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Frustrated protesters have been rallying, demanding that governors reopen state economies. Health officials worry that a premature opening could make economic and health problems even worse.

At political events held by the Trump campaign this week, people may have come into contact with the coronavirus. NPR discusses whether contact tracing could possibly be done.

The White House has unveiled a proposal that aims to eliminate the federal deficit within a decade. It calls for significant cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, and it assumes robust economic growth.

We look at the latest on the investigation into the shooting at former president Donald Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The federal government announced a settlement with Marathon Oil for alleged air quality violations at the company's oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

Beryl is bringing heavy rains and flooding to Texas on Monday. The long-lived tropical system first walloped the Windward Islands, Jamaica, and Mexico before threatening the United States.

The biggest losses to wildfires this year have been on prairies, and not in forests. Nearly half of all land burned in the U.S. has been in cattle country extending from Texas to Oregon.

Alaska Airlines grounded all of its Boeing 737-9 aircraft, hours after a window on one such plane blew out midair and forced an emergency landing in Oregon. The airline said the plane landed safely.

In fiction, Robert Harris explores a financial crash and Jennifer DuBois recounts a fateful meeting. In nonfiction, Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze how the U.S. lags, Tony Horwitz looks at abolitionist John Brown and Adam Gopnik considers the meaning of food.

A summer program at Johns Hopkins University puts high schoolers' ingenuity to the test — building bridges out of nothing but spaghetti and glue.