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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.

Michigan created a special fund to cover work-related cancers in firefighters, but legislators never put any money in it.

It may seem a little strange the All Writs Act of 1789 has been applied to a privacy and encryption case in 2016. NPR has a look at this 227-year-old law.

The visit would be the first by a sitting U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge visited the island in 1928.

The U.S. and Iran swapped prisoners last month, before the lifting of sanctions. But Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American businessman, remains in an Iranian jail, raising concerns among the diaspora.

Despite changes after the 2008 financial crisis, Neel Kashkari, one of the leading figures in the federal bailout, says major banks are still at risk. "I don't think we've gone far enough," he says.

Mexico said farewell to Pope Francis from the border city of Juárez. His journey across the country followed the well worn path taken by millions of immigrants to reach the doorstep of the U.S.

Leaders from the European Union are meeting to consider how to tackle the refugee crisis. Steve Inskeep talks to Peter Wittig, Germany's ambassador to the U.S. about the refugee crisis in Europe.

Renee Montagne talks to Matthew Olsen, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, about the battle with Apple over accessing the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino killers.

"We're talking about gloves, full body cover and goggles," says a porn industry executive of the California proposal to require condom use on the set. Proponents say it's about workplace safety.