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The Silicon Valley company, Moon Express, is now a finalist in the $30 million Google Lunar Xprize competition. The company will attempt to place a spacecraft on the moon that could travel on its surface and transmit high definition images. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Naveen Jain, one of the founders of Moon Express, about the competition and the future of private space exploration and research.

Phyllis Joffe reports on the Fund for New American Plays, as it celebrates its 10th anniversary season. The Fund was established by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and American Express, to encourage the creation of new American plays. At a time when alternatives to federal funding for the arts are increasingly in demand, the Fund was instrumental in getting such works off the ground as "The Kentucky Cycle," "The Heidi Chronicles," "Angels in America," and David Henry Hwang's "Golden Child," now at the Kennedy Center.

The companies are asking customers to throw away the potentially affected products immediately.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Kentucky got health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, but the state is also home to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who's led efforts to kill the law. With the failure of the latest GOP attempt to replace the ACA, the state's voters weigh in.

The hearing included numerous former officials from the Trump White House, a former spokesperson for the extremist group the Oath Keepers, and a man who stormed the Capitol.

Every brake screech, whistle and rattle from the movie The Polar Express came from recordings of a historic locomotive, the Pere Marquette 1225. After four years of costly repairs, passengers can once again jump onboard and travel to see Santa Claus at the North Pole (imagination required).

Under this new screening process, migrants who enter the country illegally will be screened by asylum officers while under the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Black cowboys in rural Louisiana spend their weekends trail riding with family and friends to celebrate tradition and culture.

Georgia looms large in politics — both in the ongoing Jan. 6 committee's work, and in upcoming elections.

President Biden defended controversial remarks in which he appeared to call for regime change in Russia. "I was expressing the moral outrage that I feel, and I make no apologies for it," he said.