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Arizona is now one of the worst COVID-19 hot spots in the Unites States. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego about how her city is managing the outbreak.

Georgia's governor has declared a state of emergency and called up the National Guard. It follows weeks of violent crime and property destruction in Atlanta. Thirty people were shot last weekend.

In Miami, local officials have ordered a rollback of some reopening measures because of the region's soaring coronavirus cases. Gyms have to close and in-person dining at restaurants is prohibited.

Arizona is facing one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the U.S., with the highest ever testing positivity rates. Massachusetts has driven infection rates down and could offer some lessons.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., about her vow to hold up military promotions until Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified during impeachment hearings, gets his.

NPR's David Greene talks to NPR's Allison Aubrey and Jeff Collier, mayor of Dauphin Island, a narrow strip of beach in Alabama's Mobile County, about efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Instead of running a coronavirus test on every specimen, a lab combines multiple samples. If the batch is negative, then everyone is in the clear. A positive leads to a second round of testing.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with three teachers — Maxie Hollingsworth, Mariah Najmuddin and Karen Lloyd — to hear how they're thinking about schools reopening amid a global pandemic.

The president has focused on the economy and the culture wars, but these days he says little about the pandemic that has killed 130,000 Americans.

Melissa Lynn Kelly owns a bar in Longview, Texas. Kelly and other bar owners are suing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott after he closed bars across the state to curb the recent surge of COVID-19 cases.