The Latest Arts & Life Presidential photos and campaign buttons of the past live on as collectibles In honor of Presidents' Day, we visit with the folks who collect presidential memorabilia — from pictures of presidential dogs to many many campaign buttons, to deep dives on just one president. Buffy Gorrilla Sports When the Olympic record is your age! Meet 54-year-old Minnesotan Rich Ruohonen NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with the 54-year-old curler, Rich Ruohonen, the oldest American Winter Olympian to ever compete Jason Fuller Sports Two U.S. moms in their 40s rocketed to gold and bronze in Olympic bobsled showdown American sliders Elana Meyers Taylor, 41, and Kaillie Humphreys, 40, secure gold and bronze medals. Meyers-Taylor built on her record as the Black athlete with the most Winter Olympics medals. Brian Mann Politics Minnesota Democrats blame state Republicans for helping bring on the federal surge Republicans in the state legislature invited Nick Shirley to the state where he made misleading videos about immigrant fraud and that helped push Minnesota into the ICE surge. Dana Ferguson Politics Extremist rhetoric is often found in government messaging. Who's the target? In a rare move, the White House took down a racist post last week from one of President Trump's social media accounts. But extremism researchers say it fits a pattern of mainstreaming extremist ideas. Odette Yousef Arts & Life How 2016's Black art and culture set the stage for 2026 NPR's Juana Summers talks to critics Angelica Jade Bastién and Vinson Cunningham about 2016's music, literature, politics, and on-screen representation as the nation celebrates Black History Month. Juana Summers Arts & Life The 'Zipper Queen' volunteers at repair cafes to restore busted zippers Michelle Elise is known in repair cafe circles as the "Zipper Queen." She finds that most broken zippers just need some TLC, not replacing. Jason Fuller National The U.S. women's hockey team is dominating the Olympics. Now they will play for gold The Americans, whose captain Hilary Knight is leading a generation of thrilling young talent, are undefeated through six games at the Olympics — and they're outscoring their opponents 31 to 1. Becky Sullivan Sports A curling scandal rocks Olympic ice Allegations of cheating and swearing on the curling ice have rocked the sport after the Swedes accused the Canadians of "double touching" in a match. What happened then, and what's happened since? Pien Huang Politics The U.S. ready to make up, Europe ready to break up in Munich Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to reassure Europe at the Munich Security Conference, but European leaders are skeptical. Rob Schmitz Prev 277 of 1649 Next Sponsored
Arts & Life Presidential photos and campaign buttons of the past live on as collectibles In honor of Presidents' Day, we visit with the folks who collect presidential memorabilia — from pictures of presidential dogs to many many campaign buttons, to deep dives on just one president. Buffy Gorrilla
Sports When the Olympic record is your age! Meet 54-year-old Minnesotan Rich Ruohonen NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with the 54-year-old curler, Rich Ruohonen, the oldest American Winter Olympian to ever compete Jason Fuller
Sports Two U.S. moms in their 40s rocketed to gold and bronze in Olympic bobsled showdown American sliders Elana Meyers Taylor, 41, and Kaillie Humphreys, 40, secure gold and bronze medals. Meyers-Taylor built on her record as the Black athlete with the most Winter Olympics medals. Brian Mann
Politics Minnesota Democrats blame state Republicans for helping bring on the federal surge Republicans in the state legislature invited Nick Shirley to the state where he made misleading videos about immigrant fraud and that helped push Minnesota into the ICE surge. Dana Ferguson
Politics Extremist rhetoric is often found in government messaging. Who's the target? In a rare move, the White House took down a racist post last week from one of President Trump's social media accounts. But extremism researchers say it fits a pattern of mainstreaming extremist ideas. Odette Yousef
Arts & Life How 2016's Black art and culture set the stage for 2026 NPR's Juana Summers talks to critics Angelica Jade Bastién and Vinson Cunningham about 2016's music, literature, politics, and on-screen representation as the nation celebrates Black History Month. Juana Summers
Arts & Life The 'Zipper Queen' volunteers at repair cafes to restore busted zippers Michelle Elise is known in repair cafe circles as the "Zipper Queen." She finds that most broken zippers just need some TLC, not replacing. Jason Fuller
National The U.S. women's hockey team is dominating the Olympics. Now they will play for gold The Americans, whose captain Hilary Knight is leading a generation of thrilling young talent, are undefeated through six games at the Olympics — and they're outscoring their opponents 31 to 1. Becky Sullivan
Sports A curling scandal rocks Olympic ice Allegations of cheating and swearing on the curling ice have rocked the sport after the Swedes accused the Canadians of "double touching" in a match. What happened then, and what's happened since? Pien Huang
Politics The U.S. ready to make up, Europe ready to break up in Munich Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to reassure Europe at the Munich Security Conference, but European leaders are skeptical. Rob Schmitz
