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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with infectious disease specialist Dr. Celine Gounder about the evolving guidance around COVID and the tools we have to fight it.

President Biden is scheduled to speak at 12:15 p.m. on Friday, April 8.

Radio Diaries and All Things Considered continue their multi-part radio tribute to jobs that are slowly disappearing, celebrating people who keep alive an older way of life. This week, a profile of Selma Koch, one of the last old-style bra fitters. Her shop's motto? "We know your size."

David Person reports on the origins of the song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing". Written in 1900, the song is now called the Black National Anthem. This story is part of the ongoing series, Present at the Creation.

A six-part NPR News series on changing attitudes toward immigration in the wake of Sept. 11 continues. On Morning Edition, Eric Westervelt reports on the relationship between the INS and local police.

Attorney General Merrick Garland says the United States is assisting efforts to examine potential war crimes in Ukraine as evidence of violence against civilians mounts.

Liane Hansen speaks with composer John Morton, whose new CD, Outlier features new music for music boxes (on Innova Recordings, available at www.innovarecordings.com). Morton has modified the mechanisms and run the sound through electronic processing, and works with other musicians who play traditional instruments on the CD. John Morton demonstrates his boxes for us in NPR's Studio 4A.

Singer-songwriter Sally Taylor talks about her song "Victim." Sally Taylor has followed the profession of her parents, James Taylor and Carly Simon, and she's now released her third CD. It's called Shotgun.

In theory, a beer poured at nearly 12,000 feet above sea level would have quite a head on it -- far more foam than at sea level. Intrepid NPR science reporter Joe Palca offers a Morning Edition report on the results of an experiment that began in the Andes Mountains and concluded in Washington, D.C.

Former USS California radioman Arthur "Bud" Montagne, father of NPR's Renee Montagne, is among the Pearl Harbor veterans gathered in Honolulu for the 60th anniversary of the surprise attack.