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The omicron BA.2 variant spreads about 30% more easily and has caused surges in other countries. Its steady increase in the U.S. raises questions about the wisdom of rolling back COVID restrictions.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks the president of a China-led development bank about the impact of the friction between the U.S. and China.

Customs and Border Protection announced an 8-year-old migrant boy from Guatemala who was in U.S. custody died following medical treatment for illness. The child is the second border-crosser to die in U.S. government custody this month.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Steve Coll, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, about the Pentagon's plan to send U.S. troops to Saudi Arabia.

Dozens of foreign nationals working in the U.S. for Voice of America may have to leave the country, putting some at risk of retribution from their nations' governments.

President-elect Joe Biden picked House Ways and Means Committee trade lawyer Katherine Tai as the next U.S. trade representative. Tai is the first woman of color picked as the top trade official.

The International Olympic Committee is under increasing pressure to postpone the Summer Olympics in Tokyo due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Scotland Yard says it has sufficient evidence to charge Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov in absentia with attempted murder over the poisonings in the city of Salisbury in March.

Noel King talks with nuclear weapons expert Jon Wolfsthal, director of the Nuclear Crisis Group, about the Trump administration's decision to pull the U.S. out of a cold war-era nuclear arms treaty.

The anti-Kavanaugh protesters far outnumbered his supporters. Some protesters broke through barriers that had been set up in front of the U.S. Capitol and made it as far as the main plaza and steps.