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President Donald Trump speaks during a White House senior staff swearing in ceremony at the White House on Sunday

Trump Aide Says He Won't Release Tax Returns, Claiming Most People Don't Care

Kellyanne Conway also pushes back hard against claims that the administration misrepresented the size of the crowd at Friday's inauguration.

Sliced sections of lungs show the damage and disease caused by excessive exposure to coal and silica dust. The middle slide depicts a lung with fibrotic tissue resulting from simple coal workers' pneumoconiosis or black lung. The slide on the right shows hardened and blackened lung tissue when black lung disease reaches its most advanced stage.

NPR Continues To Find Hundreds Of Cases Of Advanced Black Lung

Black lung results from exposure to coal dust. Progressive massive fibrosis is an especially aggressive form, blamed on inhalation of silica dust from the cutting of quartz rock and coal together.

What's The Best Way To File Your Taxes? It Depends

The deadline this year to file tax returns is April 18, and thousands of people have already started.

New York Daily News And ProPublica Win Pulitzer For Public Service Journalism

Writers, editors and artists took home Pulitzer Prizes across 21 categories on Monday. Among the winners was author Colson Whitehead for his novel, The Underground Railroad.

The Chicago Cubs celebrate after winning 8-7 in Game Seven of the 2016 World Series. It had been 108 years since the team won their last series.

NPR News Nuggets: 108 Years Later, Crazed Coffee Consumers & Kit-Kat Nabber

Here's a quick roundup of some of the mini-moments you may have missed on this week'sMorning Edition.

Deborah Birx is the U.S. global AIDS coordinator.

Top U.S. AIDS Official Touts Progress, Has Tough Words For Tanzania

An interview with Dr. Deborah Birx, the U.S. Global AIDS coordinator. She says this is an "exciting" time in the global fight against the disease.

Canadian athletes hold up the national flag during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Sen. Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, and some question his eligibility to run for president in the U.S.

Is Ted Cruz Allowed To Run Since He Was Born In Canada?

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz became the first major candidate to declare for president, but some question whether he's eligible since he was born in Canada. Legal scholars, though, believe he can.

John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, testifies on Capitol Hill last June. Sopko says the Afghans are still having trouble managing the money the U.S. sends to the country. The U.S. has spent $110 billion on Afghanistan's reconstruction since 2002.

The Man Who Keeps Tabs On U.S. Money Spent In Afghanistan

John Sopko says the Afghans still do a poor job of managing the billions they get from the U.S. and he has documented the abuses. Still, he supports the ongoing U.S. efforts there.

During her lifetime, singer and dancer Carmen Miranda (shown here in a dressing room at the London Palladium in 1948) was a huge success in the United States, but rejected at home in Brazil as a sellout.

Of Fruit Hats And 'Happy Tropics,' A Renaissance For Carmen Miranda

The Brazilian performer was a huge hit with American audiences who loved her outrageous costumes and beautiful voice. But she's been less appreciated in her homeland — until now.

The pizza lobby tries to influence things like school lunches and the calorie labels that go on the pies.

#NPRreads: On America's First Suicide Bombing And Its Influential Pizza Lobby

From the people on our money to the effects of calling someone black, this week, we bring you four reads that illuminate a bit of history or pieces of regulation you may not have known about.

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