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The "Brave New Workers" series tells stories of Americans adapting to a changing economy. This week: after years working in the coal mines of West Virginia, a miner charts a new career in health care.

Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first African-American woman to be appointed to New York's highest state court, the Court of Appeals, was found dead earlier this month in the Hudson River.

The Supreme Court will decide if an Alabama inmate should have his sentence revisited because his attorney didn't get help from an independent mental health expert when he was sentenced to death.

About 35 million Americans suffer some hearing loss, but most don't do anything about it. There's a growing effort to make hearing aids easier and cheaper to buy.

If confirmed, agriculture secretary nominee Sonny Perdue confronts an industry in search of stability. In the Corn Belt, farmers wonder about the government programs they rely on.

Some packages of hash browns have pieces of golf balls in them. McCain says the golf balls were "inadvertently harvested" with potatoes. The company doesn't say how that happened.

Congress must act by Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown on Donald Trump's 100th day in office. That could be complicated as the White House pushes a border wall, health care and taxes.

In a session with World Cafe's David Dye, the California trio's members discuss the themes of empowerment in their music and perform songs from The World We Built.

On the surface it doesn't sound like much, but the oil giant BP opening a gas station in the outskirts of Mexico City carries symbolic importance.

NPR economics correspondent John Ydstie joins Here & Now's Robin Young to go over some of the details of President Trump's tax plan.