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Trump fires Biden appointees, including Doug Emhoff, from the Holocaust Museum board

Critics see the terminations as an effort to politicize the Holocaust museum. The White House says Trump will appoint new board members "who are also steadfast supporters of the State of Israel."
- Rachel Treisman
Seattle to get professional women's hockey team this year

In Seattle's biggest sports announcement in years, Seattle will get a professional women's hockey team in 2025.
- Paige Browning
What's behind the 'pronatalist' movement to boost the birth rate?

A once-fringe movement claims having more babies is the only way to save civilization. NPR reporter Lisa Hagen and sociologist Karen Guzzo explain who's empowering pronatalism today.
- Tonya Mosley
Private eye accused of hacking American climate activists loses U.K. extradition fight

The Justice Department has charged Amit Forlit with conspiracy to commit computer hacking, among other crimes.
- Michael Copley
WA’s 2025 legislative session: New governor, new budget, new laws

2025 was a year of change for the Washington state legislature. Legislators navigated a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, a first-time governor with strong thoughts about taxes, and challenges from the second Trump Administration. KUOW’s Olympia Correspondent Jeanie Lindsay will tell us what we need to know.
- Vaughan Jones
More and more older Americans want to know their Alzheimer's status, survey finds

A survey of 1700 Americans 45 and older found that 79% would want to know if they were in the early stages of Alzheimer's.
- Jon Hamilton
A man chopped down Los Angeles trees. The crime cut deep in the struggling neighborhood

For days, police say, Samuel Patrick Groft cruised through the streets of Los Angeles on his bicycle, single-handedly chopping down about a dozen city trees with an electric chainsaw in three different neighborhoods.
- Vanessa Romo
Word of the Week: Crimea's tumultuous history shrouds the origin of its very name

At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, having been at various times in its long history either coveted, conquered or controlled by various powers.
- Scott Neuman
Can charter schools be religious? If so, what does that mean for public education?

The case could transform public education in the Unites States.
- Nina Totenberg
Georgian filmmaker embedded in a birth clinic for a year to make abortion drama

Dea Kulumbegashvili embedded for a year inside a maternity clinic for her new film, April, about an obstetrician in rural Georgia, as the country faces increased abortion restrictions.
- Leila Fadel

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