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At least 100 Guatemalans infected with the coronavirus were deported from the U.S. from mid-March through mid-April. And advocates say Mexico has not been testing Central American deportees.

Updated on May 19, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. A new peer-reviewed study examined whether a short cycle of steam treatment using a kitchen rice cooker can decontaminate face masks. The study’s authors — from Case Western Reserve University and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center — found steam treatment is more effective than dry heat or an ultraviolet light treatment at cleaning cloth masks, surgical masks and N95 respirators.

The group, mostly women and children, had been stranded at sea for weeks. Human rights groups have long decried the government's plan to send refugees to flood- and cyclone-prone Bhasan Char island.

What should the Strategic National Stockpile be used for? We talk with the man who was once in charge of the whole thing.

Spurred by the concerns of members in China, Columbia University's alumni associations raised more than $1 million to buy desperately needed masks and other gear.

Ohio has gotten all that it’s likely to get from the National Strategic Stockpile of medical supplies – a plane dropped off gowns, gloves, coveralls,...

The Summit County Emergency Management Agency and its counterparts in all Ohio counties are asking for donations . They need personal protective medical...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has pushed for changes to a bipartisan anti-lynching bill sparking a debate in Senate. Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif., pushed back at his objections.

We don't always behave the way economic models say we will. We don't save enough for retirement. We give money to charity. This week, why we act in ways that go against our "rational" self-interest.

NPR listeners tell us what it's like when they've sent their last or only child off to college and they become empty nesters.