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The office of Senate Leader Toni Atkins confirmed the diagnosis of a COVID-19 case in the state Capitol, but wouldn’t provide more details

President Trump's 2020 State of the Union address took theatrics to a new level. We look at what that bodes for his Tuesday address to a joint session of Congress.

A significant power shift begins in Washington with Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives. The incoming speaker plans votes on bills to reopen the government and new rules.

Airlines lose a passenger's bag every 90 seconds.

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan and Hawaii and across the Pacific.

Host John Ydstie tells the story of a retired NFL football player who lost his Super Bowl ring and the Tulane University student who found it. The football player is Warren Bankston, who went to the Super Bowl in 1977 with the Oakland Raiders. The Tulane student is Jessica Thompson.

The news came hours after the announcement that debris from the Titan, collected from the seafloor more than 12,000 feet below the surface of the North Atlantic, had arrived in Newfoundland.

At the American Museum of Natural History, a lost world is taking shape. Artists, writers and scientists have joined forces to create the most up-to-date dinosaur show ever. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.

Munitions, including anti-submarine explosives, have been found. Dumping munitions in bodies of water was a common practice during and after World War Two. Researchers are studying the effects.

Ehrman is the Bowman and Gordon Gray professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina. His newest book is Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. It chronicles the period before Christianity as we know it came to be, when people with conflicting ideas about the religion were fighting for prominence in the second and third centuries. Ehrman also edited a collection of the early non-canonical texts from the first centuries after Christ called Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament.