rages on.