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The attorney for a former Florida sheriff’s deputy is arguing that his client had no legal duty to confront the gunman who murdered 17 people and wounded 17 others at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School nearly six years ago.

For NPR's Life Kit, Shereen Marisol Meraji speaks with Trisha Hersey, author of "Rest Is Resistance," about fighting against the feeling that our productivity equates to our worth.

The state has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the U.S. And this weekend, 80,000 doses will expire because of lack of demand. The campaign is on to get people to sign up.

Sign-ups are down nationally as extended tax credits approved during the COVID pandemic expired. As the enrollment deadline approached, Florida showed the largest drop: more than 260,000 fewer people.

Leaked confidential videos of two former Trump lawyers could shake up the Georgia election interference case. NPR's Scott Detrow and Domenico Montanaro talk with NYU's Melissa Murray.

Criminal defense attorneys all over the country are gearing up for a wave of criminal charges as the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.

A judge in Santa Fe, N.M., has sworn in a panel of jurors. Baldwin is charged with involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 death of a cinematographer on the set of his film “Rust.”

The Internet is full of music, but not all of it generates income for composers and songwriters. Services that specialize in "micro-licensing" are helping to fix that.

A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether to allow the Federal Trade Commission's ban on noncompete clauses to take effect in September. The decision could affect some 30 million people.

Free copies of Amanda Goreman's poem "The Hill We Climb" were handed out by a Miami bookstore this week. It's a way advocates are pushing back against efforts to ban books in Florida's public schools.

Marine Cpl. Joshua Snyder of Maryland died under enemy fire in Iraq. He was a good friend and high school teammate of Lance Cpl. Norman Anderson, a fallen Marine profiled by NPR last month. Friends and family are mourning the losses in Parkton, the men's hometown.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with aviation writer Jon Ostrower about the new supersonic jet United Airlines is planning to purchase.

Cuts to the food stamp program could affect rural grocery stores that rely more heavily on low-income shoppers.

LeBron James is an unrestricted free agent for the first time since 2018. NPR's A Martinez speaks with Eben Novy-Williams, deputy editor with Sportico, about the superstar's potential next move.

Now that Elon Musk owns Twitter, he owes creditors billions of dollars and he is wasting no time cutting costs.

Michael Cohen, a longtime lawyer for President Trump says he paid adult film star Stephanie Clifford, known otherwise as Stormy Daniels, $130,000. The payment happened during the campaign after Clifford alleged she had an affair with Trump.

U.S. new car sales have been recovering for six straight weeks. They're still low compared with pre-coronavirus levels, but huge incentives have helped attract buyers despite an economic crisis.

Not even six weeks into its record-breaking run in theaters, Wicked is available for home viewing starting Dec. 31. Film critic Bob Mondello explains how theatrical releases have changed over time.

For many students in Lahaina, school never started this year. The first day back coincided with the fire that burned down their town. Weeks after, parents demand that schools return.

If Washington does nothing, Social Security will start to run out of money in about a decade. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, is trying to lead an effort to save Social Security. Is anyone listening?

As the Supreme Court takes up fundamental challenges to voting rights laws and affirmative action, the storied NAACP Legal Defense Fund prepares to take on a new leader, Sherrilyn Ifill.

J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a person is dying, and how to reckon with uncomfortable feelings about death.

The state learned this week that it will receive about $400 million in additional federal Medicaid funds, but lawmakers so far haven’t included it in a proposed budget they are trying to finalize.

Michela Wrong's new book is I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation. She presents a case study of the nation of Eritrea, but the problems she writes about, including colonialism and border wars, are prevalent on the entire continent. Wrong is also the author of the PEN award-winning book, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo. She has been a correspondent for Reuters news agency, the BBC and the Financial Times of London.

In the coming weeks state legislatures across the country will swear in newly-elected lawmakers. What are the top issues state governments will focus on in 2023?