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Tennessee, a state that has been ahead of most in its testing since the start of the pandemic, reached a milestone over the weekend: more than 1 million people tested

As the news comes in tonight about the Republican presidential campaign's 10 Super Tuesday contests, we'll be helping out the Elections Desk by live blogging. Follow our updates right on the NPR.org homefront.

The Greek government and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announce an agreement to return two works currently held in the Getty's collection. The return comes after the Greek government was able to prove the two antiquities were stolen.

John Kenneth Galbraith -- social economist, Harvard professor, diplomat -- is dead at 97. His work influenced Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson and generations of U.S. politicians. He spoke to Howard Berkes in 1999.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Kathy Emerson from Brunswick, Maine. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WMEA in Portland.)

This is a series is about where germs come from. In this first of three episodes, we see what our early encounters with germs may have been like, and how germs initially got an upper hand.

The pandemic drove U.S. life expectancy down again in 2021 even though life-saving vaccines were widely available.

Snoopy, the dog from the Peanuts comic strip, once said, "Cats are the crab grass on the lawn of life."

The 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that long obedience in the same direction results in making life worth living.

More than 300 superdelegates across the country have yet to commit to either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. California has the most superdelegates, and nearly two dozen of them are uncommitted — about twice as many as any other state. One of them is Rep. Sam Farr.