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Artist Jill Magid inscribed pennies with "The body was already so fragile" — and now brings a film of the process to Brooklyn, giving people a chance to reflect on the pandemic.

Home health care workers are among the lowest paid, shifting the burden of long-term care to aging and overstressed family members or assisted living centers, which are often understaffed themselves.

Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawai announces that nine armed militias comprising some 100,000 men will disband. Under the plan, the militiamen will be eligible for jobs in the police, army or security services, and may also qualify for civilian government jobs. The militia controlled by the radical Shiite cleric Muktadr Sadr is not part of the pact. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Deborah Amos.

The Hilliard Ensemble is a Renaissance music group that also applies its talents to modern compositions. The group has a repertoire that spans five centuries. David D'Arcy reports.

West Coast admirers of the late president view his flag-draped casket at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Los Angeles. After a funeral in Washington, D.C., later this week, the 40th president will be buried at a memorial site at the library. Hear NPR's Madeleine Brand.

Ali Wong, Roy Wood Jr., Amber Ruffin and Hasan Minhaj are all on this critic's shortlist of candidates for the job.

In an unusual editorial, The New York Times says it made mistakes when it reported on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The paper found that, in the months before the war, reporters and editors relied too heavily on Iraqi defectors and U.S. government officials eager to promote a war. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Tom Rosentiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism at the Pew Center.

The U.S. Census Bureau says more than one in six adopted kids are of a different race than their parents. Statistics show that in the foster care system nationally, almost 60 percent of children are black or Latino. For years, there have been acrimonious debates over whether children of color should be placed only with parents who are of the same race. As our series on foster care continues, reporter Allison Keyes examines so-called "trans-racial" adoptions.

Western New York has been particularly hard hit by the decline of the U.S. manufacturing sector and in recent years has lost thousands of jobs. But one local entrepreneur is finding success in resuscitating factories in the depressed region that others had written off. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

Reporter Virginia Biggar talks to teenage contestants in the preliminary round of the National Geographic Bee, testing their knowledge of the Earth's features, names and nations.