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This week on 'Brave New Workers': After 20 years working as a performer in the adult entertainment industry, Alana Evans is putting her efforts into organizing for the Adult Performers Actors Guild.

Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation," in which people of color were purposely excluded from suburbs.

A new apple variety is on its way. It's called Cosmic Crisp, and farmers in Washington state are planting these trees by the millions. They're making a risky bet that consumers will like it.

Tony Kim, an accounting instructor in his 50s, was detained at Pyongyang's airport in April. At least two other Americans are known to be held in North Korea, sentenced to prison and hard labor.

"I've always heard that perhaps the toughest deal to make is the deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Let's see if we can prove them wrong," he said alongside Palestinian leader Abbas.

A deadline is approaching for lawmakers to undo an Obama-era regulation that aims to limit the emissions of methane — a powerful greenhouse gas — from energy production sites on public lands.

Central bank policymakers provided little guidance on the timing of a rate hike. They said slow growth in the first quarter it is likely transitory and that inflation is close to a goal of 2 percent.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab about Palestinian reactions to President Trump's meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks to Joseph DeTrani, former State Department special envoy for negotiations with North Korea, about the detention of a third American in North Korea.

Iranian state media say at least 21 miners died and scores more were injured in the mine in northern Iran. More than a dozen people were thought to still be trapped in the mine.