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Despite her troubles with addiction, British singer Amy Winehouse has soared to popularity and inspired a new generation of female singer-songwriters in the U.K. Young, female artists like Adele and Duffy have found success on the charts.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners and has a challenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is Nicole Speulda from Washington, D.C. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WETA in Washington.

When Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley challenged the state's 5.6 million residents to reduce their home electricity consumption by 15 percent, NPR's Richard Harris looked at ways his household could better conserve.

Gordon Brown is making his first official visit to the United States since becoming British prime minister. He is going to Capitol Hill for a meeting with lawmakers after talks with President Bush at Camp David.

So-called 527 groups are receiving a lot of attention lately for their big spending this political season. But there's another breed of tax-exempt organizations getting less attention. 501c4s are spending millions of dollars on various campaigns, and some experts say most of these groups are simply fronts for corporate interests.

The first man-made object to enter the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space appears to have reached a turbulent zone. NASA's Voyager 1 has hit a spot where the solar wind begins to give way to interstellar space in a cosmic cataclysm known as "termination shock." California Institute of Technology physicist Edward C. Stone, the mission's chief scientist, fills Melissa Block in on the details.

With Barack Obama picking up a big victory in North Carolina on Tuesday night, and Hillary Clinton pulling out a win in Indiana, the Democratic presidential race goes on.

Climate experts are trying to come up with new ways to cut emissions of greenhouse gases after the current international climate treaty expires in 2012. One proposal is to pay developing countries to stop cutting down trees. The experts are gathering in Bali, Indonesia.

In Egypt, where antiquities have stood for millennia, climate change is posing new threats to an ancient country and its people.

Independent groups have yet to unveil an ad as damaging as the Swift Boat Veterans spot that hurt Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid in 2004. But as the summer goes on, more groups are producing radio and TV spots targeting the presidential race and key Senate battles.