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Mask mandates are being lifted across the country, but high school basketball players on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming are happy their mandate is staying for now.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks do deputy national security adviser Jon Finer about the U.S. and its allies plans for sanctions after Russian President Putin ordered troops to Ukraine's separatist regions.

The PyeongChang 2018 Olympics will be the first Winter Olympics to feature figure skaters performing to music with lyrics.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee about the measure they have proposed: The Kids Online Safety Act.

Julia May Jonas' debut novel centers around a women's lit professor whose feminist credentials are jeopardized because of her husband's bad behavior — and by her own relationship with a colleague.

Nelson Mandela is the former president of South Africa and famed leader of the anti-apartheid movement. Blogger and professor Sean Jacobs recommends three books that explore the leader's life and legacy in great detail.

The Labor Department released the jobs report for November on Friday morning. The report showed that 204,000 jobs were added to payrolls last month and the unemployment rate dropped to 7 percent, a five-year low.

Melissa Block speaks with regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times for the latest in political news.

Sarah Palin said she lost sleep after a 2017 New York Times editorial falsely linked an ad from her political action committee to a mass shooting years earlier. She has sued the paper for defamation.

The revered critic Greg Tate, an early and influential hip hop writer, has died. Tate grew up around intellectuals and developed a rabid curiosity about music, film, literature, theory and politics.