Keeping a museum's temperature and humidity constant -- rain or shine, all year long -- takes a massive amount of energy, and it's expensive. But some museums have a solution.

A U.S. Senate race in Texas is now set with the state's Attorney General Ken Paxton winning the GOP nomination in a primary runoff Tuesday. He'll face Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.

For the World Cup, FIFA requires a particular kind of pitch: a hybrid of natural and artificial grass. We hear about what it takes to make it.

Next week's primary in California includes a closely watched race between two Democrats in the state's Central Valley competing to unseat GOP Rep. David Valadao.

A long-standing legal principle -- that judges should not make changes to voting or election rules too close to an election -- is prompting questions and criticism this election season.

The price of a gallon of gas is up well over a dollar from where it was a year ago and these swing voters are feeling it.

A measles outbreak in Bangladesh is suspected to have killed more than 500 and sickened up to 60,000. Bangladesh was getting ...

Democrats are looking for a path to winning more Congressional seats in the future. One way may be to court more rural voters.

At least 18 NPR journalists have accepted buyouts and another 10 have been laid off as the public media network attempts to ...