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NPR Music staffers Marissa Lorusso and Tom Huizenga give out superlatives for the best moments in music this past year, including a single breath of operatic singing and an epic guitar solo.

Many artifacts of the Museum of Chinese in America were feared to be destroyed in a recent fire. After searching through rubble, more may be salvageable than previously thought.

Some states are reopening, while others have reversed course, as protests for racial justice continue across America. We check in around the country.

Philadelphia is becoming the next big city to stop collecting fines for overdue books at its public libraries. The hope is that the new policy will drive an uptick in daily visitors.

In the third episode of Play It Forward, Ari Shapiro interviews Robin Dann of the Canadian band, Bernice. She talks about redefining success and how the freedom of jazz informs her music.

Huntington Beach and Dana Point city council members both voted Thursday night to pursue legal challenges against the state's beach-closure order.

Updated: 3:55 p.m., Friday, March 20, 2020 A Lucas County man has died of the coronavirus, the first in Ohio to lose his life to the global pandemic, Gov. Mike DeWine announced at a Friday afternoon news conference. The announcement comes as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ohio rises to 169, with 39 hospitalizations. DeWine described the man, Mark Wagoner Sr., as a well-liked and respected Toledo attorney who was prominent in the state Republican Party.

In a poor neighborhood in Islamabad, houses are right up against each other, families may live 10 or more in a single room and streets are narrow and crowded.

What does it take to make an effective vaccine quickly? Why are testing kits so hard to find? What makes this coronavirus so virulent? We’ll dig deep into the science you need to know.

Public health officials need public buy-in to manage infectious disease outbreaks. Historians suggest that past epidemics have lessons — but also say the politics of coronavirus is unprecedented.