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The federal government is weighing whether to urge all Americans to wear masks when they leave their homes. Here's how to make and wear them.

About 2% of people with COVID-19 will need ventilators to help them breathe. Are there enough ventilators, and are there enough doctors and respiratory therapists trained to use them?

Seattle Public Schools are shutting down for at least two weeks. The move is meant to slow the spread of coronavirus but it's also creating child care problems for parents.

There is growing concern about vulnerability to illness in nursing homes after several residents of a nursing facility near Seattle died of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus disease.

Firefighters are attempting to rescue hundreds of people trapped in different areas by a massive wildfire in California. The Creek Fire is almost twice as big as it was Monday.

Voting in Indian Country has long been challenging, often due to lack of official street addresses on reservations. Now the push for mail-in balloting because of COVID-19 is exacerbating the issue.

Most adults who want the vaccine have received it. Now what?

NPR's Noel King talks to Planet Money's Jacob Goldstein about his book, Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. He addresses technology, historic advances, and hustlers who made money what it is.

To slow the coronavirus, colleges are canceling in-person classes and shifting to online only. How do students and faculty adapt, and what gets lost in the shift away from gathering in classes?

More black Americans are moving south, changing the demographics of major metropolitan areas. We look at how these moves are shifting the political landscape.