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Saturday’s competition is the last chance for racers to make it to the Olympics in February. Olympic rosters will be announced at Gondola Plaza at the base of Aspen Mountain following the races.
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On today's newscast: The city of Aspen announced a new program this week to incentivize sustainability upgrades in homes and businesses; people gathered in downtown Carbondale last night for a vigil honoring Renee Nicole Macklin Good; and the U.S. House of Representatives upheld President Trump's veto of a Colorado water pipeline bill despite a bipartisan push to override it. Tune in for these stories and more.
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BSIP/Universal Images Group/via Getty ImagesThe U.S. is cutting the Hepatitis B vaccine from its recommended list. But here's a place where the medical establishment — and a rapper — are eager to obtain it. -
Stephanie Scarbrough/APThis week's competition in St. Louis will skaters tickets to the Milan-Cortina games in February -
Kerem Yucel/MPRMinnesota officials launch their own effort to collect evidence in the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent. The move comes after shootings involving federal agents in Minneapolis and Portland, Ore. -
APYemen's Southern Transitional Council and its institutions will be dismantled after weeks of unrest in southern areas and a day after its leader fled to the United Arab Emirates.
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The use of an image of Trump on the 2026 pass — rather than the usual picture of nature — has sparked a backlash, sticker protests, and a lawsuit from a conservation group. -
U.S. employers added 50,000 jobs in December, according to a report from the Labor Department Friday. Measured annually, job gains in 2025 were the slowest since 2020. -
Venezuela released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists, in what the government described as a gesture to "seek peace". -
In the latest movie from Park Chan-wook, the director behind The Handmaiden and Decision to Leave, a paper factory worker loses his job — and resolves to kill his competition for a new one. -
Here's how to send your questions and curiosities to the NPR team covering the Winter Olympics in Milan. -
Plus: What's up with Wicked, Greenland, quarters and Jan. 6?
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