Weekend Edition Sunday

16 hours ago | npr.org | Jaclyn Diaz

President Trump signed a proclamation this week suspending visas for new students from overseas who planned to attend Harvard University in the fall -- a move that a judge quickly blocked for the time being. It's a dramatic escalation of the conflict between the White House and the country's oldest and most elite school. The White House says it's taking these actions due to national security, crime and civil rights concerns.

2 days ago | npr.org | Erika Beras

2 days ago | npr.org | Corrinne Hess

People in many parts of the Midwest have been dealing with smoke from Canadian wildfires all week. Wisconsin had the worst air quality in the country Wednesday. NPR checks in on people in Milwaukee.

3 days ago | npr.org | Felix Contreras

You can trace the history of Latin America and the Caribbean by listening to the music. There are a variety of drums and percussion instruments from the well-documented influence of Africa by way of the slave trade, to the way the guitar brought by the Spanish colonizers inspired numerous stringed instruments like the cuatro from Venezuela and Puerto Rico and the Cuban tres.

3 days ago | npr.org | Brittany Luse

You may have heard that the U.S. gained 59 new residents last month from South Africa - and that more came this past weekend. They're all white Afrikaners: a white minority group descended from European colonists. Trump has given some of these white Afrikaners refugee status because he claims a "white genocide" is happening against them in South Africa. This claim is untrue. So where is it coming from? And why might this claim be politically expedient for the Trump administration?