The World: Latest Stories

Host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories that remind us just how small our planet really is. The World, the radio program, is heard each weekday on over 300 public stations across North America.

The World: Latest Stories is a news podcast hosted by PRX, with 30 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

PRX hosts The World: Latest Stories, a news show with 30 episodes published.

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  Scandal tears through Manchester City, one of British soccer's storied clubs

  Oct 2, 20269 min

  An independent panel found the Premier League club Manchester City was guilty on 114 out of 115 charges related to, among other things, widespread financial misconduct. The UAE-owned British soccer team continues to deny all charges and lodged an appeal on Friday. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler learned more from Joey D’Urso, a sports journalist and author of the book “More Than A Shirt: How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money and Power.”

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  Extreme levels of PFAS found near a UK chemical factory

  Oct 2, 202610 min

  Residents living near a chemical factory in Lancashire, in the north of England, have high levels of PFAS “forever chemicals” in their blood, including the highest result ever recorded in the UK, most of it the banned carcinogen PFOA, according to an investigation by Manchester Metropolitan University and Watershed Investigations. Leana Hosea, with Watershed Investigations, reports.

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  Spain's prime minister loses vote over housing decrees

  Oct 2, 20262 min

  Spain's progressive government was dealt a costly legislative defeat on Friday when lawmakers rejected a package of emergency measures aimed at tackling the nation’s housing affordability crisis, as protesters gathered outside Parliament demanding help for renters. Host Carolyn Beeler has more.

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  Egypt continues crackdown on free press

  Oct 2, 20268 min

  Egyptian authorities this week arrested the entire newsroom of the independent investigative outlet Matsaddash. It's part of a wider, years-long crackdown against journalists and a restriction of press freedoms. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Timothy Kaldas, deputy director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, about what this means.

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  Can regulation stop the scourge of AI-generated fake campaign material?

  Oct 2, 20265 min

  The 2026 Brazilian election will be one of the first major elections since the introduction of widely-accessible generative AI. In preparation, Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) created a framework aimed at preventing the use of AI to spread election misinformation, and it's already faced a major test. From Florianopolis, Brazil, Rose Gilbert reports.

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