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U.S. Can Learn From Other Countries About Containing COVID-19

As the U.S. manages the coronavirus, NPR's Rachel Martin talks to three NPR correspondents in some hard-hit countries: China, South Korea and Italy, to ask what lessons the U.S. should learn.

After a highly fraught but largely interference-free election, there are big questions for the future of election security.

With 2020 Called A Success, Big Questions Lie Ahead For Election Security

The interdisciplinary practice combines cybersecurity, intelligence, public awareness and other disciplines — and the coming years will bring more challenges and evolution.

Jacqueline Flores (left) with daughter Nicky at their home in Virginia last month. They are part of the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, a group calling for an end to Title 42 so their family members can seek asylum.

Title 42 Foes Go Back To Court To Try To End COVID Measure Blocking Asylum-Seekers

Immigration advocates had put their lawsuit on hold to give the Biden administration time to phase out the Trump-era Title 42 measure. But they say they're tired of waiting.

"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.

Night Vision

Our world can feel like a very different place under the cover of night. And away from the light pollution at the rural Alva homestead of News-Press…

DeSantis Signs Bill To Protect Against Pandemic-Related Scams

The law stems from people using authentic-looking websites to run scams that purportedly offer access to COVID-19 vaccines or personal protective equipment.

President Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday night.

Fact Check: Trump's Address To The Republican Convention, Annotated

President Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday. NPR reporters provided analysis of his remarks live.

Gov. Ron DeSantis avoided directly answering whether Florida would take advantage of the new policy, which would allow the full costs of testing uninsured adults to be borne by the state Medicaid program.

UF Looks At Testing Students For COVID-19

University of Florida officials on Tuesday said they are considering testing 500 to 1,000 students a day for COVID-19 as the school looks at plans to...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin gestures toward Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell, as they appear before a House Committee on Financial Services hearing on oversight of the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve pandemic response, on Tuesday in Washington.

House Follows Senate In Passing Extension Of COVID-19 Business Loans

The Paycheck Protection Program, part of the $3 trillion pandemic response package passed by Congress in March, has been extended to Aug. 8.

Herta Mueller is the second German-language woman awarded a literature Nobel in the past five years.

Nobel Literature Prize Awarded To Herta Mueller

Herta Mueller, a member of Romania's ethnic German minority who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, began writing as a young intellectual under the regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

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