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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson about the U.S. and China, and the pressure on the incoming Biden administration to tackle the economic issues between the two.

History professor David Blight of Yale University talks with NPR's Noel King about what Independence Day meant to abolitionist Frederick Douglass and America's enslaved population.

Famine has been officially declared in northern Gaza, a U.N.-backed group of experts warns — marking the first such confirmation in the Middle East.

Early fears of an escalating outbreak have not come to pass. Scientists are finding that the virus needs a very particular set of circumstances to spread effectively.

After declining most of the fall, new infections are up again in more than half of U.S. states, worrying experts about what the holiday season may bring.

Haitian migrants are camped out on the beaches of this Colombian town, which is a stopover before the Darién Gap leading to Panama. They hope the United States will take them in.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with director Greg Barker about the new Netflix movie "Sergio." The charismatic United Nations diplomat Sergio Viera de Mello was killed in Iraq in 2003.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, about President Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Guinness spent $90 million on the Open Gate Brewery near Baltimore, Md., where it hopes to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

The leaders of the U.S. and Israel say they have agreed to a broad plan that could end Israel's war in Gaza. But substantial uncertainties remain.