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Thousands of teens suffer from a rare chronic pain condition that makes everyday life excruciating. Some are trying a counterintuitive treatment approach: Load up on pain until you learn to ignore it.

Also in this week's education roundup: a new head for Federal Student Aid, and a California law aims to make charter schools more transparent.

It was Oregon's first pediatric case in more than 30 years. "It was difficult to take care of him, to watch him suffer," says Judith Guzman-Cottrill, an infectious-disease specialist.

More girls are taking to the ice — not as figure skaters — but as hockey players. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with The Wall Street Journal's Anne Marie Chaker about her report on girls in ice hockey.

Venezuela is suffering one of the country's largest electricity outages in years. The nationwide blackout comes after sanctions stripped President Nicolas Maduro's embattled administration of cash.

The lawsuit argues that U.S. Soccer has a policy of paying the women's team less than the men's. "We deserved to be paid equally for our work, regardless of our gender," says player Alex Morgan.

Fresh Air marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Puzo's novel by listening back to our '96 interview with Puzo, and our '16 interview with Coppola, who adapted the novel into the film.

The economy added far fewer jobs than expected in February, a slowdown from much stronger gains in December and January. But the jobless rate fell to 3.8 percent, and earnings growth picked up.

American Michael Calvey moved to Moscow 25 years ago and started one of Russia's most successful investment funds. He's in a Russian jail awaiting trial after a dispute with his business partners.

With the Islamic State almost forced out of Syria, has the U.S. met its objectives in the battle against ISIS? Steve Inskeep talks to Jasmine el Gamal, a former Middle East adviser at the Pentagon.