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Consumers are paying more around the country. No state's average is below $4.28, according to AAA. But in California, drivers are paying $2 more than that amount.

Earlier this summer, Saga Vanecek was doing what she often does: wading in Sweden's Lake Vidöstern. It was then that she felt something odd beneath her hand and knee. The sword is from the Iron Age.

After his daughter Clio was diagnosed with leukemia last summer, Boston-based singer Alastair Moock turned to music. His latest album is called Singing Our Way Through: Songs for the World's Bravest Kids.

Three years into #MeToo, three women have raised allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Vox senior reporter Anna North on how some men's behavior hasn't changed.

Spotify's much-anticipated debut on the New York Stock Exchange arrived today — but the company has never made a profit. To do so, it needs to predict, and define, the future.

Betty Sandison, 84, this month earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota. She began in 1955, and then paused for family and work reasons. She reenrolled in 2018.

Linda talks with Andy Bey, a singer and piano player. Bey has been singing and playing boogie-woogie since he was a child. He became known for his powerful voice and piano work with Horace Silver and Max Roach. After a 20 year absence from recording, he has released a CD of ballads and standards.

Ken Felts didn't come out as gay until he was 90. He told his daughter about having to abandon his first real love in the 1950s. His story went global on Facebook. Now, at 93, he's found a husband.

Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley of California says a health care proposal from House Speaker Mike Johnson — which is expected to get a vote this week — was "hastily thrown together."

I’m the online producer for Health News Florida, a collaboration of public radio stations and NPR that delivers news about health care issues.

After spending a number of years writing screenplays for Hollywood, author T.R. Pearson is back writing novels. Pearson's latest work is Blue Ridge, but unlike his earlier books, the main character makes his way out of the rural south and into New York City. Tom Vitale speaks with Pearson about the new book.

Cancer is the second most deadly disease in the United States, behind heart disease. There are tests for some cancers — mammograms, pap smears, colon screenings — but not all.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Orville Schell, dean of the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He and other deans, journalists, and representatives of television networks have held meetings on improving the quality of T.V. news. Schell and other deans are worried that although T.V. news reaches a huge portion of the American audience, it's not doing its job in thoroughly informing the public.

Many Americans think tapas translates to “small plates,” because it involves many small plates offering Spanish specialties. But tapas actually refers to a style of eating rather than the specific dishes. 

When is a dunk more than a dunk? When it's wrapped up in proving yourself to your entire high school.

Gov. Rick Scott kicked off the 2016 Florida legislative session Tuesday morning with his annual State of the State address. This week on Florida Matters…

New research confirms what election experts have said all along: Noncitizen voting occasionally happens, but in minuscule numbers and not in any coordinated way.

Progressives are pushing for a wealth tax targeted at the ultra rich like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. However, as it turns out, taxing the richest people in the world is easier said than done.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that dinosaur bone hunter Paul Sereno today unveiled his latest finds, including the skeleton of a huge meat-eating dinosaur that once roamed what is now Africa. Sereno and his colleagues unearthed the remains while hunting for dinosaur bones in the Sahara. The creature is giving scientists a better picture of dinosaur evolution.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with researcher Vanda Felbab-Brown about why she thinks President Trump's proposed tariffs and designating cartels as terrorist organizations won't stop the opioid crisis.

Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi talks with Rachel Martin about the difference between supermarket hummus and Middle Eastern hummus and why he doesn't like to call his cookbooks "vegetarian."

Vice President Harris was in Guatemala on Monday. Next she meets with Mexico's president — on the second leg of her trip to try to address the root cause of Central American migration to the U.S.

President Biden praised the bipartisanship work to craft and pass the bill. But Republicans who supported the measure continue to face blowback.

No discussion of the midyear pop charts would be complete without a breakdown of contenders for the honorific "song of the summer."

Joshua Littman was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, when he was 5. When he was 9, he joined MENSA. Recently, Joshua, 12, wrote a list of questions to ask his mother.