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Feb 13, 2026
Malinin, undefeated since 2023, stumbled and fell multiple times, landing far off the podium. Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan won gold in an upset that shocked even himself.
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Feb 13, 2026
Malinin, undefeated since 2023, stumbled and fell multiple times, landing far off the podium. Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan won gold in an upset that shocked even himself.
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Feb 13, 2026
As Valentine's Day approaches, we take a look at monogamy and its alternatives among animals — including humans.
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Feb 13, 2026
After the fall of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's new leaders promise amnesty and reconciliation — but for hundreds still jailed and thousands facing charges, justice remains uncertain.
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Feb 13, 2026
After the fall of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's new leaders promise amnesty and reconciliation — but for hundreds still jailed and thousands facing charges, justice remains uncertain.
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Feb 13, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Chrystia Freeland, former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and current economic adviser to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, about Ukraine.
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Feb 13, 2026
Mikaela Shiffrin is the winningest Alpine ski racer ever, but she's been unable to medal in the last two Olympics. She has some barriers to overcome if she's going to succeed in Cortina.
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Feb 13, 2026
The news of Kristi Reeves' finalized divorce hit her hard, so she grabbed her shoes and headed for the mountains. On the trail, she encountered a couple.
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Feb 13, 2026
President Trump has shown a willingness to attack Democratic norms and traditions, including injecting partisanship in places typically immune to it.
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Feb 13, 2026
Wagner Moura is the first-ever Brazilian to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in "The Secret Agent." On Wild Card, he reflected on his career on stage.
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Feb 13, 2026
Dungeons & Dragons is known as a niche role-playing game. But now game masters are exploring whether it can also be therapeutic, for conditions ranging from anxiety to PTSD.
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Feb 13, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security is on track to shut down Friday night after Congress left town without a deal to fund the department and limit the tactics of federal immigration officers.
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Feb 13, 2026
Friday the 13th comes in both February and March this year, bringing scary movies with it. Does releasing horror movies on the scariest day of the year bring a bump at the box office?
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Feb 13, 2026
It's been five years since a major winter freeze swept Texas, leaving millions of people without power for days and killing at least 246. The storm left a lasting imprint on many Texans, with natural disasters sparking concerns about the grid's reliability. Since then, the state has required its natural gas providers to weatherize their power plants and expanded its battery storage and renewable energy sources. But challenges still remain. Economists say energy demand is growing, as the state's population increases and more data centers come to Texas.
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Feb 12, 2026
The protests in Iran have been about human rights, corruption, freedom — but they were sparked by economic hardship, caused in part by U.S. sanctions. How did they play into the events in Iran?
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Feb 12, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and Correspondent Rob Schmitz discuss Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, at to the Munich Security Conference.
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Feb 12, 2026
Lawmakers are just beginning to review unredacted versions of the Epstein files but those who have read them say the system is complicated and insufficient.
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Feb 12, 2026
A bipartisan effort in Congress to restrain immigration enforcement tactics is flailing. It wouldn't be the first time recently that lawmakers pledged to find consensus, only for negotiations to fail.
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Feb 12, 2026
NATO members have launched a new Arctic initiative after President Trump's threats to take over Greenland.
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Feb 12, 2026
The recent deep freeze across much of the U.S. has created one of the best opportunities in decades to sail ice boats across frozen bays and rivers — including the Chesapeake Bay.
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Feb 12, 2026
The recent deep freeze across much of the U.S. has created the best opportunity in decades to sail ice boats across frozen bays and rivers — including Chesapeake Bay.
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Feb 12, 2026
At the Illinois gathering of the Future City competition, 16 middle school teams presented their concepts for cutting-edge cities.
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Feb 12, 2026
This week the Ghanian musician Ebo Taylor died at 90 years old. While he was not well known in the U.S. he was a star in Africa, and a defining force in highlife music.
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Feb 12, 2026
Iranians living in Turkey are hearing chilling stories from relatives at home — and receiving death threats themselves.
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Feb 12, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson about the FAA's temporary closure of airspace over the city, and how it was communicated to city leaders.
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Feb 12, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, German Marshall Fund president, ahead of the Munich Security Conference.
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Feb 12, 2026
The Grammy Awards show is influencing people's listening habits this week.
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Feb 12, 2026
Border czar Tom Homan says the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota is ending. Gov. Tim Walz says he's cautiously optimistic and wants the federal government to pay for the damage it's caused.
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Feb 12, 2026
World leaders at the Munich Conference have often signaled major historical shifts in their speeches.
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Feb 12, 2026
A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on itself and formed a black hole.
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Feb 12, 2026
Elite athletes often push through pain to achieve victory. But, everyday exercisers need to distinguish between soreness which is normal and pain which is the body's way of telling you to stop.
