Prices for candy, the most popular Halloween purchase, and gum have risen 7.7% in one year and are up more than 18% in two years, according to the latest federal data.

The competitive map for control of the U.S. Senate has expanded considerably in the final days before Election Day. Here's a ranking of those competitive races from most likely to flip to least likely.

Republicans control 10 more state legislatures than Democrats. That's where most laws on taxes, abortion, crime and schools are made.

Hint: He likes them big (and he cannot lie).

NPR member stations are gathering information for voters — from voter guides down to local races. Scroll through to find your state and the resources available from your local member station.

The websites of unknown origin are targeting key U.S. House races. They are getting picked up by ChatGPT's responses but Google's products avoid promoting them.

Critics say the tech entrepreneur's enormous wealth has given him too much political power. But when stacked up against other notable American moguls, historians say he's not unique.

Israel's consequential election has ended in a deadlock, with neither side able to claim a majority, What happens now?

Most kids say they use chatbots for help with homework and when they're stressed, lonely, or anxious. And how they use chatbots is tied to their mental health.

An NPR investigation finds that more than 15,000 military veterans were put into much-higher-cost home loans after the Trump administration cut a key program. Many now pay $1,000 more per month.

BBC business reporter Archana Shukla explains more about what is suspected to be the largest hack in history.

The actor died in Los Angeles following a "a brief and poignant journey" with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia.

The renowned British actor died after "a brief and poignant journey" with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy Body Dementia, his spokesperson says.

Foreign firms awarded large defence contracts will need to invest an equal value back into the UK, Wes Streeting announces.

Could the faithfuls finally come good in Thursday's penultimate episode?

Whatever the result of the midterm elections, the party is facing tough questions over what they stand for and who should represent them.

End of subsidies and rising prices drive discontent, testing support for Ahmed al-Sharaa's government.

Foggy conditions likely to bring tricky conditions for the Friday morning commute as severe weather warning issued.

Google spooked investors so badly that its stock hit a six-month low, after it revealed its AI search summaries were affecting ad revenue.

Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Joanna Wietrzyk says her determination to win the Hyrox race in September had clouded her judgement.

Customer says they received fraudulent charges on their card hours before company notified them

Just wait 'til we add more AI and this thing'll really fly

Human users can be hard to handle. A few hundred head of cattle and unsupported windows XP can really stink things up

Before long, we could be writing about a cloud company with a retail side hustle

Binance freezes funny money after compromise of engineer’s laptop linked to $6.3 billion of unauthorized trades

CEO predicts massive datacenter CPU boom, coming soon, but production problems mean Chipzilla may not cash in

Embedded browsers are at the heart of the problem

Ask AI dumb things and leave no local chat history, all with the style of a kids' fantasy novel – or rather, one of its magical letters

Infrastructure automation needs something better than prompt and pray

Rust guru rejiggers web app reactivity for potentially speedier page loading

Reddit's search traffic "was down meaningfully" last quarter.

The latest update also brings a cloud recovery option for PCs that won't boot.

Inspector general rejected request from Democratic and Republican senators.

President orders trade talks on foreign-made factory robots, threatens tariffs.

Spy accused of exploiting Trump ties to Huang, funneling secrets to China.

Plant design allows it to run on either stored solar heat or combustion.

Charges filed as Trump admin tries to save Kalshi from Utah's total ban on gambling.

Google's negative cash flow balloons to -$9.06 billion, and stock price tumbles following Q3 earnings.

The leak reveals undercover agents, surveillance groups, and sensitive DHS access.

"NASA desperately needs SpaceX, and SpaceX knows it, and Elon knows it."