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For more than two out of three unemployed workers, jobless benefits exceed their old pay, researchers say. That can raise awkward questions for workers, bosses and policymakers.

Since it's impossible to hold mass public gatherings to mourn those who have died of COVID-19, people are creating new ways to memorialize the dead.

Recordkeeping errors may be to blame for the Roanoke City Health District’s low COVID-19 testing numbers.Roanoke has conducted the fewest tests of any…

A dad in Denver tried to do everything right when COVID-19 symptoms surfaced. But he got a surprising bill from his insurer, which had waived cost sharing for treatment of the coronavirus infection.

"The speed with which this has happened is really devastating," says Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. He warns the outbreak will leave no part of the U.S. untouched.

Almost half of the COVID-19 cases in Montgomery County, Ala., were confirmed in the last 14 days. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed says one problem is people who "have decided that the pandemic is over."

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Phil McAlister, NASA's head of commercial spaceflight development, about the first launch of astronauts aboard a SpaceX spacecraft scheduled for Wednesday.

A white woman has called the cops on a black man in Central Park after he asked her to put her dog on a leash. The story went viral after he posted a video of her reaction online.

Recent floods in Michigan have unleashed a torrent of mud that hit the Midland Center for the Arts. Volunteers have spent all weekend packing wet historical documents into freezers.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Christian Cooper, an avid birder who asked a woman to leash her dog, which led to a verbal altercation he caught on tape.