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NPR's Rachel Treisman took a pause from watching figure skaters break records to see speed skaters break records. Plus, the surreal experience of watching backflip artist Ilia Malinin.

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.

Even after legalization, illicit cannabis grows continue to pollute California’s public lands. And the contamination, new research shows, lingers.

A Jewish heritage foundation has set out to help restore private property appropriated after Syrian Jews left the country.

Oregon says to keep up with demand, Ashland needs to build more than 3,500 new housing units in the next 20 years, but city officials say that’s not possible.

When U.S. speedskater Conor McDermott-Mostowy makes his Winter Olympic debut in Milan, he'll join a record number of out LGBTQ athletes. But of the 46 out athletes, only 11 are men.

The Trump administration pushed for price transparency in health care. But instead of patients shopping for services, it's mostly health systems and insurers using the information for negotiations.

Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.

A proposal from one Democrat would ask voters to allow the state to keep some of the money that would otherwise flow to taxpayers.

Maxwell declined to answer questions from House lawmakers on Monday, but indicated that if President Trump ended her sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Clinton had done anything wrong in their connections with Epstein.