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A busload of coal miners from Appalachia are lobbying members of Congress to shore up the black lung disability trust fund, which is billions of dollars in debt.

J. Ryan Stradal wasn't seeing the strong, Midwestern women who raised him reflected well in contemporary fiction. So he decided to write those characters himself in The Lager Queen of Minnesota.

The spirit of Cab Calloway lives on in Masego, the singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who surprised NPR's Tiny Desk audience with a zany sense of showmanship.

A powerful telescope is taking shape in the Chilean Andes. When finished, it will repeatedly image huge swaths of the sky, searching for rare events such as merging stars and other events.

Officials from Boeing provide new details about its troubled 737 Max planes while disclosing the financial damage that the grounding has caused.

The NAACP convention in Detroit is creating strategies to "make black votes count" at a time when President Trump sends racist Tweets. Convention delegates are aiming the pitch to younger voters.

Groups are trying to encourage immigrants to take part in the 2020 census while dealing with the fallout from the Trump administration's failed citizenship question push, and immigration enforcement.

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller gives testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, the first of two hearings on Capitol Hill Wednesday about his report on interference and obstruction.

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies on interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Noel King speaks to Laura Rosenberger of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund.

The married musicians offer their own synthesis of folk, country, rock and the blues on their new album. The music that results is unsettling, with a beauty that's both comforting and soothing.