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Feb 12, 2026
She's done it again. Jessie Diggins, age 34 and skiing in her final Olympics, captured a bronze medal for the U.S. at the Milan Cortina Games. She battled through the pain from injured ribs to reach the podium.
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Feb 11, 2026
As several global tensions simmer, the Pentagon is removing thousands of transgender troops under Sec.Hegseth's anti-DEI push. How might a focus on gender identity distract from mission readiness?
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Feb 11, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Emily Nemens about her latest novel, Clutch, which tells the story of five women and their lifelong friendship.
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Feb 11, 2026
The reading of Supreme Court opinions can only be seen by those inside the court. An AI project is trying to change that.
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Feb 11, 2026
Bangladeshis go to the polls for the first time since they overthrew their former autocratic leader. Will voters trust the results?
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Feb 11, 2026
A group of Buddhist monks walked from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., in the name of peace. Their journey concludes on Wednesday.
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Feb 11, 2026
A group of Buddhist monks walked from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., in the name of peace. The 108-day pilgrimage captivated Americans.
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Feb 11, 2026
The secretary of Veterans Affairs testified before a house committee today for just the second time during the Trump administration, to explain a national plan to drastically streamline VA bureaucracy.
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Feb 11, 2026
Attorney General Pam Bondi testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday before House lawmakers in a frequently combative hearing.
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Feb 11, 2026
Refugees from three continents are suing the Department of Homeland Security, saying immigration agents illegally arrested and detained them as part of a Trump administration review of asylum seekers.
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Feb 11, 2026
The Trump administration's immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis has pushed many immigrant communities away from hospitals and doctors. Some have responded with underground clinics.
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Feb 11, 2026
The immigration crackdown in Minneapolis has pushed many people in the city to stay at home for the last few months. Doctors say the trend is alarming, and may have lasting effects.
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Feb 11, 2026
A Norwegian cross-country skier is on track to become the winningest winter Olympian ever. Johannes Klaebo is a talent the likes of which the world has never seen.
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Feb 11, 2026
Five of the 23 members of the women's Olympic hockey team representing the U.S. come from a small Catholic school in Upstate New York. Bishop Kearney High School is becoming a hockey power.
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Feb 11, 2026
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., about current congressional negotiations regarding funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
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Feb 11, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, about how the organization is scaling operations in Gaza to serve one million meals a day.
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Feb 11, 2026
Van Der Beek played Dawson Leery on the hit show Dawson's Creek. He announced his colon cancer diagnosis in 2024.
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Feb 11, 2026
U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3% from 4.4% in December. Annual revisions show that job growth last year was far weaker than initially reported.
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Feb 11, 2026
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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Feb 11, 2026
Vladyslav Heraskevych, a skeleton sled racer, wore a helmet on Wednesday showing images of Ukrainian athletes killed defending his country against Russia's full-scale invasion. International Olympic Committee officials say the helmet violates rules designed to keep politics out of the Olympics.
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Feb 10, 2026
U.S. forces are likely in places such as Puerto Rico for the long haul, as the Trump administration tries to reshape U.S. priorities in the Caribbean and South America.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Declaration of Independence states that all men have certain "unalienable rights." From Mark Twain to Jon Stewart, satirists have picked apart that guarantee and what politicians do to honor it.
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Feb 10, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former prime minister of Denmark and former head of NATO, ahead of the Munich Security Conference.
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Feb 10, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former prime minister of Denmark and former head of NATO, ahead of the Munich Security Conference.
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Feb 10, 2026
Unusually warm weather in the Rocky Mountains has meant the Ouray Ice Park in Colorado has been bare rock. Now that freezing temperatures have returned, there's a rush to scale the ice.
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Feb 10, 2026
President Trump's peace plan for Gaza has been rejected by far-right Israeli officials who want the land for Jewish settlements.
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Feb 10, 2026
After connecting through social media, an informal network of moms started crowdfunding to help families in Gaza afford food and shelter.
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Feb 10, 2026
Research shows it helps to start small if you want new habits to stick.
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Feb 10, 2026
Edible cotton seeds could revolutionize the cotton industry. That's the goal of one researcher who says the seeds would be an inexpensive protein source that could help feed millions of people.
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Feb 10, 2026
A group of Latino high school students in Chicago didn't feel represented by a local museum. They successfully petitioned the museum, resulting in a new exhibit reflecting local Latino history.
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Feb 10, 2026
The hearing underscored how deeply divided Republicans and Democrats remain on top-level changes to immigration enforcement in the wake of the shootings of two U.S. citizens.
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Feb 10, 2026
College athletic departments are now spending big on their communication departments. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Ellyn Briggs, a contributor to Front Office Sports, about why.
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Feb 10, 2026
American women continue to dominate alpine ski racing events in the Winter Olympics, and American men win their first medal in cross-country skiing in 50 years.
