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Athletes from around the world attended the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan.

The Winter Olympics bring hundreds of the world's best winter athletes to northern Italy, where they will face off in 16 different sports across 2 1/2 weeks. Here's how to follow along.

For many decades, Olympic Games included "demonstration sports." Some, like curling, became part of the permanent roster. But others, like skijoring, didn't stick around.

The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security.

New Jersey voters head to the polls for one of the year's first congressional primaries. WNYC's Mike Hayes discusses the special election for the House seat left open by now-Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

NPR reporters at the Milan opening ceremony layered up and took notes.

The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.

O'Hara enjoyed a six-decade career in TV and films playing sometimes over-the-top, but endearing characters. "I loved playing cocky untalented people," she told Fresh Air in 1992.

The Utah Climate Center's Casey Olsen predicts low snowfall and changing temperatures.