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Wal-Mart plans to share part of its savings under the new tax law with its employees. The giant retailer announced today it is boosting its starting wage to $11 an hour and handing out bonuses to most of its employees.

NPR's Ari Shaprio speaks with Taylor Eldridge, investigative reporter for The Marshall Project. The prison system change means that only care packages sent through private companies will be allowed.

In Flint Michigan, hundreds of people have filed lawsuits over that city's lead water crisis. Most of the lawsuits have been consolidated into one massive case. On Thursday, a federal district judge in Ann Arbor ordered all the parties into mediation.

Reaching an agreement on a DACA fix is only half the battle. The House and Senate would then have to approve it — and that could be tough, given how entrenched both parties' bases are on immigration issues.

The South Carolina band infuses funk and soul with influences from a Southern culture whose roots trace back to West and Central Africa.

Vera Farmiga choo-choo-chooses Liam Neeson for a deadly assignment in this everyone's-a-suspect thriller set on a commuter train.

Trudie Stylar's coming-of-age film about a queer kid running for Homecoming Queen at his conservative private school is bright and stylized, if a bit thin on plot and characterization.

In an age of cringeworthy kids'-movie sequels, Paddington 2 proves "a lovely yarn with effects that dazzle, slapstick segments that shine and accomplished British thespians who give their all."

It has been 50 years since Cash recorded his legendary live album. At Folsom Prison boosted his then-flagging career and highlighted his efforts to reform the nation's penal system.

Prisoners advocates expressed optimism after a White House meeting with the president. But the bipartisan effort to overhaul the way criminals are punished has downsized its goals in the Trump era.