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Thousands of nurses in Minnesota walked off the job Monday to protest being understaffed and overworked. The nurses are demanding among other things higher wages.

The WHO declared a pandemic. The NBA shut down its season. President Trump banned travel from Europe. Tom Hanks tested positive. On one day a year ago, the coronavirus became very real in America.

Author Adam Brent Houghtaling has put together an encyclopedia of the best music to pair with melancholy moments.

Donatella Lorch, a freelance journalist in Kathmandu, gives NPR's Arun Rath an update on the effects of Saturday's devastating quake. She says people are taking it "hour by hour and day by day."

Britons are casting ballots in a referendum on whether the U.K. should leave the European Union. A vote to leave would have profound political and economic consequences for Great Britain and the EU.

Demonstrators in France rallied against the government's proposed change to unemployment benefits, while police and protesters clashed in Germany and Turkey.

Some people work four days a week instead of the traditional five. In recent years, some small school districts in the western U.S. have adopted the same approach as a way to save money. Andrea Dukakis reports.

A jury heard testimony from two FBI agents as the prosecution unveiled evidence on the second day of trial for Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign chairman.

President Trump is escalating his attacks on Democrats, immigrants and the media, despite calls to tone down the rhetoric. David Greene speaks with Jonah Goldberg of National Review.

Congress made it an official day in 1964. Now it's a worldwide event — with special meaning in the developing world.