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The price of avocados has almost doubled since this time last year. It's supply and demand, and it's a strain on restaurants that depend on the fruit for guacamole or avocado toast.

What purpose do presidential debates serve?

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Yet-Ming Chiang, professor of materials science and engineering at MIT, about why new battery technology is key to cutting carbon emissions and slowing climate change.

Tiny Changes — a collection of covers from Frightened Rabbit — is intended as a celebration. But the project has taken on new weight after the death of the band's lead singer.

A 2013 crowdfunding campaign brought the beloved detective series back from the dead for a movie. But it also boxed in the show, and the fourth season shows some of the risks of fan-driven work.

In two separate hearings on Wednesday, Democrats want Americans who haven't read Mueller's findings to see and hear them instead. Republicans want to take the former special counsel down a peg.

Coal miners will press members of Congress to fully restore a coal excise tax that supports miners diagnosed with black lung. The tax was cut more than 50% at the end of last year.

The CDC confirms that 51 percent of Americans surveyed admitted using swimming as an alternative to bathing, and the agency doesn't say that's a bad thing.

Members of the ruling conservative party have voted for Boris Johnson to replace Theresa May, who is resigning. Johnson, a former foreign secretary and mayor of London, is a Brexit supporter.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute, and formerly of the National Iranian American Council, about how current tensions in the Persian Gulf are affecting Iranian politics.