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Texas health officials expect the outbreak to go up from the 90 cases reported on Friday. There's a watch for central Texas, where someone who tested positive visited universities and tourist spots.

The ride-hailing company is cutting 3,700 jobs. It's the latest U.S. tech company to turn to layoffs to deal with fallout from the coronavirus crisis.

The law mandates that TikTok be banned in the United States on Jan. 19, unless Chinese company ByteDance divests itself of ownership. Attorneys for TikTok had challenged the law's constitutionality.

SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus. It averages more than a dozen significant changes every year.

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, the deadliest tick-borne disease in the U.S., is a big problem on tribal lands in the Southwest. A community-led response on Apache lands in Arizona is helping save lives.

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species. New research suggests climate change played a much smaller role than once thought, though not all agree.

A once-fringe movement claims having more babies is the only way to save civilization. NPR reporter Lisa Hagen and sociologist Karen Guzzo explain who's empowering pronatalism today.

With McCormick's victory, Republicans have expanded their Senate majority in the next Congress to 53 seats, with two races still to be called.

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Celia Gregory of Nashville public radio station WNXP to discuss the week's new releases.

Haggard, who died in 2016, spoke to Fresh Air in 1995 about his love of trains. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car. Now that coach is part of the Virginia Scenic Railway.