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To get ready to watch the Winter Olympics, we talk to former Olympian Tricia Byrnes about some snow boarding terminology.

Several athletes are objecting to the International Olympic Committee over sponsorship of the Games by major oil companies. They say fossil fuel use threatens winter conditions needed for snow sports.

President Trump recently signed an executive order targeting large institutional investors that buy up homes. But in some circumstances, those large investors have led to more housing affordability.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons says transgender youth should wait until age 19 to have any surgeries. Surgery is already rarely performed for transgender young people.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Father James Martin about his new book Work in Progress: Confessions of a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, corporate tool, and priest.

NPR's Short Wave talks about babies' perceptions of rhythm, how sleep may help us solve puzzles and why snakes may be able to fast so long.

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson reports on new music shaping the charts.

A once anonymous R. Kelly survivor, Reshona Landfair is now ready to reclaim her voice.

In Kyiv, dance parties on a frozen river keep spirits — and bodies — warm after Russian strikes shattered Ukraine's energy grid.

Medical professionals say the Trump administration's reversal of a policy that kept immigration enforcement from happening in or near medical facilities is having an impact on people's health.