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NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Savannah Mayor Van Johnson about his response to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's executive order banning cities and counties from issuing mask ordinances.

Front-line workers in several U.S. cities walked off their jobs and took to the streets to demand racial and economic justice.

Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday dismissed the idea of another statewide shutdown, even as Ohio sees its highest-ever surge of coronavirus cases – surpassing…

Experimental medicines have the potential to help people with COVID-19 avoid hospitalization. The scarce supply of the treatments would have to be rationed, if regulators OK their use.

President Trump's immigration policies are on the line and many are hoping Joe Biden will follow through on pledges to help immigrants and asylum-seekers if he wins the election.

President Trump promised to end America's opioid crisis. On his watch overdose deaths flattened in 2018 then surged again to record levels.

President Trump visited Kenosha after the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Residents lament the violence that left swaths of the city damaged, but understand the wide racial inequities that led to it.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with David M. Friedman, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, about the new U.S.-brokered diplomatic agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

Governor Andy Beshear has mandated Kentuckians wear masks in public, as coronavirus infections surge around the state and country.

Activists from Milwaukee will arrive today after traveling to the March On Washington on foot. Their arrival coincides with the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.