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U.S. winter Olympians — whose sports can defy gravity and involve breakneck speeds on snow and ice — share some of their most common nightmares in a special NPR Up First podcast from Pyeongchang.

It was a hard-won medal, on a day where 20 racers crashed out of the course as they tried to carve out time and move up the leaderboard.

WTJX's radio and television studios in St. Thomas were destroyed by Hurricane Irma. As they rebuild, station officials want enough redundancies in the system to prevent future outages.

China listed 106 items it could hit with tariffs, this time including America's biggest export to the country: soybeans.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is fending off a series of ethics investigations, amid lukewarm support from the White House.

And a list of the most challenged books, in this week's roundup of education news.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said a team of nine inspectors arrived in Damascus on Saturday but hasn't been allowed to go to the site of the alleged chemical attack.

Speedskater Kimani Griffin will make his first Olympic appearance for the 2018 Winter Games next month, but he's no stranger to the spotlight. NPR's Michel Martin talks with Griffin about the trip.

The paper reports that the president backed off when his chief lawyer threatened to quit if the plan went ahead. In Switzerland for an economic forum, Trump dismissed the report as "fake news."

Host Ari Shapiro talks with Patricia Freeman, a passenger on the Amtrak train that derailed today in Washington state, about what it was like to be on the train as it crashed.