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The SFA Fund said DeSantis "called China ‘Florida’s most important trading partner.’" PolitiFact found no evidence in news reports or statements that he said this about Florida’s biggest trading partner for imported goods.

Before her death in 1973, Pearl S. Buck wrote one final novel. ButThe Eternal Wonder languished in a Texas storage unit for decades until its discovery last fall.

In a courtroom in Austin, Texas, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones faced the parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. Jones had repeatedly claimed the shooting was a hoax.

Pitbull fans are honoring him the only way they know how: partying till dawn in bald caps and fake goatees.

The third (and final) installment of this Hollywood satire finds C-lister Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) helming an AI-written show.

All summer, Weekend Edition traveling commentator Captain Fatty Goodlander is sending in stories from his travels abroad. This week, his essay comes from the South China Sea off Johor Bahru, a city in Malaysia.

A nationwide shotgun shell shortage is making it harder for Alaska Natives to hunt for food. Migratory birds are a main source of sustenance for many rural communities at this time of year.

Since the earthquakes last month, some people in Turkey are taking investigations into the shoddy construction that led to tragedy in their own hands — and social media feeds.

After leaving the Marines, George Hill became addicted to drugs and alcohol, and found himself on the streets of Los Angeles. But a handful of change from a fellow homeless man sent Hill on the path to recovery and joy.

President Biden's economic rescue bill includes $350 billion in aid to state and local governments. While state finances have fared better than predicted, local governments may be less stable.

Friday night was one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history as Mississippi State upset UConn 66-64 in overtime at the Women's Final Four.

At Busch Gardens in Tampa Friday morning, Gov. Rick Scott said more people than ever are visiting Florida. From July through September, Florida welcomed…

In rural North Carolina, an electric cooperative is reliving its New Deal history, bringing technologies like electric cars and broadband Internet to isolated communities struggling with poverty.

Social media site Bluesky is exploding with growth, adding more than 1 million users a day. New interest is being driven by users fed up with Elon Musk's X. We talk to Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.

More schools across the country are starting to ban students' cell phones during classes. As one Colorado school tries it out, staff like it, but students not so much.

The job market improved in June, as employers added 288,000 workers to their payrolls and the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent. In another welcome development, the ranks of the long-term unemployed declined.

An intense debate is underway in Pakistan over what to do about a surge of deadly Taliban attacks. The city's chief counterterrosim officer was killed a few weeks ago. Superintendent Chaudhry Aslam Khan was and remains a legendary figure.

The NFL is struggling to handle players who want to protest during the national anthem and Ohio State is facing a sexual abuse scandal. We hear about those stories and more sports news.

A judge has held former President Trump in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena from New York's attorney general. He's being fined $10,000 per day for failing to produce documents.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein has spurred election recounts in multiple states. Charles Ellison of The Root discusses his post titled "4 Ways the Jill Stein Recount Screws Black Voters."

New White House testing adviser Dr. Tom Inglesby talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro about COVID testing shortages in the U.S. and the Biden administration's efforts to increase access, including at-home kits.

Clive James was diagnosed with leukemia a few years ago. "There is a grief in all poetry," he writes in his latest book of essays. "Poetry holds itself together, and eventually we ourselves do not."

Four adult siblings agree to spend one final summer vacation together in Tessa Hadley's new novel. Reviewer Maureen Corrigan says The Past is "as disturbing as it is diverting."

Senators excoriated Navy Department witnesses, including the commandant and sergeant major of the Marine Corps, over an online ring in which service members shared explicit photos of their female colleagues. The Pentagon is investigating a scandal that now appears to go beyond just the Marine Corps as first believed.