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President Trump is known for wielding fear as a political weapon. But on the coronavirus, he says he wanted to "play it down."

Students, parents and teachers often argue that American students take too many standardized tests — but how many do they really take? A visit to one high school in Rockville, Md., offers an answer.

In Western Pennsylvania, fair food vendors serve up the funnel cakes outside the fair grounds.

The tennis great has bowed out of the U.S. Open this year because of knee surgery.

In Game 6 at the Warriors' Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., the Raptors pulled out a 114-110 win in a heart-stopping game that is destined to become an NBA classic.

The state was the last one to include the Confederate battle emblem on its flag. Reuben Anderson, chair of the redesign commission, discusses the proposals and what the change means for Mississippi.

The only road to Minnesota's Northwest Angle is cut off because of Canada's closed border, threatening the area's only industry: fishing resorts. One man hopes to save the day with a water highway.

Flight attendants, pilots and other airline employees hope a deadlocked Congress will agree to extend a federal payroll relief program and prevent mass layoffs.

As the holidays approach, NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro checks in on the city of El Paso post-Walmart shooting with local historian David Dorado Romo.

The government is expected to issue its first water shortage declaration for the river, which supplies more than 40 million people. That will mean hardships for farms, recreation and Indian tribes.