One of China's most prominent scholars shows the many ways China's Communist Party is attempting to influence and infiltrate American government, society, and economy.
Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.
President Trump is set to meet with House Republicans Tuesday. The meeting comes a day after administration officials briefed top lawmakers on the weekend operation in Venezuela.
Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat serving on the House Armed Services Committee, says Trump administration officials offered "vague talk" in briefing about the long-term strategy for Venezuela.
Venezuelan authorities detained more than a dozen international journalists Monday, a media advocacy group says. Most of them have since been released, but the move has members of the press concerned.
Nicolas Maduro pleads not guilty in first court appearance, Trump to meet with House Republicans at Kennedy Center, U.S. health officials reduce the number of vaccines recommended for children.
President Trump says the U.S. will "take back" Venezuela's oil. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Jason Bordoff, founding director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, about his remarks.