Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. A fire at a Swiss alpine bar has killed at least 40 people and injured more than 100 others, many of them seriously. The blaze broke out during a New Year's Eve celebration at a popular ski resort north of Matterhorn. NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports, and investigation is underway.

Officials have not yet confirmed a cause for the fire.

Two women who escaped the club told French media that they saw a barman carrying a barmaid

on his shoulders and that she'd been holding a champagne bottle with lit sparklers

and that that had set fire to the wooden ceiling.

Videos on social media appear to show flames spreading above the bar.

And a YouTube video from 2024 posted by a channel with the bar's name shows women wearing motorcycle helmets

and carrying bottles of alcohol topped with sparklers as they walk through

the establishment. That's NPR's Ruth Sherlock reporting. It's been five years since mobs attacked

the U.S. Capitol building, but fallout from the January 6th insurrection continues. NPR's,

Katie Riddle reports this week House Republicans released the transcript of their closed-door hearing with

former special counsel, Jack Smith. Jack Smith led two investigations into President Trump, one over

Trump's attempt to cast doubt on the 2020 election results, which led to the January 6th storming

of the Capitol. The second was over Trump's handling of classified documents after leaving the White House.

The Department of Justice dropped both these cases once Trump was elected again in 2024.

And many Republicans have continued to put forth a counter-narrative around the events of January 6th.

But in his recently released testimony, Smith stood by his findings.

President Trump was by a large measure, the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy.

Smith resigned as former President Biden's tenure was coming to a close.

Katie Riddle in PR News.

Today marks 10 years since armed militants seized a national wildlife refuge in Oregon to protest federal land policies.

NPR's Kirk Sigler reports. In late 2016, an Oregon jury acquitted right-wing extremist Amman Bundy for leading an armed takeover of the Malhear National Wildlife Refuge.

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