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It's been 75 years since Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. In this week's StoryCorps, we hear from a man who watched him play.

Maytag's new owner, Whirlpool, says it will make huge cuts to the white- and blue-collar work force in Newton, Iowa, laying off thousands of workers. Slated to close are Maytag's corporate headquarters and research center in Newton, a town synonymous with Maytag that has seen generations of family members work in the state's most visible Fortune 500 company.

Aftershocks and torrential rains make the search for survivors even more difficult in the aftermath of a major earthquake in a densely populated area of Indonesia. More than 4,300 people are known to be dead.

Israeli officials say they expect some Jewish settlers slated for evacuation from the Gaza Strip to resist relocation but there are families that have already begun to move on their own.

As the leaders of the world's industrialized nations meet in Gleneagles, Scotland, protesters gathered outside. Thousands demonstrated for more aid for Africa, against war, and against the G8 itself. A police plan allows protesters no closer than 500 meters from the site.

Vice President Harris said in a speech Tuesday night that women's rights are under attack as the Supreme Court appears ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a leaked draft opinion.

Fifty-one migrants died after being trapped in a tractor-trailer in Texas. NPR's A Martinez talks to Antonio Fernandez, CEO of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Antonio about the survivors.

R. Kelly's federal trial in Chicago is starting. The singer faces a slew of legal battles and was already sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking and racketeering.

On Second Stage, All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton profiles the best of music's great unknowns. He chooses the best outsider artists of 2007: musicians who made remarkable recordings that were largely overlooked, led by Le Loup.

On the band's follow-up to Transgender Dysphoria Blues, the personal and political dovetail into an inseparable tangle of anxieties and fuel for protest.