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President John F. Kennedy makes a nationwide televised broadcast on civil rights in the White House, June 11, 1963. Americans often look to presidents for moral clarity in critical moments.

Fathers Of Our Country: How U.S. Presidents Exercised Moral Leadership In Crisis

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia, about how presidents have exercised moral leadership in critical moments.

National Institutes Of Health Chief Gives Update On The Coronavirus In The U.S.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Francis Collins, the National Institutes of Health director, about the surge in coronavirus cases, the reopening of schools this fall and the race for a vaccine.

U.S. Is Expected To Reach 200,000 COVID-19 Deaths Very Soon

NPR's Noel King talks to Rocky Walker, chaplain at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and Dr. Joseph Varon, chief of critical care at Houston's United Memorial Medical Center, about the pandemic.

"The two most replicated, robust factors linked to suicide are economic change — downturn — and social disconnection," says Dr. Roger McIntyre, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. And both factors, he notes, are major hallmarks of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Act Now To Get Ahead Of A Mental Health Crisis, Specialists Advise U.S.

Suicide rates typically drop during natural disasters and other crises but then spike in the months or years after. So mental health specialists are looking to build psychological resilience now.

Shipping containers like this one could be repurposed for entrepeneuers, which Youngstown City Councilman Julius Oliver says is much cheaper than going into a traditional building.

Morning Headlines: U.S. Senate Narrowly Blocks Ballast Water Bill; Ohio Upholds Death Penalty

Here are your morning headlines for Thursday, April 19: Bill removing federal EPA oversight of ballast water is narrowly blocked in U.S. Senate; Ohio's...

Iryna Merezhko at the Los Angeles pharmacy where she works.

A 14-year-old who fled Ukraine is in U.S. detention. His family doesn't know where.

It's been a week since Ivan arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border and asked immigration agents to let him in on humanitarian grounds. His family still hasn't heard from him.

Students march during the celebration of Ghana's 60 years of independence on March 6 in Accra.

What does independence mean? For a Ghanaian in the U.S., it's doubt, hope ... and soda

He grew up marching to celebrate Ghana's independence and now marvels at America's "mind-blowing" July 4 bash. George Mwinnyaa shares memories and dreams sparked by Independence Day.

The bitter cold gripping the U.S. is blamed for at least 40 deaths, 14 in Tennessee

Temperatures plunged below zero in parts of Tennessee, creating the largest power demand ever for the Tennessee Valley Authority. The icy blast stretches from Oregon to the Northeast.

U.S. Catholics Want Action After Report Details Decades Of Child Sexual Abuse

Rachel Martin talks to John Allen, editor of the Catholic publication Crux, about how Catholics are reconciling their faith with the latest revelations of child sex abuse by clergy.

The lungs of a young woman in her 20s became so damaged by COVID-19 that she could not survive without her blood being oxygenated outside her body on an ECMO machine. She received a double-lung transplant on June 5. In this photo taken before the transplant, the patient is being monitored by the ECMO team at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

1st-Known U.S. Lung Transplant For COVID-19 Patient Performed In Chicago

A young woman in her 20s was healthy before the coronavirus struck her. After two months on a ventilator and ECMO device, her transplanted lungs are now working.

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