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NPR's Emily Harris reports on a new Federal Trade Commission study into the responsibility of oil companies for the exceptionally high Midwestern gasoline prices last summer. The FTC concludes that the oil industry did not take illegal collective action to drive gasoline prices upward, but that individual companies did limit refinery production to maximize prices. In Chicago, Milwaukee, and other parts of the Midwest, prices at the pump exceeded $2 a gallon.

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks...Rated PG for Playground, Doughloft, Fin Mail

British actor Tom Wilkinson is starring in two new films: Separate Lies, opposite Emily Watson, and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Many American viewers first met Wilkinson in the popular British film The Full Monty; he was nominated for an Oscar for In the Bedroom.

Twelve law enforcement officers were shot in downtown Dallas on Thursday; five were killed. Here are the names of those whose lives were lost — and their stories.

Alisyn Camerota's book is about a political newcomer fresh from Hollywood facing off against a female senator. But 2016 similarities aside, the CNN anchor says she wrote it long before the election.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with director Julie Cohen and Saifa Wall about the new documentary Every Body, which uncovers the misconceptions around intersex people and the mistreatment they've faced.

Should I sleep train? What's the best spacing between siblings? What about spanking? Economist Emily Oster answers these anonymous parenting questions with data.

Assimilation has a cost. As a third generation Chinese American, NPR Short Wave's Emily Kwong is rediscovering the language her father once knew, and what that means for where she comes from.

These days everyone has a political podcast. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with podcasters Michael Graham and Emily Bazelon, who review some of the new political podcasts on the left and right.

The latest Consumer Price Index showed prices were up 5.4% compared to a year ago. But how exactly does the government track this number?