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  • GOP Rep. Kevin Brady announced on Twitter on Tuesday that he tested positive for the coronavirus. It follows a positive diagnosis for fellow Texan Republican Rep. Kay Granger.
  • College basketball teams have found out who's headed to the Big Dance. Gonzaga took the top overall No. 1 seed on the men's side, while South Carolina took the top seed for the women.
  • By the middle of 2020, the Queens Football League had six teams: the Cats, Ravens, Blue Jays, Valkyries, Black Scorpions and Wolverines. Then the pandemic ground everything to a halt.
  • The FCC has seen the future of cable TV, and it looks like the apps on your smartphone. The agency will vote later this month on a proposal to free consumers from the set-top box.
  • Stubbs gave voice to emotion — to love, to hurt, to desire, to loneliness. Songs like "I Can't Help Myself," "Reach Out, I'll Be There" and "Baby I Need Your Lovin' " made him one of Motown's most recognizable voices. He died Friday in Detroit.
  • Unemployment insurance is at the top of the list for President Obama as Congress returns to Washington, but the big budget battles still loom.
  • Heat is the top weather-related killer in the U.S.
  • Critic Kenneth Turan reviews the new movie Girlfight. The film is "Rocky" with a feminist twist -- the story of a troubled teen coming of age in a seedy Brooklyn gym. The movie garnered top awards at the Sundance Film Festival.
  • NPR's Howard Berkes reports five contenders are vying to replace International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is stepping down after two tumultuous decades at the top.
  • Al's Magic Shop, a Washington, D.C., institution for several decades, is closing shop. Proprieter Al Cohen is revered by the world's top magicians as the greatest demonstrator of magic tricks alive.
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