The latest Consumer Price Index showed that the average electric bill went up a little more than 5% from September 2024 to September 2025. That's more than the overall rate of inflation for the same period. The conventional wisdom is that greater demand for power from the explosive growth of data centers is the reason for the high cost. But a new analysis by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the consulting group Brattle concludes that it's not that simple. Watch John Yang's interview wit

Will Americans receive $2,000 dividend checks from the tariffs placed by the Trump administration? Not so fast, according to analysis by our editorial partners at @PolitiFact. President Donald Trump has promised that "low and middle income" Americans will receive the payments from the "trillions of dollars" in tariff revenue he said his administration has collected. In the first year of his second term, the president has placed tariffs on numerous countries as well as categories of specific good