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The Census Bureau releases the first weekly results from its new survey measuring how the pandemic is affecting households around the U.S.

The U.S. education secretary has told public K-12 schools they should use their coronavirus relief money to help private school students, too.

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Friendly Slytherins; Of Mice and Men and Revenge-yuns

"There was a failure by this organization to obtain the information that the world needed, and that failure cost many lives," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says.

Sweden has employed a controversial coronavirus response strategy of imposing only limited restrictions. The country's ambassador to the U.S. says the approach is having success.

In an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, 50% say they or someone in their household has lost hours or a job due to the pandemic. They also say their governor is doing a better job than the president is.

Streamers and networks like HBO and AppleTV+ are offering access for free during the pandemic lockdown, and old standbys like PBS are revisiting or reinventing offerings.

The Supreme Court has dismissed a gun rights case in New York and ruled in favor of insurance companies seeking compensation for their losses.

The economy contracted in the first quarter of 2020 as the coronavirus began to take its toll and spending dived. It's the first quarterly drop in six years and a likely precursor to a deep recession.

NPR's Noel King talks to David Wessel of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution about problems plaguing congressional efforts to help small businesses during the COVID-19 crisis.