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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Oregon Gov. Kate Brown about how her state is prepping for possible communal spread of the novel coronavirus.

Jack Welch, one of the United States' best-known CEOs, has died. Welch ran General Electric for two decades and built the company into one of the world's most valuable corporations. He was 84.

It's the first time since July that the state has been fire-free. "That's more than 240 days of fire activity" across the country's most populous state, New South Wales Rural Fire Service said.

"We have never before seen a respiratory pathogen that is capable of community transmission but which can also be contained with the right measures," the WHO's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

Cases of the new coronavirus are appearing in many U.S. states, with over a thousand confirmed to date. Here's where they are.

Democrats are cheering many of the reforms approved by the legislature this year, but as the clock ticks down on the current session some are bitterly…

Parts of the 11-story building survived an implosion. It took two weeks and many blows from a 5,600 pound wrecking ball, but the former tower is now a pile of debris.

The tornado struck in Tennessee in the middle of the night — there are several confirmed deaths and many more are injured. Authorities are still trying to map out the full scope of the damage.

Schools in the Puget Sound region of Washington state are taking a number of precautions given the coronavirus outbreak there. Some are closing; others are disinfecting buildings.

Fourteen states hold contests on Super Tuesday, with about a third of all delegates for the Democratic presidential nomination at stake. Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg are the latest to drop out.