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Neftali Dubon, a truck driver at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, says he needs at least five or six runs a day to make a living. By mid-March he was doing just one or two.

Growing up in San Francisco in the '70s, Alia Volz's family ran a booming weed-laced brownie business. "I had this understanding of my family as an outlaw family from the very beginning," she says.

Bryce Canyon National Park is closed due to the coronavirus. But ranger Peter Densmore says the park is still alive with the sounds of spring, even without the hum of hikers and tourists.

Health care workers are working relentlessly to save Americans from the coronavirus, putting themselves at risk. Kansas City nurses mourn a colleague's death and call for better protection.

Right-wing populists in Italy are battling more liberal politicians who want to give work permits to undocumented immigrants, who could fill seasonal labor shortages in the agriculture sector.

A Saudi Arabian investment fund wants to buy an English soccer club, Newcastle United. Some fans have welcomed the move — but human rights groups want it stopped.

The coronavirus has hit the black community hard. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Rev. Marshall Hatch of Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago about existing inequalities the pandemic has exposed.

Statistics show that older Americans are especially vulnerable to the coronavirus. LaTrenda Lee Jefferson remembers her grandfather and his brother, who both succumbed to COVID-19 a week apart.

In this lockdown, low-wage workers have been publicly declared "essential" — up there with doctors and nurses. But the workers say their pay, benefits and protections don't reflect it.

India's decision came on Monday amid accuracy concerns surrounding the kits. It's the latest irritant in a relationship that's come under increasing strain over the coronavirus.