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Idaho Power plans to stop using coal power plants. The news comes as a U.S. energy agency says renewable sources produced a record amount of electricity in 2018.

As it has annually since 2002, the Library of Congress announced a wide variety of recordings it has selected as culturally significant and worthy of preservation.

The winter storm has been linked to at least one death, after a Colorado patrolman was struck by a driver who lost control of his car.

Salvatore Scibona's new novel is a generational saga, an epic of Vietnam and other places rendered in language that makes even simple things sound mythic. But first, a boy is abandoned at an airport.

President Trump recently signed a bill that will create a new branch of the U.S. military called Space Force. The National Guard will play a key role.

NPR international correspondent Jane Arraf shares a scene that never made it into a piece but has stuck with her since she taped it: a dumballa, or bingo, hall in Mosul, Iraq.

"We really wanted to communicate with her and play with her," says Jill McNeil, who lives across the street. "Since she couldn't learn our language, we thought we wanted to learn hers."

Like many resort towns, Sun Valley, Idaho is full of global travelers and wealthy owners of second homes. It's now an epicenter for coronavirus infection, and local leaders want to restrict travel.

Lesson No. 1: Have "proper precautions in place," says historian Richard Evans. And don't "try to hush it up." Thousands died in Hamburg after the government failed to acknowledge a cholera outbreak.

Boris Johnson announced on Twitter that he's developed mild symptoms of the Coronavirus, and took the test on the advice of the chief medical officer. Johnson is working from home.