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 Live from NPR, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Months after he was stripped [剥夺] of his royal titles [皇室头衔], including prince, today Andrew Mountbatten Windsor became the first senior member of the British monarchy [皇室] in modern history to be arrested. He is now out on bail [保释]. The former prince is accused [被指控] of using his previous position as trade envoy [贸易特使] to share sensitive government information with Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy [富有的] financier [财经人士] who died in a New York jail cell [监狱牢房] in 2019 as a known child sex offender [性罪犯] and an accused human trafficker [拐卖人口罪犯]. Another prominent [著名的] Epstein associate [关联人], President Trump, reacted to today's news out of Britain. It's really interesting because nobody used to speak about Epstein when he was alive, but now they speak. But I'm the one that can talk about it because I've been totally exonerated [洗清罪名]. A congressional committee is looking at investigations into Epstein and associates, including the reams [成摞的] of materials recently released by the Justice Department. New NPR reporting on DOJ Files paints a fuller picture of how convicted [被判有罪的] sex offenders Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell use an arts camp to prey [捕猎] on young girls in the 1990s. NPR's Ava Berger has more. According to files released by the DOJ, Epstein donated more than $400,000 to Interlochen Center for the Arts. That included an on-campus lodge [小屋]. He and Maxwell used it during brief stays for several summers between 1994 and 2000. They reportedly walked their small dog around campus, using it as an icebreaker [破冰的手段] to meet two young teenage girls. One of them, now an adult, spoke to NPR on the condition of anonymity [匿名]. She said she experienced, quote, grooming [猥亵] behavior while unsupervised [没有被监护的状态下] at Epstein's Lodge. Former administrator Russ McMahon described the campus as open and welcoming at the time. In hindsight [回过头看], mistakes may have been made. Today, the campus has significantly increased security. Ava Berger, Washington.

President Trump hosted the first meeting of his Board of Peace, which was formed to help rebuild Gaza [加沙]. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports Trump announced the U.S. will contribute $10 billion to the board. The White House says more than 40 nations sent representatives, including heads of state from Argentina [阿根廷], Hungary [匈牙利], and others, to attend the meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace. The president said those involved have promised $7 billion to the effort. This is something very special, and we're going to straighten out [使重回正轨] Gaza. We're going to make Gaza very successful and safe. And we're also going to maybe take it a step further where we see hot spots around the world. We can probably do that very easily. But several key U.S. allies [盟友] did not join the talks, including the U.K., France, and Sweden, who declined to join the board over concerns about the charter [组织], including concerns it would rival [对抗] the United Nations. It's NPR.

Fire crews [救火人员] in Oklahoma have been facing down multiple wildfires. Governor Kevin Stitt tells NPR he declared emergencies [宣布紧急状态] in at least three counties. We had to evacuate [撤离] the town of Tyrone, Woodward. They're about 15 to 20 percent contained [（火势）被控制], but we have about, I don't know, 150,000 acres [公顷] so far that's burned. Reports of livestock [牲口] that were damaged. Actually, the fires have now burned roughly 300,000 acres. 

In the Winter Olympic Games in Milan, the U.S. women's hockey [冰球] team has won gold. They defeated arch-rival [宿敌] Canada 2-1 in sudden death overtime [加时赛]. The U.S. and Canada are the only teams to have won gold since women's hockey became an Olympic sport in 1998. Well, a brand-new Olympic sport played out for the very first time in the snowy Alps today at the Games. We're talking about ski mogul [颠簸雪道]. NPR's Brian Mann has more. Ski mountaineering combines skills used when skiing in the wild mountain backcountry [荒野地区]. Athletes hike on boots at times. They ski uphill using special traction [止滑带] skins on their skis. Then they plunge down [滑下去] a winding [蜿蜒的] alpine course [路线]. In this premier [首次举行的] event for the sport at the Olympic level, the French, Spanish, and Swiss dominated, as expected. U.S. skiers Cam Smith and Anna Gibson raced early in qualifying [资格赛] heats but failed to reach the final round of sprint racing [冲刺赛]. They'll both have one more outing [出场] in a team relay [团队接力] on Saturday. Still to come this weekend, for the first time ever in these Olympics, women will cross-country ski [越野滑雪] a full 50-kilometer marathon [马拉松]. It's the same distance as the men. That'll be the final Olympic race for U.S. cross-country skiing legend Jesse Diggins, who says these are her last winter games. That's NPR's Brian Mann. It's NPR.