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Chinese collectors and corporations are using their new wealth to buy back some of the thousands of China's art treasures that have been lost overseas, plundered in war and stolen by tomb robbers. One company has made this its specialty: the Poly Corporation, which started as an arms trading branch of China's military.

The era of the slide projector is all but forgotten in the digital age. Now a new exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art reminds us of how the simple mechanical device has the potential to astound and enlighten art lovers.

The wildfires are largely out in places like the Columbia River Gorge and the southern Oregon coast, but the economic fallout continues in many nearby communities.

One of two small aircraft flying together in an aerial photoshoot malfunctioned and landed in the ocean near Half Moon Bay on Tuesday evening.

Scott Simon remarks on how details during times of war, from personal stories, capture the true devastation of it.

The death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. is nearing 200,000, and 8 out of 10 of those deaths reported in the country are among adults over 65. NPR remembers a few of those individuals.

Balancing sadness for the losses with hope about what's been saved, heritage workers are in the early stages of planning recovery and restoration efforts.

Nancy Yao Maasbach, president of the Museum of Chinese in America, talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about the many items in their permanent collection destroyed by a fire last week.

Half a century ago, the Kerner Commission examined the root causes of the bloody uprisings that tore through poor, urban communities across the country. Its findings remain strikingly relevant today.