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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jeff Donofrio, director of Michigan's Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, on unemployment in his state due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The World Health Organization and other experts say there's no real evidence that taking ibuprofen for COVID-19 symptoms has negative effects. But for fever, Tylenol is often recommended first.

People across the United States chime in on finding ways to keep kids entertained during the coronavirus shutdown.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Mimi Tsankov of the National Association of Immigration Judges about the state of immigration courts across the country amid the coronavirus crisis.

Medical staff in Hong Kong are threatening to walk off the job if the city doesn't close its border with China over the new coronavirus outbreak.

Interest in running the New York City Marathon far outnumbers available slots. Yet the organization behind the race has devised a system that, overall, keeps people from being upset at not making it.

President Trump's Senate impeachment trial appears to be drawing to a close, with the Republican-majority body expected to vote no on additional witnesses.

Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. An NPR national correspondent remembers covering that act of terrorism — and how it changed the city and the country.

President Trump continues to falsely state that everyone who needs a COVID-19 test can get one. Health care providers and those who have been possibly sickened by the disease tell a different story.

During the flu epidemic of 1918, the town of Gunnison, Colo. shut itself off from the world. Today, Gunnison County has been hit hard by the coronavirus, and is asking outsiders to stay away again.