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Electricity prices are rising more than twice as fast as overall inflation. That's especially costly during the dog days of summer when air conditioners are working hardest. In addition to hot weather, a variety of factors are causing power bills to climb, including the high cost of natural gas used to generate electricity and soaring demand from data centers.

Bill reads three news-related limericks...Camp Boring, iLung, Froggy Style

Unless you've voted early, Tuesday is the day to have your say after months of hearing from candidates. Each party is selling a different version of the future through their respective political ads.

When's the last time you read a comic book? Here are five for summer, covering everything from tiny Finnish critters to Viennese punk rockers and musings on Anna Wintour. Writer Myla Goldberg says they represent a golden age in comic art.

An NPR producer found out firsthand what happens when a returnee from Liberia registers a temperature and must contact the U.S. health bureaucracy.

Female Marines are being humiliated and generally degraded by their peers on Facebook. The groups' pages are frequently shut down, but return within days due to a dedicated following.

On 17 Sundays every fall, millions of people tune in to this cable channel, which airs for just seven hours a week and endeavors to show each score from as many as 12 simultaneous football games.

Was it the enchilada pie? After three members of her family became miserably ill with gastroenteritis, a woman is determined to track down the microbial culprit. But the mystery may remain unsolved.

Renee Montagne talks to former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, a Clinton supporter. And, Tamara Keith reports on Clinton campaigning in California, one of six states voting on Tuesday.

About a dozen Wisconsin prisoners plan to launch a hunger strike on June 10, aimed at ending a form of indefinite solitary confinement that officials use…