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The CARES Act offers relief to state and local governments, individuals, small and large businesses, and hospitals affected by the coronavirus crisis.

What became Marvel Comics got its start in 1939 as Timely Publications. It went through many changes — but one constant has been writer Stanley Lieber, better known as Stan Lee.

In his new book, Tomatoland, food writer Barry Estabrook details the life of the mass-produced tomato — and the environmental and human costs of the tomato industry. Today's tomatoes, he says, are bred for shipping and not for taste.

Malaria is the No. 1 killer of children in Africa, and a chronic affliction in adults. As world health organizations prepare to renew a massive antimalarial campaign, a roving band of medics, Doctors Without Borders, brings a state-of-the-art drug therapy to the Niger Delta.

As the shipping industry pushes for more automation at West Coast ports, the powerful union representing dockworkers is fighting back, saying robots will only kill good American jobs.

The World Health Organization has issued an alert about the deaths in the West African nation of Gambia. For context, we speak to the authors of The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to writer and director Cameron Crowe, whose movie, "Almost Famous" is now a musical, and opening in New York next week.

The winners confronted stigma and health equity in some countries with their tech ideas to help LGBTQI+ youth reach out for help and let women access private OB-GYN care.

Photographer Adeolu Osibodu takes you on a journey through space and time as he navigates reality, traversing sky, land and sea.

Vinod Kumar of India and Anish Adhikari of Nepal are among the many migrant workers who helped build the stadiums. Adhikari says he was misled about working conditions. Kumar died on the job.