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The plan calls for a six-week extension of the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling that, if implemented, would remove the immediate threat to financial markets. But Democrats stood their ground, saying they will not negotiate until the GOP also agrees to open the government.

How old you feel can affect your physical and mental health. Older people who took a memory test said they felt older after they took the test than they did before. But researchers say this age shift effect can be positive when older people are tested on something they're great at, like word puzzles.

A dozen of the busiest and biggest U.S. national parks have lost some 7 million visitors because of the partial government shutdown. That's costing the parks and nearby communities tens of millions of dollars a day and potentially hundreds of jobs, according to a new report.

Since wrapping up the last Harry Potter film, Daniel Radcliffe has taken on roles you may not have expected from the former boy wizard. He tells Fresh Air that starting his acting career so young gave him a sense of purpose he wasn't finding in the British school system, and he hasn't looked back since.

Visual artist Carrie Mae Weems has been celebrated for her art and activism for decades, and now she can add a MacArthur "genius" grant to her collection. In a conversation with NPR's Michel Martin, Weems discusses life, love and turning 60.

Dusten Brown said the love for his daughter let him accept things beyond his control. It's time, he said, for Baby Veronica to have a normal life.

For some critically ill patients, the government shutdown feels like a matter of life or death. And it has nothing to do with funding or defunding the Affordable Care Act.

His 1962 mission lasted only five hours but it was rocked with technical glitches that worried a waiting nation. Carpenter was also the fourth American astronaut to fly in space.

A New York judge has ruled that an unpaid intern is not an employee and, therefore, is not able to bring suit under provisions of the New York City Human Rights Law.

At the U.S. Naval Academy, more than 600 staff members have been furloughed. Here & Now speaks with the one public affairs officer who gets to stay on the job.