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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Richard Montgomery, a mayor in California, Dr. Ali Khan of the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Chicago epidemiologist Dr. Emily Landon about the rise in cases.

Summer is heating up and so are dozens of classical music festivals all around the country. We couldn't possibly list them all, but here's a sampling of some of the best festivals, from open-air venues and seaside spots to historic concert halls.

If you'd like to try pepper water (it's hot hot hot) or day-old rice (it tastes better than it sounds), we've got the scoop.

After three quarters, you would have been forgiven for thinking the game was a rout by the Atlanta Falcons. Then, the Patriots clawed back to win the first overtime game in Super Bowl history.

New figures show women have more jobs in the U.S. than ever before - but men are still struggling to pull out of the recession. Host Michel Martin speaks with NPR senior business editor Marilyn Geewax, and Ariane Hegewisch from the Institute for Women's Policy Research.

The House tried twice to craft a proposal to end the shutdown and extend the debt ceiling, but both failed to find traction within the GOP. Now, the Senate has restarted talks of its own. The bottom line, however, is that with just hours to go before the U.S. tops its borrowing authority, there's no solid plan on the table.

A voyaging canoe built to revive the centuries-old tradition of Hawaiian exploration is circumnavigating the globe. Its crew has already traveled 26,000 miles navigating with the sun, stars and waves.

Nothing is simple in Mideast relations. Not even hummus. Lebanon, Israel and Palestinians are entangled over who owns the dish. Not even the title of world's largest hummus platter settled the matter.

An attempt to come up with rules to explain the singular appeal of roundtable discussion podcasts by a guy who's on one — and who's listened to hundreds more.

Twice, Britany Miller has asked for special education services and accommodations at two different Houston-area charter schools for her son, Nicholas…