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Up First Winter Games brings you the latest news and culture from the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.

Nazgul isn't talking, but his owners come clean about how he got loose, got famous, and how they feel now

Olympics opening ceremonies tend to get more love than their closing counterparts. But a pair of NPR reporters who watched both in Italy left with a newfound appreciation for the latter.

Photographer Martin Roemer visited eight countries — from the U.S. to Senegal to India — to show how our identities are connected to our mode of transportation.

NPR's reporters on the ground in Italy reflect on a far-flung, jam-packed Winter Olympics.

Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black African athlete in the white world of winter sports.

Donald Trump was a factor in Ford's decision to cancel plans to build a new plant in Mexico. Now he has the attention of other U.S. manufacturing firms that were considering a move south.

"Sight isn't the only pathway to understand art," says Carol Wilson of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. There, specially trained docents lead tours using sound, description — and even touch.

A different way of providing counseling is being tested in India. It turns out it was tested — but abandoned — in the U.S. decades ago.

In some cases, the 2008 campaign was their first venture into politics; for many, it hasn't been their last.