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Using the COVID-19 pandemic to score political points is dangerous and will result in "many more body bags," the WHO's leader said less than a day after President Trump criticized the organization.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is ending his presidential bid, leaving former Vice President Joe Biden victorious in the Democratic primary.

NPR politics, science and national correspondents relay the latest news on the response in the United States to the coronavirus epidemic.

Millions of people in Africa are at high risk for COVID-19 and lack reliable access to doctors or medical equipment. Health officials are focusing on preventing the spread of the disease.

County executives across the United States are worried about budget problems as the coronavirus pandemic deepens. As more people request help, government leaders struggle with how to pay for it.

President Trump and congressional Democrats are haggling over the size of the next bill designed to help Americans through the crisis.

Zimbabwe's economy and health care system collapsed long before the coronavirus hit. The current lockdown has dealt the country yet one more blow.

More than 100 prisoners at Monroe Correctional Complex's minimum-security unit set off fire extinguishers in protest after six fellow inmates were diagnosed with COVID-19 in recent days.

Some health care workers say they're exhausted and burning out from the stress of treating a stream of critically ill patients in an increasingly overstretched health care system.

In a country that consumes 10 billion baguettes every year, "If the bakeries started closing, people would be unnerved," says Paris baker Tony Doré. His boulangerie now stays open seven days a week.