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From NPR. What’s really happening with the Olympics ski jumping crotch scandal everyone is talking about? NPR Science Correspondent Jonathan Lambert breaks down the science behind altering the crotch area of ski suits and how ski jumpers use physics to get extra distance with each jump. 🔔 Subscribe and never miss an episode: bit.ly/4oVAImb 🔔…
From NPR. The 2026 Winter Olympics are in full swing, and NPR’s team in Milan and Cortina are bringing you the latest and helping you understand the science behind the Games’ big controversies. Join host A Martínez along with Sports Correspondent Becky Sullivan as they discuss the state of women’s skiing now that Lindsey Vonn…
From NPR. Reshona Landfair, previously known as the “Jane Doe” who testified against R. Kelly, is out with a new memoir, “Who’s Watching Shorty?” Now 41, Landfair was seen in a now-infamous videotape Kelly made of himself sexually abusing Landfair when she was just 14 years old. The video was shown to the juries in…
From NPR. The record-breaking cold snap last weekend surprised some South Florida residents — iguanas, stunned by the cold. The invasive green iguana is not an unusual sighting in Florida, but the cool weather that has South Florida’s cold-blooded iguanas stunned has longtime iguana trapper Blake Wilkins leaping for lizards. Wilkins, the owner of Red…
From NPR. NPR’s ‘Up First’ is at the 2026 Winter Olympics to bring you the biggest storylines, on-the-ground perspectives and the internet’s favorite moments. Join us from Milan and Cortina as we cover the action so you can catch up on what you missed last night and make sure you know what you need to…
From NPR. More than 10% of Congress won’t return to their seats after the 2026 midterms, driven by redistricting, retirements and lawmakers running for different offices.
From NPR. Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights, taking immigration detainees caught up in President Trump’s sweeping federal immigration campaign that started there back in December. One professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered flights. He carefully documents how many people are put on each flight, as the Trump administration declines to release…
From NPR. Reshona Landfair says she’s reclaiming her identity after decades of being known as the “Jane Doe” seen in a videotape of musician R. Kelly abusing her at age 14. He was initially acquitted on child pornography charges in a 2008 trial, and later convicted on child pornography and other felony charges in separate…
From NPR. President Trump has unveiled a new website called TrumpRx.gov, where consumers can search for discounts on brand-name medications. But they’ll have to pay in cash, instead of using their health insurance. The new program works because Trump wielded a stick against drugmakers: lower prices in the U.S. or face tariffs on your imports.…
From NPR. NPR journalists are at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Join host A Martinez and correspondents Becky Sullivan, Brian Mann and Rachel Treisman as they talk about what’s coming up at the 2026 Winter Olympics, including Lindsey Vonn’s comeback, Chloe Kim’s shoulder injury and the U.S. men’s hockey team’s shot at gold. Then NPR Media…
From NPR. A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds President Trump’s immigration and enforcement tactics are widely unpopular. Two-thirds say federal law enforcement agents have gone too far — up significantly since last summer. 60% disapprove of ICE. 62% think ICE is making Americans less safe. And a key part of the coalition that helped get…
From NPR. Walmart is known for low prices, but that the company’s shares hit a record high Tuesday, as the retailer’s market value topped $1 trillion. Walmart has long been a favorite among bargain hunters, and that includes a growing number of wealthy shoppers who are increasingly concerned about the high cost of groceries and…
From NPR. Legendary American athletes — many of them women — across multiple sports are returning to the Olympic stage after years away. Subscribe to Rachel Treisman’s behind-the-scenes newsletter as she covers the Olympics at npr.org/wintergames.
From NPR. Two people allegedly working for Russian intelligence blew up a rail line between Poland and Ukraine in November, damaging infrastructure and risking civilian lives. Though the Kremlin denies involvement, analysts see it as part of Russia’s escalating “hybrid warfare” against EU countries, warning that a deadly incident could force NATO to consider a…
From NPR. President Trump says Republicans should take away control of elections from at least 15 states, although he didn’t say which ones. Voting is plainly specified in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution as a right belonging to the states. But Trump made the comments yesterday in a podcast with former FBI Deputy Director…
From NPR. Hundreds of protesters gathered in a central square in Milan on Saturday, demanding that U.S. ICE agents assisting with security at the Winter Olympics leave Italy. Many of the Italians who chanted and blew whistles near the grand stone arch in the Piazza XXV Aprile said they had been horrified and angered by…
From NPR. India has a thriving black market for human eggs. Rules constraining the supply of donated eggs have given rise to this underground supply which have risks for the women giving up their eggs.
