Tonight on PBS News Weekend, a new report looks at the state of crime in America and the

best practices for curbing it.

It involves police and communities working together, particularly our communities are

most most vulnerable.

Then with Women's World Cup underway, we look at the efforts worldwide to achieve equity

in the sport and an Oklahoma death row in May's case reignites the debate over capital

punishment.

Good evening, I'm John Yang.

The summer of 2023 has become the summer of superlatives, scientists say the first two

weeks of July were the earth's hottest on human record.

In the southwestern United States, Phoenix has never been this hot for this long and the

heat is spread to places like Boise, Idaho, where today's high is forecast to be above

100 degrees across the southeast.

A new wave of heat and humidity will make it feel as hot as 115 degrees in some places.

More than 90 million Americans are under heat alerts and in Europe, Greek firefighters

are battling dozens of wildfires as an intensifying heat wave stretching from Spain to Greece is

setting records there.

Ukraine officials say its drones hit an ammunition depot early today in the legally annexed Crimean

Peninsula.

It forced evacuations and the brief closure of a key bridge connecting Crimea and the Russian

mainland.

It was the latest in a series of aerial assaults from both sides.

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