All Things Considered
A protester with a sign saying "Federal Employees Don't Work for Kings" demonstrates in support of federal workers and against recent actions by President Trump and Elon Musk on Presidents Day in Washington, D.C. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
A protester with a sign saying "Federal Employees Don't Work for Kings" demonstrates in support of federal workers and against recent actions by President Trump and Elon Musk on Presidents Day in Washington, D.C. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
Court considers halting Trump’s mass firings of federal employees
Stella Davidsen Olsen, a musher in Greenland, helps guide her sled dogs to turn around and head back home. Grace Widyatmadja/NPR hide caption
How Greenland's cherished sled dog tradition is threatened by climate change
Veterans groups raise the alarm about DOGE cuts at the VA
Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first prime minister, in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat. Kino Lorber hide caption
Oscars 2025
Jazz, politics, continents collide in Oscar-nominated 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat'
Michelle Trachtenberg starred as Georgina on the CW show Gossip Girl and Dawn in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. She's pictured above in 2015. Omar Vega/Invision/AP hide caption
Middle East
Palestinian man imprisoned for suicide bombing freed after hostages released from Gaza
President Donald Trump says rampant drug smuggling and overdose deaths are largely the fault of three countries - Canada, China and Mexico - and he says tough tariffs are the answer. But Canada plays almost no role in the U.S. overdose crisis and drug deaths have been plummeting. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption
Politics
Trump says new tariffs will cut U.S. drug deaths but fatal overdoses were already plummeting
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) supporters hold banners as USAID workers retrieve their personal belongings from the USAID's headquarters in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption
USAID workers return to HQ to clear their desks, as Trump dismantles the agency
Music News
Musicians release protest album over proposed changes to U.K. copyright laws around AI
Fifth graders Kenley Taylor (left) and Gabby De Sa (right) work on story outlining during a MagTV morning meeting at Magnolia Elementary School in Carlsbad, Calif. Alan Nakkash for NPR hide caption