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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan about the city's response to the coronavirus. The Seattle area is one of the hotspots for COVID-19 in the U.S.

Sports leagues are scrambling to figure out how to deal with the coronavirus. Some officials are canceling events and prohibiting fans from watching, while other games are proceeding as normal.

J.C. Penney began 2020 with hopes of yet another turnaround. Instead, the coronavirus shutdowns across the country have forced the department store and mall mainstay into bankruptcy.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai called Sinclair's conduct "completely unacceptable" in pursuing Tribune Media. Sinclair has close ties to the Trump administration but received a record $48 million fine.

U.S. employers shed a record number of jobs in April, as the unemployment rate climbed to the highest since the Great Depression. The coronavirus crisis has locked down much of the economy.

Businesses are rethinking their ad campaigns to avoid sounding tone-deaf during the current crisis. AdWeek's T.L. Stanley speaks with NPR's Ailsa Chang on how companies are changing their messaging.

About a quarter of Arizona's teaching positions are unfilled, and more than half of working teachers don't hold teaching certificates. Educators are skeptical of the governor's plans for a fix.

Mumbai is a cacophony of honking horns loud enough to damage hearing. Last year, police installed a decibel meter at a busy intersection: Only when honking died down would traffic lights turn green.

The high coronavirus infection rate means Navajo Nation schools are closed. But online learning is impossible for many who lack electricity and can't access the Internet.

Rural hospitals already walk a scalpel's edge between solvency and collapse. The coronavirus outbreak threatens to push many of them over the brink.