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Roommates overall are skewing older, as young people stay with their parents for longer. The share of older adults looking to rent with a roommate has tripled from a decade ago.

The new federal benefit is designed to cushion the blow of the pandemic. But some businesses that want to stay open say it's hard to do so when employees can make more money by staying home.

Women are underrepresented in the top ranks of academic science, but they attend grad school in equal numbers as men. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to science correspondent Joe Palca about the disparity.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Leon Panetta, former secretary of defense and CIA director under President Obama, about the arrest of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks.

After taking control of the House of Representatives, Democrats voted to change rules about how the chamber is run, including one lowering chances of confrontation over the nation's debt limit.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Jakub Krupa about how Brexit will affect Poles working in the United Kingdom. Krupa is a journalist and social activist working with the Polish community in Britain.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat of New York about the latest news on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that were planned for the weekend.

In Texas, early voting is underway ahead of the Nov. 4 election. In the north Texas town of Denton, that means people are deciding whether they want to ban the oil and gas drilling method known as "fracking." The outcome of that vote will have repercussions across the state.

Two years ago, scientists surveyed the floor of Lake Michigan looking for shipwrecks. They found something mysterious and unexpected — a cluster of sinkholes on the lakebed.

David Greene talks to Solomon Wisenberg about his time working with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on the Whitewater and Lewinsky investigations.