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Athletes from North and South Korea joined together for the Olympics. NPR's Michel Martin talks with Randi Griffin, an American whose mom is South Korean, about playing on the women's ice hockey team.

Many of those Iraqis — in the U.S. legally but not American citizens — came to the U.S. as children. Most arrived back in Iraq without the documents or skills to get by.

A chance encounter with a little girl in an ice cream store inspired R.J. Palacio to write a novel about a boy born with distorted facial features. She says it got her thinking about what it's like to "have to face a world every day that doesn't know how to face you back."

Lemon was arrested by U.S. agents days after covering an anti-ICE protest at a St. Paul, Minn., church. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi called the protest a "coordinated attack."

Comedian Ben Palmer specializes in pranks. One of his more recent ideas for a prank was to set up a fake tip line for people to call in and report undocumented immigrants. He got hundreds of calls.

The government is set to shutdown at the end of the day Friday. Shutdowns have evolved in recent years from rare collapses of government function to increasingly frequent political tools.

Many deportees have arrived in Iraq without money, valid IDs or knowledge of the language and country. They struggle to find work and fear going out. "Everything is shocking to me," one deportee says.

Coca-Cola is returning to Myanmar after 60 years. They'd been kept out of the country by international sanctions. This week they officially opened their new plant outside of Yangon.

The Truman administration saw huge strategic value in the island as a geographic bulwark against the Soviet Union. Ultimately, the U.S. got access to Greenland without needing to purchase it.

Bundle up and check out drive-through and drone light shows, reserve an igloo or watch a good, old-fashioned Christmas tree lighting.