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Since the early 1990s, the percentage of homeless adults who are over age 50 has gone from 11 percent to more than 50 percent.

The Daily Show host grew up biracial in South Africa; his mother was jailed for having a relationship with his father. But she always turned to humor before anger, Noah says — a trait he's inherited.

Republican senators have a range of options at their disposal if they want to block an Obama Supreme Court nomination.

President Obama plans to travel to Cuba next month, capping a historic diplomatic thaw after decades of official isolation.

A Los Angeles hospital paid the equivalent of $17,000 in Bitcoins to hackers who took over medical records and shut down the hospital's computer servers for days. The incident is raising questions about patient safety and privacy in the digital age.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. The Republican senator, who is running for re-election this year, said on Sunday we should wait for the next elected president to choose Justice Antonin Scalia's replacement. He has since switched his position, now willing to vote on Obama's Supreme Court nominee.

About two-thirds of millennials aged 25 to 32 don't have a bachelor's degree. But most of the conversation around millennials focuses on college graduates and their concerns about student loan debt. So what issues matter most to young people who don't go to college?

The rural homeless often crash with friends or stay in cheap motels on cold nights due to a lack of shelters. But this means homeless tallies miss them — and the state gets less funding to help them.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Jyri Rantanen, Red Cross and Red Crescent representative in Syria, about the aid convoy happening in Syria, which has gained access to five new cities that were previously under siege.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with the Nicole Winfield of the Associated Press about the pope's justification for use of contraception in regions affected by the Zika virus.