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Kentucky has one black lung doctor left after the state legislature restricted who can review workers' compensation claims for the disease. This came amid a surge in black lung cases in Appalachia.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency helps people financially after disasters, but some disaster survivors say the agency is not clear on deadlines they need to meet for their recovery assistance.

A Democratic group is planning to spend millions on legislative campaigns in Republican-controlled statehouses — targeting states that have Democratic governors but GOP-dominated legislatures.

Peter Payette is the Executive Director of Interlochen Public Radio and has managed the news department since 2001. For more than a decade, he hosted the weekly program Points North and has reported on a wide range of issues critical to the culture and economy of northern Michigan. His work has been featured on NPR, Michigan Radio, Bridge magazine and Edible Grande Traverse. He has taught journalism and radio production to students and adults at Interlochen Center for the Arts. He is also working on a book about the use of aquaculture to manage Great Lakes fisheries, particularly the use of salmon from the Pacific Ocean to create a sport fishery in the 1960s.

It's been almost a year since Rev. Mary Frances Comer was first diagnosed with COVID-19. She recently decided to step away from ministry for the time being to focus on her health. She's trying to rebuild her life, her home and her calling as a minister while still suffering from the effects of long COVID.

There are three high profile court cases going on in three different parts of the country. Central to all are race and racism in the United States.

Watch the R&B star-in-the-making perform three songs, including a guest appearance by H.E.R.

Corea, who died in February, remains the most-awarded jazz musician in Grammys history. But Corea, who always identified as a jazz player, wasn't landlocked by any genre conventions. He wasn't alone.

In this week's Heat Check selects, Kevin Abstract says goodbye to BROCKHAMPTON (kind of?), $ilkmoney shrugs off virality, a singer synthesizes the sounds of the UK's contemporary R&B scene and more.

A deft career pivot turned the British artist from a backup dancer for pop videos into a multimedia auteur, with a hand in nearly every aspect of her music career. She speaks with NPR's Scott Simon.

Channing Tatum plays a real armed robber who hid out in a Toys "R" Us. Daniel Craig returns for the next Knives Out mystery. And Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler gets a gorgeously rendered adaptation.

NPR's Planet Money team follows the oil they bought on the final part of its journey — into someone's gas tank.

The final installment in our month-long series for Women's History Month exploring 100 years of music history.

The songwriter who defined '90s R&B has been getting his due lately, but more than his melodies, it's his ability to understand collaborators — so often women — that marks him as an icon of the genre.

Here is a rundown of the action on the football fields from across the state.

Mecklenburg County Commission Chair Mark Jerrell gives his first State of the County address after warning of the need for belt tightening and a potential property tax increase. N.C. Sen. Thom Tillis releases records of threats he’s received recently. ICE says it has arrested two dozen undocumented immigrants in the area. And Union County votes to ban "obscene" events from parks.

On the next Charlotte Talks, alcohol consumption. Increasingly, the medical community has issued warnings about the safety of drinking alcohol — even one drink per day — due to links between that and cancer. On the flip side of consuming something potentially harmful is the concept of food as medicine, one being acted on by a cooperative effort between a behavioral health facility and a Charlotte chef.

"I absolutely was an advocate" for destroying CIA interrogation tapes in 2005, Haspel said, if the act was found to be "conforming to U.S. law."

A new collaboration from Karen O and Danger Mouse, a fresh new beat from French producer FKJ and a new single from Jack White's The Raconteurs are among this month's favorites.

More than a mere chronicler armed with facts and dates, Sam Roberts is a nonfiction writer with the heart of a novelist; he's writing about buildings — but he does so while telling engaging stories.