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Many musicians canceled tours and delayed album releases due to the pandemic. But some are now using home recording setups and streaming services to write and publish songs about the coronavirus.

The iconic vessel was intended to provide overflow capacity to the New York metropolitan area but ultimately wasn't needed as badly as first feared.

There will be restrictions, including no practices and no more than four players at a facility at one time.

President Trump will invoke the Defense Production Act to ensure plants keep running. Workers have said they need more protection after illnesses and deaths on the line.

Right-wing populists in Italy are battling more liberal politicians who want to give work permits to undocumented immigrants, who could fill seasonal labor shortages in the agriculture sector.

New York is among the biggest coronavirus hotspots in the U.S. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jean Randolph-Castro, the president of a Queens housing co-op, about the toll it has taken on her neighbors.

Americans have already started receiving their federal relief checks. And for those thinking that there are people who need this money much more, there are various ways to donate the cash.

One way to speed up the testing of a new vaccine is to deliberately expose volunteers to the coronavirus and see if they develop immunity. But the practice raises ethical questions among medics.

Statistics show that older Americans are especially vulnerable to the coronavirus. LaTrenda Lee Jefferson remembers her grandfather and his brother, who both succumbed to COVID-19 a week apart.

COVID-19 can cause a person's blood to thicken, doctors say. This manifestation of the infection may be causing strokes and other circulatory problems in patients whose symptoms are mild otherwise.

NPR science and business correspondents talk about the protection of the workers — those working now, and those who will start soon, in a variety of industries.

Will the masks of El Santo and the Blue Demon protect people from the coronavirus? Mexico's professional wrestlers hope so. They are now sewing face masks for the public.

The coronavirus has hit the black community hard. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Rev. Marshall Hatch of Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago about existing inequalities the pandemic has exposed.

A Saudi Arabian investment fund wants to buy an English soccer club, Newcastle United. Some fans have welcomed the move — but human rights groups want it stopped.

Governments worldwide are tracing people with COVID-19 to stop the spread of the virus. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker about the state's contact tracing efforts.

Health care workers are working relentlessly to save Americans from the coronavirus, putting themselves at risk. Kansas City nurses mourn a colleague's death and call for better protection.

Bryce Canyon National Park is closed due to the coronavirus. But ranger Peter Densmore says the park is still alive with the sounds of spring, even without the hum of hikers and tourists.

To get better data this week on a hard-hit community, the public health department and researchers are offering free testing for everyone over age 4 in a broad swath of the Mission District.

In this lockdown, low-wage workers have been publicly declared "essential" — up there with doctors and nurses. But the workers say their pay, benefits and protections don't reflect it.

The 2016 Democratic nominee for president endorsed Biden in the November face-off against President Trump during a live stream event on Tuesday.

AirBnb CEO Brian Chesky tells NPR that he expects his company to survive the coronavirus pandemic by increasing its emphasis on cleanliness, and acknowledging that travel is likely changed forever.

India's decision came on Monday amid accuracy concerns surrounding the kits. It's the latest irritant in a relationship that's come under increasing strain over the coronavirus.

"She tried to do her job and it killed her," Dr. Lorna Breen's father said of the 49-year-old doctor, who also contracted the coronavirus. His daughter was a hero, Breen says.

The House Majority Leader initially told House Democrats the chamber would convene next week but reversed course. A bipartisan task force is looking at options for remote voting and committee work.

Despite a partisan divide over increasing absentee voting, about half of all Republicans support universal access to a mail ballot, according a new Pew Research poll.