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NPR political correspondents recap the battle between state governors and President Trump on lifting social distancing measures and effectively re-opening the United States for business.

Boeing's airplane plants are closed. Idled employees don't know when or if they'll return to work. The aerospace giant is weighing a request for federal aid as it also considers downsizing and layoffs

"There's no light switch here. It's more like a dimmer," Gavin Newsom said Tuesday. "That dimmer is this toggling back and forth between more restrictive and less restrictive measures."

Smithfield Foods didn't want to stop slaughtering hogs at its Sioux Falls pork plant, even after hundreds of workers got sick with the coronavirus. Then the city's mayor forced the company's hand.

Some scientists and researchers are forced to decide the fates of their study subjects — like spiders, sunflower plants and fish — amid the coronavirus lockdown.

Texas regulators have not capped production since 1973, but some smaller producers want such a move to try and stave off bankruptcy. Oil demand and prices have crashed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The president has been sharply critical of the World Health Organization. "As the organization's leading sponsor, the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability," he said Tuesday.

A video showing a long line of Marines, standing close together while waiting for haircuts, has sparked questions about what's more important: military discipline or social distancing?

An NPR science editor and Donald Schaffner, a professor of food microbiology, walk listeners through what they should be doing to stay safe while grocery shopping and after bringing food home.

The U.S. Public Health Service has won congressional authorization for a ready reserve of doctors and nurses to deploy across the country.