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"We now know that the virus is actively spreading in some communities here in Washington," a state official said, after four more people in the Seattle area died after contracting COVID-19.

For the first time in U.S. history, the federal government is trying to count most households through the Internet for the once-a-decade census, but the rollout has been fraught with risks.

Unlike postcard mountain resort towns, or Denver's booming, high-tech corridor, Pueblo is Colorado's faded industrial relic. But it's finding ways to grow into its next chapter.

More labs will soon have the ability to test sick people for the novel coronavirus, and experts say they'll finally have more of a sense of how it's spreading through communities in the U.S.

Amy Vames of Highland Park, N.J., plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Leila Fadel.

President Trump used to boast about stock market gains at every turn. But after coronavirus fears caused the worst plunge since 2008, he has gone silent on this pillar of his reelection pitch.

Meet Panos Triantafyllou as he trains in Athens for this year's Paralympics, and Faidros Panagopoulos, the man behind a Greek company for custom-built wheelchairs.

States including California increasingly rely on mail-in ballots that often take longer to count. In Texas, voters will be using brand-new equipment. So a delay does not necessarily mean trouble.

The former U.S. attorney general is making a play for his old Senate seat in Alabama, and despite his public falling out with the president tells voters there, "I've been with him from the start."

The biggest day of the primary season began in the mid-to-late 1980s when Southern Democrats pushed their states to move up to try to stop whom they saw as liberal candidates who couldn't win.