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Most outgoing presidents spend their last weeks in office celebrating their record, but not President Trump. Instead, President-elect Joe Biden held his own kind of year-end press conference.

Updated at 10am on Thursday March 19, 2020 Officials at Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals are revising how people can use their coronavirus drive-thru testing services. The two health systems partnered to offer drive-thru testing at two locations, one near the clinic’s main campus at the W.O. Walker Center, 10524 Euclid Ave, in Cleveland, and the other at the UH Landerbrook Health Center in Mayfield Heights.

Scott Pruitt is out as head of Environmental Protection Agency after a string of scandals. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Christine Todd Whitman, former EPA head under President George W. Bush.

W. Joseph Astarita was part of a team that was trying to capture leaders of the militia that launched the 41-day occupation in Oregon. Prosecutors say he fired his weapon but said he hadn't.

We recap the week in politics, including multiple services for the late Sen. John McCain.

The G20 summit in Argentina wraps up on Saturday. World leaders addressed trade disputes and also paid tribute to former President George H.W. Bush.

The long history of presidential pardons includes multiple controversies, including by George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. NPR's Audie Cornish goes through the history with law professor Mark Osler.

Police have identified 38-year-old Jarrod W. Ramos as the man they say gunned down five people at the offices of theCapital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday.

Thirty-three years after a break-in at the Watergate hotel, one more mystery is solved. The Washington Post has confirmed that former FBI official W. Mark Felt was Deep Throat, a confidential source who guided the newspaper's coverage of the scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. The Post's David Von Drehle interviewed Bob Woodward, who held secret meetings with Felt, and discusses the unmasking of Deep Throat.

The universe is shaped like a vuvuzela. Humans and elephants are the only animals with chins. These, and a trove of other factoids have been compiled in 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off — a book by the creators of the hit British television show QI.