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Teruyuki Okazaki, a famous Shotokan karate master and the founder of the International Shotokan Karate Federation, died of a suspected case of COVID-19 last month.

The IRS system for distributing Coronavirus relief payments is susceptible to fraud, because the payments of some Americans can be obtained with information easily available to criminals online.

Bankers tell NPR that the SBA's portal wouldn't allow them to enter the loan application information that is needed to access the PPP program.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and Dr. Lucy McBride, a physician in Washington, D.C., about the challenges of ending isolation and returning to work.

Some 700 million of the world's most vulnerable people will require food assistance, according to the U.N. humanitarian office, which is asking wealthy nations to commit $90 billion in aid.

Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe assured the Senate Intelligence Committee that, if confirmed, he would not apply a partisan filter to reporting or shade conclusions to please the president.

Some 53,000 of the Social Security Administration's employees are working from home. And the agency's backlog of pending cases has fallen by 11% since March 23.

White House rejects government report projecting rising COVID-19 death toll. Some California stores will reopen as early as Friday. And, Venezuela's president says U.S. sent men to assassinate him.

Christopher Mores is among those trying to unlock secrets of the novel coronavirus. He spends 14-hour days with his team throwing everything they have at this pathogen, looking for ways to defeat it.

Colleges have been careful to leave the door open on their plans for the fall semester. Most experts say it will be anything but normal. Here's a sampling of how it could look.