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Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were arrested in China and charged with espionage shortly after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhoi was arrested in British Columbia at the request of the U.S.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Byron E. Miller, Juneteenth Commissioner for the Fiesta Celebration in San Antonio, about the holiday's cultural significance and what the new federal recognition means.

A bipartisan group of 10 senators has a framework for an infrastructure deal that doesn't include any tax increases, but the White House isn't signed on and lawmakers are still working on the details.

Some institutions have dropped the name Columbus Day or switched to celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day. One New Jersey school district came up with a new solution: eliminate all holiday names.

Spain has pardoned nine leaders in the Catalan independence movement, who were convicted of sedition in 2019. Catalonia's 2017 failed bid for independence was modern Spain's greatest political crisis.

City officials spoke earlier Saturday about Friday night's tragedy that killed at least eight people at a Houston music festival.

With plans of heading home, some students have now tested positive for COVID or been around others who did. Worried families must decide whether to see their loved ones or risk possibly getting sick.

An NPR/Marist poll shows that most Democrat voters are skeptical about the party's plans and few feel they were deeply helped by policies that already exist.

"Santa, please bring ammo," Rep. Thomas Massie wrote as he posted the image of him and his family posing with guns in front of a Christmas tree.

Jane Campion's Western plays out like a tightly wound psychological thriller, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as one of the scariest characters you're likely to meet this year.