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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
Chapter 2: What recent decision did the Pentagon make regarding Harvard University?
The Pentagon says it's cutting ties with Harvard University. NPR's Shondalese Duster reports officials are accusing the Ivy League school of promoting anti-American ideals.
Defense Secretary Pete Hexef says the Pentagon is ending all professional military education. certificate programs, and fellowships with Harvard University. Heksev, who received a master's degree from Harvard but later denounced it, said in a video posted to social media that many officers received, quote, radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks.
For too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class. Instead, too many of our officers came back looking too much like Harvard.
Hexef said service members currently enrolled at the university will be able to finish their studies. Shondalese Duster, NPR News.
U.S. alpine skiing star Lindsey Vonn crashed at today's Women's Downhill at the Winter Olympics in Italy and is out of metal contention. Vonn landed a jump perpendicular to the slope and tumbled to a stop shortly below. Her condition is not yet known.
The 41-year-old had retired from competitive skiing in 2019 after repeated injuries, but following a partial knee replacement, she returned to World Cup competition in 2024. Another round of dangerous winter weather is moving from the Great Lakes into the eastern U.S. today. NPR's Marie Andrusiewicz reports tens of millions of people are under extreme cold warnings.
An arctic air mass from eastern Canada is bringing the lowest temperatures so far this winter, in some cases as much as 30 degrees below average. In Boston overnight, temperatures dropped to single digits. In D.C., potentially damaging wind gusts reached up to 55 miles per hour. Forecasters are warning of the risk of hypothermia and frostbite, saying exposure to the extreme cold could be deadly.
NPR's Marie Andrusovich. China says it's conducted air and navy patrols around disputed waters in the South China Sea. NPR's Emily Fang reports the move is an attempt to push back against the Philippines, which claims territory in the area.
China's Southern Theater Command, which oversees the South China Sea, said it had deployed patrols all last week in the area to counter a country China left unnamed. Late last month, the U.S. and the Philippines joined up for a joint military patrol in the South China Sea.
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