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Restaurateur and cookbook author Mildred "Mama Dip" Council has died in Chapel Hill at the age of 89. For more than four decades, people have made pilgrimages to her restaurant, Mama Dip's Kitchen, to taste good, simple food and sometimes find surprises on the menu.

This year's MacArthur Fellows — recipients of what's commonly called the Genius Grant — include artists, scientists, dancers and more. They'll each receive a no-strings-attached $625,000 award.

One expert told NPR that the unemployment measure is particularly controversial because it is "using appropriated funds by Congress in ways that Congress might not have intended."

A spokesman says all U.S. troops are accounted for with no injuries. U.S. officials say they oppose Turkey's military incursion into northern Syria.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with author Lauren Michele Jackson about her new book White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation.

As organizers across the country are delaying or scrapping large events due to the coronavirus, Democrats are actively weighing contingency plans for their August convention.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., is seeking reelection and has allied himself with Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to support the state's stay-at-home order even as many Republicans want to see the state reopen.

There is currently no central coordination of the supply of protective garb and masks in U.S. hospital inventories. A CDC project wants hospitals to share that information for the good of all.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to former Department of Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem about chaos at U.S. airports as Americans scramble to return home as the coronavirus worsens.

The House is in recess, but senators return to Washington this week to take up the House-passed financial aid bill to address the economic threat to workers posed by the coronavirus.