Hat tricks have a rich history in hockey, but it didn't start there. For NPR's Word of the Week, we trace the term's some 150-year-history and why it's particularly special on the hockey rink.
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More than a thousand people signed up for auditions in hopes of becoming an extra in the upcoming opera of "The Handmaid's Tale" in Detroit.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Maryland's Democratic Gov. Wes Moore about being disinvited from a White House event and his support for redistricting in his state.
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A person was briefly detained in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. The news came hours after the FBI released surveillance footage of a masked person outside Guthrie's home.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Mary Ellen O'Toole, a former FBI senior profiler and professor of forensic science, about the latest in the Nancy Guthrie abduction case.
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NPR's Michel Martin asks Analilia Mejìa what her primary opponent's concession in New Jersey's 11th Congressional District means for the Democratic Party.
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Vladyslav Heraskevych, a skeleton sled racer, says he will wear a helmet showing images of Ukrainian athletes killed defending his country against Russia's full-scale invasion. International Olympic Committee officials say the move would violate rules designed to keep politics out of the Olympics.
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The man serving a life sentence for New Zealand's deadliest mass shooting asked an appeals court to throw out his guilty plea.
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President Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Wednesday. The meeting comes at a critical moment for negotiations between the U.S. and Iran.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who says the U.S. should strike Iran.
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U.S. curlers Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin won a silver medal in mixed doubles Tuesday. It's the first time the U.S. has medaled in this sport. Men's curling begins Wednesday.