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NPR has tracked the prices of dozens of items at the same superstore in Georgia, including eggs, T-shirts, snacks and paper towels. Here's what got cheaper over the past year, and more expensive.

The winter storm could bring heavy snow and freezing rain, making for dangerous conditions. Some states are used to such weather and have advice for how to prepare.

Two Republicans joined Democrats to vote for the war powers resolution, but the motion failed in a 215-215 vote.

The House has approved the final set of spending bills to avoid a government shutdown, despite objections from Democrats to the funding levels set for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A federal jury acquitted Combs of his most serious charges — racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking — but found him guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas is formally investigating a recent study on global warming. Smith calls the timing of the study's publication "suspicious," but many scientists call his tactics "bullying."

Hany Farid co-developed the technology that tracks child pornography. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that similar software could be used to track terror content if tech companies were willing to use it.

Steve Inskeep talks to Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin about President Obama's speech Sunday night. Johnson is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Even though the public largely supports it and the Supreme Court has upheld it, just 27 people have been executed this year, almost the same number of fatalities from lightning strikes.

Seven years ago, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to zero. David Greene talks to David Wessel of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution about what impact this has had on the economy.