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Do you ever feel like no matter how many hours of sleep you got, you're still fatigued? We have to be able to differentiate sleep from the different ways that we can rest. On the Life Kit podcast, the seven types of rest, and why each one is important to living a full, healthy life. Listen to the Life Kid podcast in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright. Jeffrey Epstein accomplice, Gieland Maxwell, is expected to appear from prison for a deposition with congressional lawmakers today. In a letter to the House Oversight Committee, Congressman Roe-Kana suggests Maxwell will decline to answer questions by invoking her Fifth Amendment

right against self-incrimination. President Trump is not inviting some Democrats to the National Governors Association dinner at the White House. Democratic Maryland Governor Russ Moore is vice-chair of the National Governor's Association. But he says he's been uninvited this year. Moore says he sees the decision as possibly racially motivated. It's not lost to me that I'm the only black governor in this country. And I find that to be particularly painful, considering the fact that the president is trying to exclude me from an organization that not only all my peers have asked me to help to lead, but then also a place where I know I belong in.

That's Governor Westmore on CNN State of the Union yesterday. The Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl. they beat the New England Patriots 29 to 13 for their second title, a tough loss for Pat's fans, as Rob Lane from Member Station WBUR reports from a watch party in Boston. Fans at ATO Keefe's pub groaned as they watched the game slip away in the third quarter. Raul Kapoor sat brooding at the bar. It burns, honestly. It doesn't feel great. You know, I'll always love the Patriots.

I always have and always will no matter whether they're up or down. But, you know, at the moment, it's a sore feeling. The Patriots won six Super Bowl starting in 2002. But since star quarterback Tom Brady left in 2020, the team's done more losing than winning. This season was a comeback that ultimately came up one game short. Final score, Seahawks 29, Patriots 13. For NPR News, I'm Rob Lane in Boston. Thailand's leading conservative party has won a decisive victory in the general election

and is expected to form a coalition government soon. Michael Sullivan reports. Prime Minister Anitin Chanvira-Kun's Boomjai Party fared far better than pre-election polls suggested, with preliminary results showing it winning nearly 200 seats in the 500-seat parliament, far ahead of the second place Progressive People's Party. Analyst said Boomjai wrote a wave of nationalist fervor, following its performance leading the government in the recent border war with Cambodia. The People's Party's performance was a sharp drop-off from the 2023 election when its previous incarnation won the most seats but was denied the right to lead

by conservative elements in the Senate and the courts. For NPR News, I'm Michael Sullivan in Chang Rai. This is NPR News from Washington. American skier Lindsay Vaughn is in stable condition. She was injured in a dramatic crash in the Olympic downhill race yesterday. She was airlifted off the slope for treatment. NPR's Becky Sullivan has more from Cortina Dompetso, Italy. Lindsay Vaughn's crash looked bad.

Just 13 seconds after she came out of the start house, Vaughn clipped one of the orange gates with the inside of her right arms, swinging her round in midair and crashing hard into the snow. She could be heard wailing on the TV broadcast as a medical team tended to her. The Associated Press reported she was, was taken to a hospital in Treviso, a city two hours to the south. There, the AP said she underwent an operation to stabilize a fracture in her left leg. Vaughn had torn her left ACL just over a week ago but decided to race anyway. It wasn't clear how much of a factor that was in the crash.

Her teammate, Breezy Johnson, won the gold medal, becoming the second American woman to do so at the downhill event, the first, of course, being Vaughn herself back in 2010. Becky Sullivan in PR News, Cortina Dumpetto, Italy. Health officials are warning that confirmed cases of measles may have spread at this year's National March for Life in Washington, D.C. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators converged upon the National Mall last month. The D.C. Health Department says potential exposure sites also include Reagan National Airport, Union Station, Amtrak, and the subway. The U.S. right now is dealing with its biggest measles outbreak in decades. The CDC reports 733 confirmed cases so far this year.

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