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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the president of Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, who the Georgian government is threatening to sue over her support for Ukraine.

German police are providing protection for the controversial comedian Jan Boehmermann after he performed a crude poem criticizing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on German TV. Investigators are also looking into whether Boehmermann may have violated German speech laws. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Anton Troianovski of the Wall Street Journal about the controversy.

Biden's social spending and infrastructure bills face opposition not just from congressional Republicans but members of his own party.

On a campaign visit to Michigan Biden met with union auto workers. But he did not meet with Arab-American leaders who are demanding that he support a cease-fire in Israel’s war in Gaza.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with L. Rafael Reif, former president of MIT, about his piece in Foreign Affairs, "America's Coming Brain Drain: Trump's War on Universities Could Kill U.S. Innovation."

NPR speaks with Ahilan Kadirgamar, a political economist at the University of Jaffna, about political turmoil in Sri Lanka.

Lebanon's parliament chose the head of the country's armed forces, Joseph Aoun, to be its next president, a post that's been vacant since October 2022.

MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough wrote a Washington Post opinion piece in response to President Trump's tweets Thursday.

President Trump is threatening to attack Iran's power plants and bridges if Iran doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Middle East expert Aaron David Miller of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the prospect of lasting peace in Gaza.