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Feb 10, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Carol Leonnig about the Department of Justice under Pam Bondi's watch. Leonnig co-authored Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department.
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Feb 10, 2026
With the race still too close to call, former congressman Tom Malinowski conceded to challenger Analilia Mejia in a Democratic primary to replace the seat vacated by New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill.
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Feb 09, 2026
In Jewish tradition, after someone dies, the anniversary of their death is marked by lighting a yahrzeit candle. It comes in a stubby glass holder. In some families, that old glass found a new use.
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Feb 09, 2026
The Seattle Seahawks won their second Super Bowl with a convincing victory over the New England Patriots. People in Seattle started the celebrations even before the game was over.
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Feb 09, 2026
One type of cognitive training appears to reduce the risk of dementia 20 years later.
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Feb 09, 2026
The FBI says AI is complicating the idea of a proof of life message in the search for Savannah Guthrie's mom. Experts say AI needs just a few short clips of a person to render a convincing fake.
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Feb 09, 2026
At the American University of Beirut where up to 1,600 rescued cats roam the campus.
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Feb 09, 2026
Under pressure to reform, the Palestinian Authority is ending its payments to families whose relatives are killed or jailed by Israel.
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Feb 09, 2026
Organizers of a truffle dog championship for amateurs in Oregon hope it will draw more people to truffle hunting with dogs, which some experts say could improve the Pacific Northwest's truffle crop.
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Feb 09, 2026
Biathlon is the only winter Olympic sport in which the U.S. has never medaled. But this year, the U.S. has the two standout biathletes and a coach who grew up on the doorstep of the Olympic venue.
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Feb 09, 2026
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, we watched the Super Bowl halftime show with the audience Bad Bunny has represented since his start: his fellow Puerto Ricans.
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Feb 09, 2026
King Charles' brother lost his titles, the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. resigned, and there are calls for the prime minister to resign. Why does the Epstein fallout seem to be greater in the U.K.?
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Feb 09, 2026
King Cake, the New Orleans Mardi Gras staple, is not easy to make. A cooking class can help.
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Feb 09, 2026
Bad Bunny delivered a joyful 13-minute Super Bowl halftime performance with a message of unity as well as pride in Latin American culture at a time when many Latinos in the U.S. feel under attack.
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Feb 09, 2026
The dive bar Jimmy's Corner has been a Times Square institution for over 50 years. Now it faces eviction.
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Feb 09, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Ainsley Harris, senior writer at Fast Company, about the accelerated rollout of delivery robots and how they're being received in communities across the country.
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Feb 09, 2026
Their lawyers fear the notices are merely the first step toward the removal without due process of Somali asylum applicants in the country.
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Feb 09, 2026
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind them. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in COVID times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
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Feb 08, 2026
Research shows it helps to start small if you want new habits to stick. NPR's Life Kit has more.
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Feb 08, 2026
The physics of the spiral pass have baffled physicists and football fans for decades.
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Feb 08, 2026
NPR's Emily Kwong talks with Mara Hoplamazian about the new podcast, "Safe to Drink," about Merrimack, New Hampshire's fight for clean drinking water.
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Feb 08, 2026
On day two of the Olympic Winter Games, downhill skier Breezy Johnson captured the first gold for Team USA. And alpine racer Lindsay Vonn crashed and was transported to the hospital with a broken leg.
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Feb 08, 2026
After months of wrangling and much tension, India and the US have finally released a framework for an interim trade agreement
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Feb 08, 2026
Scientists have placed two seismometers 8000 feet below the ice cap at the South Pole to measure earthquakes and support tsunami alerts.
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Feb 08, 2026
More than a week after one of the worst train accidents in Spain's history, many questions remain unanswered, and survivors struggle to move on.
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Feb 07, 2026
Wendy Weiser, the vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice, discusses the impact of President Trump's recent urging of Republicans to "nationalize" voting.
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Feb 07, 2026
In the first electoral temperature check in Minnesota since President Trump launched Operation Metro Surge to ramp up immigration enforcement in the state, voters had a lot to say.
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Feb 07, 2026
An update on the suicide bombing in Pakistan's capital that killed 31 people.
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Feb 07, 2026
As indirect talks begin between the U.S. and Iran over that country's nuclear program, Ryan Fayhee, lawyer for journalist Abdolreza Valizadeh, talks about his concern for his client, who is being held in Evin prison in Tehran.
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Feb 07, 2026
Danish veterans of the war in Iraq want an apology from Trump over Greenland stance.
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Feb 07, 2026
Rachel Goes to the Games newsletter writer recounts the thrill of attending an Olympics opening ceremony for the first time.
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Feb 07, 2026
NPR's Mia Venkat explains what the internet was obsessed with this week: the jazzy jingles made by content creator Romeo.
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