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Airlines lose a passenger's bag every 90 seconds.

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.

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 decision comes after revelations that a recently passed bill could impact decades-old murder cases.

House GOP-backed work rules for food assistance have been the biggest hurdle in finalizing the farm bill. And now, the impending Democratic takeover of the House next year has shifted leverage.

Democrats spent the night on the Senate floor to oppose the nomination of Betsy DeVos as education secretary. Two Republicans say they won't support her nomination.

The California Legislature has wrapped up its two-year session.

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.

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.

The storm surge started pushing water into areas around Lake Pontchartrain Friday, as Barry slowly moved toward shore. Some inland areas could see 3 feet to as much as 6 feet of water.