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While President Biden has been working with world leaders on the pressing issue of climate change, his domestic plans for more funding still face holdouts.

How hot will the planet get? What nations negotiate at the international climate summit will help determine that. Here are 4 things to know about what's being decided.

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with two residents of a housing complex in Shanghai about how they have experienced the city's lockdown — which is approaching its sixth week.

Some schools are nixing language about academic freedom and are stressing loyalty to the ruling party, which plants spies to denounce professors and students who voice their minds, academics say.

In today’s WBFO Brief, Jay Moran once again turns to Dr. Nancy Nielsen MD for a look at masks, and the continued march of COVID-19 variants against the un-vaccinated. And Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt looks at vaccination mandates for some state employees. A few weeks before the Erie County Fair begins its return after COVID-19, hear an update from Fair officials. Also, one day before their contract expires with the Buffalo News, hear from reporters union Pres. Sandra Tan of the Buffalo Newspaper Guild. And neighbors, activists, developers, and politicians weigh in on a local preservation district for parts of the Elmwood Village.

The United Nations has approved the deployment of a Kenyan led security mission to Haiti — sparking human rights concerns about deploying a force that has a long record of abuses.

Cindy McCain, the U.N. World Food Programme's executive director, has been tasked with closing the giant hole in the budget.

Global efforts to limit climate change can't happen without more aid. Rich countries promised $100 billion to poorer ones to cope with global warming but seven years later, have yet to deliver.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Matt Duss, the executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, about Israel's strategy in the conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

A global climate summit got underway today in Glasgow, Scotland. It appears unlikely that this conference will produce any dramatic new changes in policy.