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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Maine Gov. Janet Mills about the effects of the coronavirus outbreak in her state, including the surge in people filing for unemployment benefits.

The coronavirus pandemic — and the resulting shutdown — have now eliminated at least 22 million American jobs. NPR correspondents relay the latest on the United States response.

"Vaccines for all, especially for the most vulnerable and needy of all regions of the planet," Pope Francis said at the Vatican on a subdued Christmas Day.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the $2,000 relief checks have "no realistic path" in the Senate on their own. He has tied them to other provisions that Democrats blast as partisan.

A wildfire destroyed historic cabins in the Angeles National Forest in September. For some families, these homes were their ties to the past.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with the Rev. Howard-John Wesley of the historic Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., about his sabbatical, which coincided with the beginning of the pandemic.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Tracy Gordon, a senior fellow with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, about how the pandemic continues to affect local government funding.

Behind schedule and struggling to fix irregularities in the count, the Census Bureau is working toward Jan. 9 as the next date in the process for releasing results, a bureau employee tells NPR.

In an interview with NPR's Morning Edition, Jen Psaki promises to restore the tradition of holding daily White House press briefings and to be "as fact-based as I can be."

With many more people voting by mail this fall, election officials feared that millions of ballots would be rejected in the general election. Instead, rejection rates went down across the country.

If you feel daunted by the responsibility of shepherding a child through difficult times, don't feel alone: "I'm afraid of those moments as a parent, too," says picture book author Matt de la Peña.

As patients continue to fill hospitals across the nation, a Minnesota nurse is using poetry writing as a way to cope.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nsé Ufot of the New Georgia Project about how the group is reaching voters during the state's highly anticipated Senate runoff election.

The drugmakers will add an additional 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to the number that they are already supplying the government. They expect to deliver all the doses by July 31.

U.K. and European Union officials continue negotiating a trade deal before the Brexit transition period ends on Dec. 31. NPR updates the latest efforts to secure the deal before Christmas.

NPR looks at what children and their families are missing without in-person schooling and how schools are losing some of their students during the pandemic.

Writer Katherine May describes "wintering" as the times we feel frozen, hopeless cast out — but, she says, embracing that feeling will help us endure it better, and return to the world renewed.

Ken Dornstein talks about how his 2015 documentary led to the recent indictment of Abu Agela Mas'ud as the man suspected of making the bomb that took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

With Christmas around the corner, many Americans tracking their packages find them stuck in the same spot for days. The U.S. Postal Service blames increased volume and the pandemic.

"It's not like we have the Atlantic Ocean to fish in," a French fisherman tells NPR. "Here, we're in the Channel. In an hour and a half, I'm in English waters. If that's off limits, I'm dead."

The federal government reaches an agreement with Pfizer to buy an additional 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. NPR explores what that means for the country's supply in the coming months.

The pandemic has changed the way people worship this year. Holidays spent apart. Services moved to Zoom. Some are motivated to look upward for help, while others are looking inward to find some peace.

Last night, Congress passed a COVID-19 relief package. In it, more than $284 billion will go to the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). It gives loans to small businesses who then use that money to pay their employees. The program's goal is to prevent layoffs for businesses impacted by the pandemic. The program stopped accepting applications in early August, but now, if President Trump signs the COVID-19 aid package, business owners could once again apply for PPP loans.

Back in March, a coronavirus outbreak at St. Joseph's Senior Home in Woodbridge, N.J., led state officials to evacuate all 78 of its residents. Within weeks, nearly half of them were dead.

NPR's Noel King talks Kim Wehle, law professor at the University of Baltimore and author of How to Read the Constitution, about President Trump's pardons or commutations issued to dozens of people.