Some film professors are bemoaning the shortcuts students take to avoid watching assigned movies: some don't know what happens at the end. NPR's Scott Simon offers his own synopses. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5695142/opinion-alternate-endings-for-modern-attention-spans

Olympic figure skating is often seems to take athletes to the very edge of perfection, but even the greatest stumble and fall. How do they pull themselves together again on the biggest world stage? Toughness, poise and practice. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704342/after-the-fall-how-olympic-figure-skaters-soar-after-stumbling-on-the-ice

Leprosy is one of the least contagious diseases around — and perhaps one of the most misunderstood. The colonies are relics of a not-too-distant past when those diagnosed with leprosy were exiled. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/g-s1-108321/leprosy-india-colony

The first season of The Pitt was about acute problems. The second is about chronic ones. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5699523/the-pitt-season-2-hbo-max-noah-wyle

An ACL tear would keep almost any other athlete from competing -- but not Lindsey Vonn, the 41-year-old superstar skier who is determined to cap off an incredible comeback from retirement with one last shot at an Olympic medal. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5702223/lindsey-vonn-ski-the-olympic-downhill-torn-acl

A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704402/boycott-tech-ice-scott-galloway

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. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5702494/cia-world-factbook-dead

Trump got elected promising to usher in a crypto revolution. More than a year later, bitcoin's price has come tumbling down. What happened? #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704279/trump-crypto-bitcoin-winter

Japan's first female premier has called snap elections for Sunday. She seeks a mandate for what could be sweeping changes and possibly a lurch to the political right. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5699259/japans-first-female-prime-minister-stakes-her-future-on-snap-elections

NPR reporters at the Milan opening ceremony layered up and took notes. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5704823/winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-highlights

Two hospitals in California are discontinuing hormone treatments for transgender youth, citing Trump administration pressures. In the past year, many hospitals and clinics have scaled back that care. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5694689/californias-largest-childrens-hospital-system-ends-gender-affirming-care-for-youth

Athletes from around the world attended the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5704261/photos-2026-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony

Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since President Trump returned for a second term. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5689923/drop-in-cdc-health-alerts-hans

President Trump's popularity on one of his political strengths is in jeopardy. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5697026/trumps-harsh-immigration-tactics-are-taking-a-political-hit

Congress allocated $50 billion for initiatives aimed at supporting democracy, scholarship programs, U.S. embassy operations and health and humanitarian programs around the world. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5702252/foreign-aid-trump-cuts

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., urges his GOP counterparts to "rein in" ICE and discusses his 10-point list of demands to do so. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5702686/hakeem-jeffries-reform-dhs-ice-shootings

Trump's racist post came at the end of a minute-long video promoting conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5704281/trump-posts-racist-meme-of-the-obamas-then-deletes-it

The Epstein scandal has spread to the Olympic movement. The top organizer of the Los Angeles Summer Games faces calls to step down because of his past contacts with Epstein collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5704177/behind-the-glitz-in-milan-the-epstein-scandal-casts-its-shadow-over-the-olympic-movement

Since his first term, President Trump has wanted to be able to fire federal employees for any reason. A new rule vastly expands his authority to do that. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5704171/trump-fire-federal-employees-schedule-f