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New Senate President Wilton Simpson of Spring Hill gave remarks during the legislature’s organizational session Tuesday, giving a glimpse of how the Senate will look with him at the helm.

The Florida Senate is sending a medical marijuana proposal to the governor. The reform package grants access to terminal patients and carries a number...

I’m the health reporter here at WLRN, but a couple of weeks ago, I declined to go to a town hall meeting in Miami Beach about the city’s very new status...

In 1970, Mexican-American families whose children attended Robb Elementary staged a walkout, making it a pivotal place in the community. Now, some wonder if the school can remain after the shooting.

Poet Ouyang Yu imagines an Olympic event in which he lifts up just one extraordinary word. "The magic of the word is that, when well lifted, it has the power to transform," Yu says.

After President Trump announced he would be attending game 3 of the NBA Finals in New York City, the city moved the official watch party to a park just outside NPR's bureau.

NPR Member stations reveal the new names that have made a mark.

Melbourne native Joe Pan spins a tale of back alley deals, bloodshed, and an all-out narcotics turf war that tests the bounds of friendship.

The state will likely appeal Thursday's ruling by a Miami federal judge that blanket drug testing of Florida state workers is unconstitutional -- saying…

Supply chain backups are snarling ports — and are only expected to get worse before they get better.

Any change in U.S. immigration law will likely include a new "guest worker" program. Limited guest-worker programs already exist for immigrants doing seasonal work. And they're beginning to spread to the year-round occupations in California.

The Malaysian government says it will pay the robotics firm Ocean Infinity $70 million if it can locate the wreckage from the missing flight within a 55-day period.

WUSF will be providing the latest news and information on coronavirus in Tampa Bay and across the state. Here are the latest developments:Total positive…

Agricultural workers recount working in extreme heat while expecting. Advocates say more protections are needed to ensure the health and well-being of the expectant moms and their babies.

January 1st is Public Domain Day. That's the day creative works over a certain age enter the public domain.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ann Veneman, President George W. Bush's agriculture secretary, about the relationship between farmers and the federal government.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Brian Deese, director of the White House National Economic Council, about what the Biden administration is doing to take on inflation.

There's a new setback for New York City's bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. New York's Public Authorities Control Board announced Monday that it would not approve $300 million in funding for a new sports stadium on Manhattan's lower east side -- the centerpiece of the city's Olympic bid.

Multiple counts of rape and kidnapping charges have been filed against Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive for about a decade. The women held hostage in his house escaped earlier this week. Two are now at home with family while the third remains in the hospital.

Clint Eastwood's film recounts the based-on-a-true-story tale of a Los Angeles woman's struggle to find her missing son — after police return the wrong child to her. David Edelstein has a review.

In the last two years, Denver has seen more than 40,000 migrants arrive, many on buses chartered by Texas' governor.

Women will be a key voting group in this tight presidential election. This weekend, the Obama campaign is hosting two summits for women voters in Florida. Guest host Linda Wertheimer speaks with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman for the Democratic National Committee and Congresswoman for Florida's 20th District, about the issues at hand.

Rwanda is widely believed to be backing the rebel group that's taken over much of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the past two months. The DRC has asked groups to sever ties with Rwanda.

Republicans made concessions for Alaska to get Sen. Lisa Murkowski to cast the deciding vote approving the GOP's sweeping tax and spending bill. Do her constituents think she got a good deal?

It's no secret that acrimony in America is high. And now, more Americans say violence might be necessary to get the country back on track.