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In the rural Northwest, far-right elected officials and the militia movements they're aligned with are calling for defiance of stay-at-home orders like the one issued by Idaho's Republican governor.

Nelson Schwartz, author of The Velvet Rope Economy, says special privileges for the super-rich are dividing America: "The result is less sympathy, less empathy and a sort of a harder-edge society."

Sanders had long said he'd support whoever won the Democratic nomination. He made it official on Monday.

"I know we will succeed somewhat and we will fail somewhat," says one of the plan's chief architects. "We won't be able to find every single person — but we will hopefully prevent a lot of deaths."

A small team at Johns Hopkins University early on created what's become one of the most authoritative interactive online dashboards, tracking COVID-19 data around the world.

This week Bob continues his account of being a census taker in 1990.Most of our work as census takers was straightforward and unexciting. We visited the…

The coronavirus is pushing people to make a lot of tough choices. Dr. Teena Chopra, an infectious disease expert, weighs in with a doctor's perspective on those choices.

NPR political correspondents recap the battle between state governors and President Trump on lifting social distancing measures and effectively re-opening the United States for business.

The country's election commission said in a statement Monday that it had been forced to postpone the election, originally scheduled for May 17, to July 5 due to the ongoing pandemic.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker about the president's claim that the federal government has the ultimate authority to determine when COVID-19 restrictions should be lifted.