The Outer Hebrides are the UK’s last holdout of traditional Christian Sunday observance, prohibiting work, shopping, and leisure activities on the Sabbath. But that may soon end.

Analysts are calling it China’s biggest military purge in roughly half a century: President Xi Jinping has placed his second-in-command, China’s top general, under investigation. Shanshan Mei, who specializes in Chinese defense policy at RAND, speaks with The World’s Marco Werman about the scope of the ongoing purge and what it reveals about the stability of Xi’s regime.

A groundbreaking Australian play has come to New York for a few weeks. It’s called “The Visitors,” and it tells an important piece of Australian history from an Aboriginal perspective. A council of tribal leaders is called in when a fleet of ships appears in what is now Sydney Harbor in 1788. “The Visitors” is written by an Aboriginal playwright, and the cast and crew are also Aboriginal. Jeff Lunden reports from New York City.

Funding for the US Agency for International Development was one of the first things cut by the Trump Administration, with the President mocking some of the programs it supported. One of them was $60 million for “Indigenous empowerment” in Colombia. Reporter Natalie Skowlund looks at what the loss of funding means for the rural villages of Colombia — and the drugs coming into the US.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is on a decadeslong project to walk from East Africa to South America. In his 13 years on the road so far, he’s been stopped by law enforcement 120 times. Those encounters range from friendly stops, to detentions, and some things in between. He has even been logging those stops on an online map. He joins Host Carolyn Beeler to talk about that map and share stories about his walk-ins with the law.