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Anxiety and depression among teens and youth are getting worse since COVID lockdowns began in March, early studies suggest, and many experts say they fear a corresponding increase in suicide.

NPR's Scott Simon wonders whether the robots are turning on us.

"If somebody needed help — Granny was going. Black and whites alike, it made no difference to her," Mary Othella Burnette says of her late grandmother, a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

Since touching down in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover has already cached 6 samples that could one day be brought back to Earth. Astrobiologists hope they hold signs of past microbial life.

The former Trump adviser faces two counts of contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

In the most recent release, Hamas returned the remains of an Israeli man who died while fighting Hamas in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. He was identified as Lior Rudaeff, who was 61 when he was killed.

Supported by USAID, the Ethiopian clinic provides lifesaving medicine for HIV-positive kids and teens to suppress the virus. First came the 90-day freeze — and now an immediate termination of support.

President Trump has declared multiple national emergencies since taking office. That's helping him act quickly. There are few checks and balances on the emergency powers he's claiming.

The percentage of Christians in the U.S. has dropped dramatically, though that loss may have leveled off in recent years.

NPR's Brian Mann explored one of the easy trails in the Linville Gorge Wilderness in North Carolina.