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We hear live music from musician Antwaun Stanley, capture the life of painter Gregory Gillespie, and talk about words used by young people with wordster Emily Brewster.

We continue to preview First Night performers with local legend Ray Mason, reflect on a year since the revival of the Triplex Cinema, and explore words-of-the-year beyond Merriam-Webster with the word nerd.

Nonprofit RIP Medical Debt buys up unpaid hospital bills plaguing low-income patients and frees them from having to pay.

Kelsey Snell talks with HBO's Jon Frankel about the explosion of legal sports gambling and the professional leagues' embrace of it.

A handwritten letter to BMC Toys sent by a 6-year-old girl from Arkansas wondering where the female toy solders are prompted soul-searching and eventually a new contingent of Plastic Army Women.

The president tweeted in defense of his travel ban, using language that could hamper his administration's legal argument. The tweets also threaten to overshadow the rollout of infrastructure policy.

Michele Norris and Robert Siegel read from listeners' letters and emails. Among the stories: a staircase at the World Trade Center site; a series on legal immigration; Medicare's drug program; and an effort to ban Hot Cheetos.

Poland is sending more troops to its border with Belarus. Thousands of migrants are trying to cross the frontier there, apparently at the instigation of the Belarusian regime.

Democratic senators are seeking sanctions against Honduras' president for alleged human rights abuses and corruption, and looking to suspend U.S. security assistance to Honduran security forces.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Jerusalem has turned out to be about much more than he bargained for.