From NPR. It’s Feb. 2 — or Groundhog Day — and in keeping with tradition, thousands of fans of Punxsutawney Phil turned out to witness his weather prediction this morning. Members of the west-central Pennsylvania Punxsutawney Groundhog Club said Phil saw his shadow Monday, predicting six more weeks of wintry weather. The event has links…
From NPR. Want your child to spend less time on their phone, tablet or gaming device? Take a look at your own tech habits. According to a study published in 2024, one of the strongest predictors of a child’s screen time is a parent’s screen time. "If you don’t want your teens to be…
From NPR. Scientists say new research suggests humpback whales are teaching each other how to do a complicated feeding technique. Bubble-net feeding is when a humpback whale dives below a shoal of tiny krill or fish and starts to swim in a circle beneath. It releases air from its blowhole, creating an ever-tightening ring of…
From NPR. Just months after the April 2025 release of his debut album, “Love on Digital,” Destin Conrad dropped his second studio album, a jazz project titled “wHIMSY.” Both albums climbed the charts, and Conrad snagged a Grammy nomination for best progressive R&B album for “Love on Digital” — his first as a solo artist.…
From NPR. Lila Iké grew up surrounded by music, in a small town in the green mountains of Jamaica. “Christiana, where I was born and raised, is a community where music literally oozes out of every fabric of the community," Iké told “All Things Considered.” Her memories of music growing up included her mom’s…
From NPR. In the week since Border Patrol officers killed Alex Pretti, a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, vigils around the country have celebrated Pretti’s work and denounced ICE’s tactics. Thousands gathered outside the Manhattan VA hospital, filling the sidewalk between massive snowbanks. And hundreds of Pretti’s colleagues at Minneapolis VA held a vigil earlier this…
From NPR. Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz defended the right to peaceful protests and expressed skepticism about the Trump administration’s calls earlier this week to de-escalate its immigration crackdown in his state in an interview Friday with NPR’s “All Things Considered.” “I know who I’m dealing with. I know that they’re not going to keep…
From NPR. After Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz referred to ICE agents as “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote a letter criticizing Walz for his rhetoric, accusing state leaders of not doing enough to “support the men and women who are risking their lives and uphold the rule of law.” In an…
From NPR. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says there’s a lot of skepticism in his state that the Trump administration will keep its word and draw down the presence of federal agents there. Two people have been shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis in recent weeks. Gov. Walz sat down with NPR’s All Things Considered…
From NPR. After years of eavesdropping and analyzing howls in Yellowstone, Jeff Reed knows a lot about how wolves communicate. A computational linguist, he uses AI and bioacoustics to isolate, record, and interpret the sounds that wolves make in the wild. He co-founded The Cry Wolf Project, the world’s largest bioacoustics study of wild wolves.…
From NPR. Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles. His attorney is calling it an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X this morning that she directed federal agents to arrest Lemon and three others "in connection with the coordinated attack"…
From NPR. With the release of his sophomore album, "Fly," in October 2024, jazz vocalist, composer and songwriter Michael Mayo ascended to new artistic heights. Much like his lauded 2021 debut album, "Bones," the Los Angeles-born singer flexed his jazz-influenced musical prowess on "Fly," enthusing critics with the album’s floating production, expressive songwriting and…
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From NPR. FBI agents searched an elections office in Georgia yesterday. One local Georgia official who was inside the Fulton County office yesterday says FBI agents were seizing ballots from the 2020 presidential election. Georgia has been at the center of President Trump’s claims that that election was stolen from him. He repeated the lie…
From NPR. South Carolina is reporting 789 confirmed cases of measles, surpassing the West Texas outbreak last year that resulted in the deaths of 2 school-age children. As NPR’s Maria Godoy reports, the outbreak is now the largest the U.S. has faced in nearly 30 years. Public health officials have reported 89 new confirmed cases…
From NPR. Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was rushed by a man last night as she was speaking during a town hall event. He used a syringe to spray her with a liquid before he was tackled by security and arrested. A statement from Omar’s office said the congresswoman is ok. After a brief pause…
From NPR. Heather Zielinski calls her friend Alex Pretti a “good man.” They knew each other for more than 10 years before he was shot and killed by federal immigration agents last weekend. Zielinski told NPR’s Scott Detrow what she thinks the world should know about him.
From NPR. How have prices changed in a year? We’ve tracked the cost of 114 items at a Walmart in Georgia. We found the impact of extreme weather and tariffs, relief (finally!) in the egg cooler, plus "shrinkflation" in the laundry aisle.
