On the TED Radio Hour podcast, psychologist and teen expert Lisa DeMore says that despite all the scary statistics about kids and their mental health, are kids okay?

Yeah. And in some ways, actually, I would say many ways, so much better than we ever were.

How teens are coping with today's stressors and how adults can better support them.

Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your

podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. President Trump's nominee to fill a

vacancy on the Federal Reserve says he doesn't plan to leave his position as chair of the White

House Council of Economic Advisors if he gets the job.

At his Senate Banking Confirmation hearing, Stephen Myron says there's precedent for his decision.

I have received advice from counsel that what is required is an unpaid leave of absence from the

Council of Economic Advisors. And so considering the term for which I'm being nominated is a little bit more than four months.

That is what I will be taking.

But Democratic Senator Jack Reed, a member of the committee, slammed the idea.

You're going to be an employee in the president of the United States on Lee.

So he can call you up in his capacity as the president said, here, I want you to do this, this, and this.

Well, I guess I have to do it since I'm an employee of the president.

That is absolutely ridiculous.

Trump nominated Myron last month to finish out the term of former Fed Governor, Adriana Coogler's 14-year term, which ends in January.

Two former top officials at the National Institutes of Health

have filed a whistleblower complaint, charging the Trump administration retaliated against them

for resisting attempts to undermine vaccines and other scientific research. MPR's Rob Stein has more.

The former director of the NIH's National Institute of

Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Jean Marazzo, filed the complaint, along with the former

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