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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) discusses the sweeping $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation proposal that would require the support from all Senate Democrats to pass.

U.S. prosecutors say four men conducted surveillance of an Iranian reporter, and researched how to book a boat from NYC to Venezuela.

Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender discusses his new book about former President Trump, Covid-19 and the 2020 election with CNN's Jake Tapper.

Team USA Women's Olympic Rower Brooke Mooney talks to Bianna Golodryga about her very first Olympics, going for gold and performing under the cloud of Covid-19.

The four-time NBA champ teams up with Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes gang for a high stakes basketball showdown. Rick Damigella has the play by play.

Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad says that she is the person who is targeted by four Iranian nationals that have been charged in an alleged kidnapping plot. A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Minister called the allegation "baseless."

CNN's SE Cupp says reporters shouldn't be called out for expressing emotion over Richard Branson's flight to space.

Soweto (South Africa) (AFP) – Walking among the remains of her shop, which was looted during unrest in South Africa, Thandi Johnson says that she has "nothing left", despite troops being deployed in an attempt to prevent the destruction caused by thousands on the streets.

Michelangelo dreamed it, Olivier Grossetête did it: the artist from Marseille has created a cardboard bridge over the Tiber River in Rome to link the gardens of the Villa Farnesina to the Farnese Palace, a splendid Renaissance building that houses the French embassy.

"We don't know where my brother is." Cubans are looking for their detained relatives in a police station near the town of La Guinera, in Havana, where unprecedented protests erupted the day before.

In a livestream from 8 July, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro apologises for hiccups that he says he's had for a week. Bolsonaro has now been hospitalised to investigate the causes of the hiccups, which he said started after dental surgery on the 3 July.

India's popular holiday destinations are crammed with visitors with what some have termed "revenge travel" – the urge to vacation following long shutdowns. But as Anjana Pasricha reports, authorities warn that the massive holiday crowds could reverse the gains made recently in the world's second worst hit country.