From NPR. Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Jewish faith and leadership have always been intertwined, but perhaps never more so than after Oct. 7, 2023, the brutal attack on Israel by Hamas. In a conversation outside Philadelphia, the Democratic governor shared how he felt in the moments after a man set his residence on fire during Passover,…
From NPR. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has named the team of athletes that will compete in the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics next month. It’s the biggest U.S. delegation yet, with more than 230 U.S. athletes headed to Italy. They range in age from 15-year-old Abby Winterberger, a freeskier from California, to Rich Ruohonen,…
From NPR. The Trump administration is moving a top Border Patrol officer out of Minneapolis and out of his leadership role. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz spoke with President Trump on Monday. Greg Bovino has been the face of the Trump administration’s immigration efforts across the country. Walz said Trump told him he planned to send…
From NPR. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro hears from voters who he says want to “pull the covers” over their heads and retreat from the news. But he believes now is the moment to engage, and to make your voice heard in the midterms. The Democrat presides over what he calls the “swingiest swing state in…
From NPR. American rock climber Alex Honnold became the first person to free climb Taipei 101 in Taiwan — one of the world’s tallest buildings. The whole climb took Honnold, the star of the award-winning documentary “Free Solo,” an hour and half. His first words upon reaching the top? “Sick!” Meanwhile, down on the ground,…
From NPR. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro hears from voters who he says want to “pull the covers” over their heads and retreat from the news. But he believes now is the moment to engage, and to make your voice heard in the midterms. The Democrat presides over what he calls the “swingiest swing state in…
From NPR. A federal judge will hold a hearing today on whether to limit the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. The hearing comes two days after federal agents shot and killed a protester in Minneapolis — the second protester federal agents have killed there this month. Trump officials have tried to paint the city’s…
From NPR. The TV show "Heated Rivalry" has been a hit for HBO. And now the book it’s based on is experiencing a significant bump in sales. The gay romance centers on two hockey players who seem to find themselves facing off pretty often. The show is based on the 2019 novel by Rachel Reid…
From NPR. A new study finds that Antarctic penguins are radically shifting the start of their breeding season as temperatures warm, potentially disrupting their ability to get food. Over the course of 10 years, researchers used remote-controlled cameras to see when penguins set up colonies to breed at more than three dozen sites. They looked…
From NPR. Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park has taken down an exhibit on slavery, in line with President Trump’s executive order calling for “restoring truth and sanity to American history.” NPR recently reported that the National Park Service was ordered to remove any books from its museums or gift shops that cast America in a…
From NPR. Israeli crews seized and bulldozed the headquarters of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees, in East Jerusalem on Tuesday. One of Jerusalem’s deputy mayors, Aryeh King, told NPR he hopes Israel shuts down UNRWA’s Kalandia training center as well. A spokesperson for UNRWA argued that the International Court…
From NPR. Ukraine is struggling to deal with repeated Russian attacks on the country’s energy grid that left tens of thousands of residents without heat in freezing weather.
From NPR. A longtime democratic insider, Emanuel says the Trump administration betrays his family’s idea of America. In an NPR video interview, Emanuel talked of photographs on his living room wall growing up. They showed his ancestors, many of whom perished in European pogroms or the Holocaust. "We knew growing up that America was a…
From NPR. A longtime democratic insider, Emanuel says the Trump administration betrays his family’s idea of America. In an NPR video interview, Emanuel talked of photographs on his living room wall growing up. They showed his ancestors, many of whom perished in European pogroms or the Holocaust. "We knew growing up that America was a…
From NPR. A longtime democratic insider, Emanuel says the Trump administration betrays his family’s idea of America. In an NPR video interview, Emanuel talked of photographs on his living room wall growing up. They showed his ancestors, many of whom perished in European pogroms or the Holocaust. "We knew growing up that America was a…
From NPR. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, laid out a vision for a “New Gaza” with futuristic skyscrapers and industrial zones Thursday. Kushner says this new vision for Gaza will feature a flourishing economic zone that creates jobs and prosperity for people there, free of Hamas and heavy weapons. Kushner’s plan envisions Gaza with…
From NPR. A 5-year-old boy is at the center of a controversial arrest by ICE agents in Minnesota — he is the fourth child detained from the same school district over the last few weeks. He’s being held in federal custody in Texas. The child — Liam Conejo Ramos — was taken from a running…
From NPR. Note: A previous version of this video listed the date as Dec. 23, 2026. The footage was recoded on Dec. 23, 2025.
From NPR. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro calls it “cruel.” The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that “ICE did NOT target a child. The child was ABANDONED.” DHS says the boy’s father was an undocumented immigrant from Ecuador who fled on foot and ICE officers remained with the child until the man was apprehended. Democratic…
From NPR. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro calls it “cruel.” The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that “ICE did NOT target a child. The child was ABANDONED.” DHS says the boy’s father was an undocumented immigrant from Ecuador who fled on foot and ICE officers remained with the child until the man was apprehended. Democratic…
From NPR. Rahm Emanuel has been a fixture in Democratic Party politics for more than 30 years. In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, Emanuel talked of corporate America failing to restrain the Trump administration in any way. "I think corporate America, they’ve sold out America," he said. "And what I mean by that…
From NPR. Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They’d get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts.
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From NPR. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo says federal agents may enter private property without first getting a warrant from a federal judge. The directive is outlined in a document last year that was leaked by a whistleblower. In the May 12 memo — which the Associated Press first reported — acting ICE Director…
From NPR. A top official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the loss of measles elimination status would not be significant for the U.S. The comments from the CDC’s principal deputy director come as the U.S. is experiencing measles cases at levels not seen in decades. During a press call Tuesday, Dr.…