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The House approved rules changes allowing members to vote via proxy in event they cannot travel. They also created rules for remote hearings and legislative action. Republican were opposed.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who introduced the Emmett Till Antilynching Act in the House in February, about the Act and the Arbery case.

This spring, congregations are reimagining how to celebrate bar and bat mitzvahs in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of these Jewish coming of age ceremonies are going online.

In a decree issued Saturday, officials said they would once more allow travelers to and from the country beginning June 3. The announcement marks a major step in the hard-hit country's reopening plan.

Kabuga had eluded capture for about a quarter-century, despite an international effort seeking to bring him to justice for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He was arrested in France on Saturday.

"This pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing," Obama told students from historically black colleges and universities.

A pediatric cardiologist working at a hospital in the Bronx reflects on treating adults after part of the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center was converted to an adult COVID-19 unit.

There is growing economic pressure to reopen national parks and ease travel restrictions even as many states are still seeing a rise in coronavirus cases.

Summer camps are mulling their options for keeping kids and counselors safe amid the coronavirus crisis — or whether it's just not possible.

For many young people, going to college allows them to finally express their sexual orientation or gender identity. Now with schools closed, many are suffering with families that don't accept them.