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Even Syrians who made their way to Russia long before their country's civil war are finding life tougher since the war started, with employers exploiting their desperation for a safe home.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dawn Porter, a resident of Midland, Mich., about the flooding that forced thousands of people to evacuate.

Retail sales have dropped significantly since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but viewership has gone up for QVC and HSN.

Social distancing has people doing more of their own cooking and cleaning and getting family to cut their hair. That's left domestic workers, waiters, hair stylists and many others out of work.

In other years, tens of thousands of fans would attend the Super Bowl and millions more would watch from bars or at parties. This is not other years — so how are fans watching during the pandemic?

This week, a former aide came forward and accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment after the governor was already under investigation for misclassifying COVID-19 nursing home deaths.

Mystery writer Julie Smith offers a tour of the hauntingly Gothic city she calls home. New Orleans, says Smith, is a great place to write mysteries — not because of the city's crime, but because of its secrets.

Jennine Capó Crucet, author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, was inspired by her experiences as the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first person in her family to attend college.

Jonathan Safran Foer is back with a mammoth new novel that explores the dissolution of a marriage, and larger questions: What kind of lives are we living, and how do we respond to the world around us?

A new Netflix reality show called Marriage or Mortgage reveals a lot about the emotional aspects of homebuying, according to Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary.