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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to James Mayger of Bloomberg News about China's economy which shrank 6.8% in the first three months of 2020, compared to a year ago — the biggest drop in nearly 3 decades.

Air travel has rapidly decreased, and Congress has stepped up with assistance: more than $60 billion in aid for airlines, as well as Boeing and some of its critical suppliers.

Jessie Bennett, owner of Cleveland Hardwood Restoration, had just hired two additional full-time staff for her flooring business when the coronavirus crisis hit. They and one other staff member have since been laid off — temporarily, Bennett hopes — due to a large number of jobs being postponed. She's now operating a company that's about half the size it was less than a month ago.

Indian highways are lined with migrant laborers trying to walk hundreds of miles home to their villages. Left without work or transport, they're vulnerable to starvation — and coronavirus infection.

Virtually all higher education classes in Northeast Ohio are being taught remotely through the end of the spring 2020 semester to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But with Gov. Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton pointing to the coronavirus outbreak peaking in early to mid-May, higher education is trying to plan ahead. And college administrators are even looking beyond this semester when it comes to classes and programming.

All K-12 students in Ohio are now staying home from school through May 1 to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Mike DeWine announced at his Monday press conference. Gov. Mike DeWine originally mandated a three-week "extended spring break" that would have extended through April 3 — this Friday.

Some Northeast Ohio artists are looking at the devastating economic blow of the COVID-19 crisis as a time to be creative.

Forecasters trying to anticipate spring flooding use special planes to measure ice and snow. The planes fly low and slow with their gamma ray detectors and other equipment across the country.

A court ruling to go ahead with today’s primary and then an order to shut down all 3,600 polling places caused confusion for many Ohioans – but maybe no...

There are currently no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Ohio, but health officials are preparing for a possible outbreak in the state. Nursing homes, with large senior populations, will likely be ground zero, based on what has happened in other states.