A new documentary narrated and executive-produced by Lily Gladstone, Oscar-nominated star of "Killers of the Flower Moon," tackles the Blackfeet Nation's fight to restore buffalo to their land.
The big picture: "Bring Them Home/Aiskótáhkapiyaaya," set to air on most PBS stations on Monday, comes amid similar battles between ranchers, conservationists and tribal elders over land use on Indigenous reservations.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning from Congress after her acrimonious split with President Trump, the Georgia Republican announced in a post on Friday evening.
Why it matters: Greene was one of Trump's earliest allies and among his most loyal supporters in Congress. But she broke with Republicans over health care costs and foreign policy, and her relationship with Trump dissolved over her push to release the "Epstein files."
UN climate talks in Brazil are wrapping up Saturday with a push to help move nations away from fossil fuels, but the deal lacks explicit mention of the CO2-spewing energy sources.
Why it matters: The compromise underscores the Paris Agreement's limited ability to move from aspiration to stronger real-world action.
The U.S., Ukraine, Germany, France and the UK are expected to hold negotiations on Sunday in Geneva over the new U.S. peace plan, according to two U.S. officials and three European sources with knowledge.
Why it matters: Diplomacy over the plan has been unfolding at a fast pace since Axios revealed it on Tuesday. President Trump has set a Thanksgiving deadline for reaching an understanding with Ukraine on the plan.
For all the hype of a conflict, President Trump and New York City's next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, had a surprising bond when they met Friday in the Oval Office: populist outsiders, lovers of the Big Apple, and two politicians who each want what the other has.
Mamdani, facing a city budget deficit, needs federal money and doesn't want Trump to send National Guard troops into New York City.
Trump, reeling from bad polling on the economy, sought to co-opt some of the shine from the charismatic Mamdani's message on affordability.
Why it matters: For a few minutes, Mamdani — whom Trump had called a communist — and Trump, whom Mamdani had called a fascist, gave a glimpse of how they might find common ground by putting aside vast partisan differences and working together, or at least appearing to.
Artificial intelligence is struggling to understand accented English and non-standard dialects, creating problems that can cascade into biased hiring, grading or clinical records.
Why it matters: AI is deciding who gets a job interview, how students are graded, and what doctors record in a patient's chart. But major speech-to-text systems make far more errors for Black speakers than for white speakers.
A string of recent attacks on ABC personalities by President Trump has helped set the stage for the President's media regulator, Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr, to introduce heavier oversight measures on broadcast companies.
Why it matters: ABC is particularly vulnerable to the president's attacks because its local broadcast affiliates are regulated by the FCC.
The House of Representatives had, by any reasonable standard, an absolutely insane week — marked by censure votes, indictments and a literal fire at the U.S. Capitol complex — as lawmakers returned from their seven-week absence.
To cap it off, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), one of the chamber's biggest firebrands, announced Friday night she'll resign from Congress after her public split from President Trump.
Why it matters: To members in both parties, the chaos was simply the crescendo to a years-long period of shame for the lower chamber.
Supreme Court JusticeSamuel A. Alito on Friday temporarily reinstated Texas' GOP-favored congressional map, meaning the state can use the new boundaries as the deadline to file to run for Congress nears.
Why it matters: Republicans' majority in the U.S. House could hinge on whether Texas keeps or loses the extra five GOP seats state lawmakers drew this year.
