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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Paco de Leon, financial advice columnist for Refinery 29, on how renters can best deal with the increase.

As the fighting in Ukraine enters a second week, Russian and Ukrainian forces are still battling over control of strategic cities.

The U.S. and its allies are taking additional steps to squeeze the Russian economy in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Russia's currency has fallen, which will mean higher prices for Russians.

A torrent of satellite images and cell phone videos are shaping the public's view of the war in Ukraine. The speed and scale at which the information spreads is powerful, but it can also be deceiving.

At North Korea's first Workers' Party Congress in 36 years, Kim declares "unprecedented results" in recent nuclear and missile tests. He's shown greater willingness to speak publicly than his father.

While it's good that many called out the overstep in reaction, it also made us think about the ways that these outrage cycles happen, and often get ignored, when people of color are involved.

"We see a really clear association between how these maps were drawn in the '30s and the air pollution disparities today," says an author of a study on the effects of the discriminatory policy.

Critics, including the National Park Service, said exploding rockets after launch could rain fiery debris onto surrounding land, including a federally protected wilderness.

Dollar Tree and Dollar General reported quarterly earnings that beat expectations. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Harvard business professor Willy Shih about shopping during high inflation.

America runs on diesel. It keeps freight moving, factories humming and farmers planting. But a surge in diesel prices is making everything more expensive.

The fallacy is that we are surprised when things that are supposed to vary a lot, come down one way a number of times. We feel the next case must break the pattern. In reality, there is no pattern.

A certain anti-authoritarian anthem linked to the punk rock pioneers and the British monarch, is being re-released as Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her platinum jubilee.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Anand Giridharadas, author of the book Winners Take All: the Elite Charade of Changing the World, about Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter in the name of free speech.

Actor Jason Sudeikis says he never meant for his former fiancée to be served papers in front of thousands of spectators. But how did that happen? A process server explains the mechanics of the system.

The United Nations continues to debate war with Iraq over its weapons of mass destruction. These weapons seem all the more frightening because of worries they could fall into the hands of terrorists. For National Geographic's Radio Expeditions, NPR's Alex Chadwick visited Trinity, the remote New Mexico test site where the most terrifying weapon ever -- the atomic bomb -- was born.

Felipe Calderon and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador both declare victory in Mexico's presidential election. Authorities say an official vote count will not be complete until later in the week. With more than 30 million votes counted, preliminary numbers showed the two men only 300,000 votes apart.

Former Marine Bing West talks with Steve Inskeep about the efforts against insurgents in Ramadi. Bing has been to Ramadi nine times since 2003. He returned from an assignment there last week, reporting for the online magazine Slate.

Jay Waite, an associate director of the U.S. Census Bureau, talks about new methods used to measure demographic change. Surveys conducted once a decade are not sufficient for local planners. So data will now be available that is only a year old, covering everything from Internet access to language issues.

The past week has brought big changes to CIA headquarters. Former CIA officials tell NPR that there's a growing sense of optimism for the future. In particular, they generally like the choice of Gen. Michael Hayden to lead the spy organization.

Lynn Neary talks to Simon Hand, editor of the Phuket Post, about the effect of Thailand's military coup on the tourist-oriented Thai island of Phuket.

Lebanon is asking Israel to avoid hitting ancient Roman ruins in Baalbek as the Jewish state attacks targets in the eastern Bekaa Valley. At the same time, Israeli operations continue to make it difficult to move humanitarian aid into many of Lebanon's rural regions.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to film critic Kenneth Turan, who reviews the new film: Downton Abbey: A New Era.

The court gave a life sentence to a 21-year-old Russian army sergeant for shooting and killing an unarmed Ukrainian man during the first days of the war. Its the first war crimes trial of the war.

Alex Chadwick talks with Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick about the Supreme Court confirmation hearings beginning Monday for Judge John Roberts. The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering Roberts for the post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Kalush Orchestra's Oleh Psiuk told NPR that representing Ukraine on the world stage was a huge responsibility. He hopes people will continue to support his country.