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On a Monday morning at Buchtel Middle School in Akron, a group of 7th and 8th grade girls are given small yellow bags as part of a session on improving mental health. In the bag is a smartphone. While many might think most mental health sessions would involve counseling or journaling, this program includes a form of therapy that’s quite fitting for the newest generations: a smartphone app. Rosalynnd McNeal is a 7th grader who says she joined the program to help her deal with stress.

Executives for major tech firms, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, take questions in Congress on Wednesday about their role in Russian interference in the last election.

A bikeshare start-up in Beijing is set on getting China's commuters out of their cars and on two wheels. But even with 7 million bikes in cities in China and the U.S., Mobike has yet to show a profit.

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: No Jacket Required, Salad Soaker and Delivery Kid.

Facebook's celebrity executives — Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg — were not on Capitol Hill yesterday when Congress grilled the company's top lawyer about incendiary Russian ads on the platform. Instead, they were on an earnings call with investors announcing a 79 percent jump in profits, fueled by the company's dominance in online advertising. NPR's Aarti Shahani looks at how advertising is the key to Facebook's success and how that may change following the Russian debacle.

In the days after President Trump fired FBI director James Comey, the White House told the public that the bureau had "lost confidence" in its leader. New e-mails obtained by the Lawfare blog paint a different picture of the reaction inside the FBI. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare's editor-in-chief and a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., a member of the House Freedom Caucus, about the spending bill currently in front of Congress that would increase spending and add to the national deficit.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with journalist Sam Quinones about Purdue Pharma's announcement that it would stop promoting its blockbuster opioid painkiller OxyContin to doctors. Purdue's move comes as it faces dozens of lawsuits.

President Trump held a meeting with students and teachers affected by last week's school shooting in Florida, as well as other prominent massacres.

For many parents at the Olympics, watching their children compete is nerve-wracking. Beth Heiden Reid has a special perspective: she won a bronze medal in speedskating at the 1980 Games, and was in Korea to watch her daughter Joanne compete in biathlon.