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Two New England towns dominated the world's ivory market from 1840 to 1940 — transforming imported tusks from African elephants into piano keys and combs. Today's residents grapple with a dark past.

What happens when it rains nearly every day for more than a month during the hot, summer months? Last July in Central Florida it meant an overflowing...

Rep. Tom Price , the physician and Georgia Republican tapped for the nation’s leading health care job, has long criticized federal spending as excessive...

Florida has a reputation for weird news; one need only peruse the @_FloridaMan Twitter account's timeline or do a web search for "FanGate" to see how the…

The pandemic has sparked a sustained, unprecedented tidal wave of home and backyard projects. The demand outstrips the supply of materials and labor to do the work, leaving homeowners to get creative.

A decade ago, if a Floridian wanted extra cash to replace a roof, install solar panels or a brand new air conditioner, the most common choice was a bank…

To open or not to open? That’s the big question as the new school year comes around –right in the midst of a spike in the number of coronavirus cases in…

President Trump laid out new guidelines to states to start retracting their restrictions as early as Friday. But there are still a lot of questions to consider.

Unstable federal funding puts at risk the government statistics used to track the U.S. economy and population, officials and data users warn. That's before any cuts by President Trump and Congress.

A vast network of professional vaccine skeptics on social media has been waiting for a development like the Johnson & Johnson pause. Now experts say they will milk it for all it's worth and more.

Two years after the oil deal was signed, it collapsed — with the Taliban accusing the Chinese company of breaching the contract and some Chinese employees likening the Taliban's actions to robbery.

On Sunday a federal judge blocked the Trump Administration from deploying national guard troops to Oregon. Oregon's governor, Tina Kotek speaks to NPR's Juana Summers about the next steps.

The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.

On "Florida Matters: Live & Local," the founder of the Tampa-based Grey Bull Rescue, Bryan Stern, explained from the Caribbean how he believes the death toll from the hurricane will be large and that survivors will be left with the remains of damaged homes.

The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades.

A Latinx neighborhood in a wealthy California county hard-hit by COVID-19 reflects on the complex challenges and policy failures affecting vulnerable communities across the U.S. during the pandemic.

Mistrust towards China-produced vaccines, general vaccine hesitancy and distribution complications have all been obstacles in getting the vaccine out in some countries.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis is investigating after NPR reported that the boutique health care provider allowed ineligible patients to skip the COVID-19 vaccine line.

After weeks of decline, coronavirus cases are up in many states. An ex-Trump COVID-19 task force member says hundreds of thousand of deaths may have been prevented if stronger action had been taken.

In February, an albumtopped the iTunes Christian album charts unexpectedly – it was Preacher's Kid, in which Grace Semler Baldridge addresses the depths and limitations of Christian culture.

The possibility that vaccines meant to prevent the disease may also be a treatment for long COVID — when symptoms linger for months — has sparked optimism among patients and scientists.

President Biden wants to spend $200 billion renovating old homes or building affordable new ones. It's a move that would fight climate change in a way that makes people's lives better.

Cooking your bird to a safe 165 F often just results in a dry, boring plate of meat. Luckily, food scientists have studied this problem. Learn their techniques to roast your tastiest bird yet.

Scientists have identified the new coronavirus variant in wastewater in a few U.S. cities. This type of surveillance can help communities stay a step ahead of omicron's spread.

Morteza "Mori" Hosseini has been under scrutiny over questions about his role and relationship with Gov. Ron DeSantis in politically tinged decisions affecting the school.