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How hot is it in Florida? It's actually melting art installations across the state.

With the pandemic motivating people to keep away from polling places and continue voting by mail, we look how to make sure your vote counts in November.

It is not clear why the invitation has not been accepted, but those familiar with the exchange say the delay is unusual, considering that absentee ballots will go in the mail as soon as September.

Last week, Hillsborough County Social Services opened up a special call center, designed to help people who lost their jobs or had their pay cut due to…

The Vermont senator is exiting the 2020 race, bowing to the commanding delegate lead that former Vice President Joe Biden has established.

Florida has a growing number of children with a COVID-19 related illness, but how long it has been attacking children and the number of pediatric...

In what could be another delay for Florida’s burgeoning medical-marijuana industry, a Tallahassee judge agreed Wednesday to block state health officials...

Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Ore., have been persisting for over 100 days. And now counterprotesters from the right are making their presence felt in the state.

The House voted to remove Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the Education and Budget committees following controversial statements citing conspiracy theories prior to her election win.

Susanna Sonnenberg's life has been full of interesting women, and in a new memoir she tells their stories. Reviewer Meg Wolitzer says that She Matters: A Life in Friendships is a beautifully written book about the bonds, and the boundary issues, between women.

Joe Kennedy lectures burping baby Ted on political ambition while teenagers Joe Jr. and John wrestle for the presidency. Cartoonist Kate Beaton irreverently recasts history and classic literature in her new book, Hark! A Vagrant.

For the fourth year in a row, VIDA has tallied the gender breakdown in prominent literary journals. Some outlets, like The New York Times Book Review, have grown more equal; others, not so much.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Alabama State Rep. Jeremy Gray about his bill to bring yoga back to the state's public schools.

An oil train derailment near Seattle is under investigation. In late 2020, 10 tanker cars went off the rails. Now, the rail workers unions says they believe the disaster was caused by sabotage.

Longtime NPR correspondent Margot Adler died at the age of 68, after a battle with cancer. Adler's work ranged from the serious to the whimsical and often showcased her love of New York City.

After a racism controversy, the national trade organization for romance writers had been making progress. Then, it gave a major prize to a book whose hero murdered Native Americans at Wounded Knee.

The trial of former officer Kimberly Potter in Minnesota for shooting a suspect when she says she thought she had a Taser in her hand has revived worrying questions about Taser design and use.

Pope Francis appeared on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica to deliver a Christmas message. This pope has traditionally used these messages to focus on conflicts that are afflicting the world.

The international comedy festival draws new and established stand-ups, improvisers, sketch actors, comedy writers. Some people are just looking for a good laugh, but some want to hire the comedians.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to an immigrant, Christopher Francis from Sri Lanka, who was looking for the man who gave him a visa to enter the U.S. 45 years ago.

In Florida, President Trump spent part of his holiday weekend attacking FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Why has the president taken aim at McCabe at this particular moment?

In 2003, U.S. forces discovered a cache of documents and sacred texts that had belonged to Iraq's once-thriving Jewish community in a flooded basement of Saddam Hussein's secret police. The records were transported to the U.S., where efforts to restore them are stalled by a shortage of funds.

Scott Simon speaks to Joan Biskupic, legal analyst at CNN and Supreme Court biographer, about Chief Justice John Roberts and his leadership within the Supreme Court.

As companies that experienced explosive growth in the pandemic begin to scale back, some workers are finding themselves suddenly out of work and scrambling to land something new.

The books were listed because they included “prohibited topics” or were inconsistent with state standards, according to the Florida Department of Education.