The Latest 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. Jeanette Woods 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 Arts & Life How to build strength without lifting weights Research shows bodyweight exercises can go a long way. Arts & Life Actor Robert Duvall has died — he brought a compassionate center to edgy hard roles Duvall appeared in over 90 films over the course of his career, imbuing stock Hollywood types — cowboys, cops, soldiers — with a nuanced sense of vulnerability. Glen Weldon Prev 290 of 1650 Next Sponsored
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. Jeanette Woods
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
Arts & Life How to build strength without lifting weights Research shows bodyweight exercises can go a long way.
Arts & Life Actor Robert Duvall has died — he brought a compassionate center to edgy hard roles Duvall appeared in over 90 films over the course of his career, imbuing stock Hollywood types — cowboys, cops, soldiers — with a nuanced sense of vulnerability. Glen Weldon
