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A critically ill girl got to see her dad, thanks to an office worker who stayed late

Daniel Willingham was on the road when his wife called that their hospitalized child. A young man gave up his evening so that he could get his passport to be with his sick daughter a little sooner.

A panel of judges at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans issued a ruling blocking telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone.

With legal briefs in, Supreme Court weighs telehealth access for the abortion pill

After an appeals court tried to end telemedicine access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in a medication abortion, the Supreme Court stepped in. Here's what's happened and what's to come.

The Senate is on track to overturn a plan to overhaul D.C.'s criminal code

The Senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill to block a D.C. criminal code overhaul. The vote is dividing Democrats on an issue where the party is historically vulnerable with voters.

Sunburned Hand of the Man, 'Mental Egg'

A roiling group drone that builds and decays on a bed of whirling, gurgling guitars, languid percussion swells and fever-dream voices wailing.

Earthquake survivors in southern Turkey struggle with mental health two months later

Two months after the deadly earthquakes in southern Turkey, millions of survivors are coping with the mental health toll of the horrific disaster.

What will it take to fix the broken mental health system in the US?

The chief medical officer of the National Alliance of Medical Illness shares expert guidance on diagnosis, treatment, and recovery from mental illness, with inspiring stories from over 130 people and their caregivers from his new book.

In 'Blue Heron,' filmmaking fills in lost details of a shared past

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sophy Romvari about her first feature-length film, Blue Heron, and the ways memory can change and be changed by time and the artistic process.

A new report finds that the vast majority of criminal cases end in a plea bargain. The American Bar Association says the practice puts efficiency over fairness and leads to innocent people being coerced to plead guilty.

The vast majority of criminal cases end in plea bargains, a new report finds

The practice prioritizes efficiency over fairness and innocence, the American Bar Association says, and leads innocent people to be coerced into guilty pleas.

Sharpton's eulogy for Irvo Otieno calls for change in police mental health response

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with the Rev. Al Sharpton about his time with the family of Irvo Otieno, the 28-year-old man who died in police custody in Virginia.

Lt. Ryan Snyder, who works at the Champaign County jail in Illinois, says it's hard for any such facility to provide the kind of one-on-one mental health treatment many inmates need.

County Jails Struggle To Treat Mentally Ill Inmates

Getting mental health treatment to inmates who need it requires money and unprecedented collaboration between state and county departments of criminal justice and social services. Is it working?

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) speaks during a campaign rally at Minden-Tahoe Airport on Saturday in Minden, Nevada.

Alabama Sen. Tuberville equates descendants of enslaved people to criminals

Tuberville spoke at a pro-Trump rally in Nevada on Saturday ahead of the November midterm elections. The NAACP called the comments "flat out racist, ignorant and utterly sickening."

Ukrainian infantry soldiers go through training exercises at a military camp outside Dnipro, Ukraine, on Oct. 24. Official "morale officers" watch over the soldiers, keeping them focused on the fight, addressing any problems quickly and not letting them fester inside, which can be dangerous on the battlefield.

Exhausted Ukrainian soldiers fight mental fatigue as the war drags on

Commanders say Ukrainian forces' motivation and spirit are the most important weapons in the fight to protect their nation. They are turning to official "morale officers" and psychologists to help.

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