Pressed repeatedly by the Poles for an honest accounting, even Mikhail Gorbachev would provide only a partial admission based on “newly discovered evidence” that had been there all along.

The glass sphere that Christ holds in one hand may well prove the clinching evidence that a recently cleaned painting is a newly discovered work by none other than Leonardo da Vinci.

The spokeswoman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Lara Uselding, said the utility has not found evidence that the newly discovered fault line would pose a risk to the plant.