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The relationship between the Trump administration and the Environmental Protection Agency is off to a rough start. The new administration has instructed officials to freeze its grants and contracts, external communication has been frozen, and academic papers by agency scientists may be subject to review before publication. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Tracey Woodruff, a former senior scientist and policy advisor at the EPA under the Clinton and Bush administration, about whether previous transitions in administrations have always had been this rocky.

President Trump is expected to unveil more executive actions that will stir up controversy. We look at Trump's executive actions and interactions with foreign leaders in his first week.

Naomi Yang (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi) directs a video for the Beijing husband-and-wife duo's languid and blissfully noisy shoegaze song about finding connection in isolation.

Watch the Virginia band sweep the NPR crowd off its feet with a collection of exquisite boleros by Puerto Rican composer Sylvia Rexach.

Millsap delivers a staggering rendition of "The Very Last Day" in a performance recorded for an upcoming episode of Austin City Limits.

Rock historian missed the "Prefab Four" the first time they came along. Listening now, he finds that the Monkees' best songs have held up, mostly because they used top-notch songwriting talent.

Thawing permafrost threatens infrastructure …A new study says the thawing of permafrost accelerated by a warming climate could destabilize at least a…

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Journalist Evan Osnos talks about tech executives who are prepping for doomsday. Maureen Corrigan reviews A Really Good Day. Director Kenneth Lonergan discusses Manchester By The Sea.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with a US veteran about his former Iraqi translator, Hameed Khalid Darweesh, who was stopped at JFK Airport last night while entering the country to join his wife.