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Wouk was famous for writing The Winds of War, Marjorie Morningstar and The Caine Mutiny, which won a Pulitzer Prize. He also helped popularize themes that writers like Philip Roth later tackled.

State GOP chairman Sen. Joe Gruters says it could add more than $600 million a year to Florida's economy, which has taken a hit during the coronavirus pandemic.

Many students said they thought they heard Valentine's Day balloons popping. Instead, it was a gunman at a South Florida high school. Seventeen people were killed and a former student was arrested.

Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi has declared a state of emergency over gender violence on the island. Human rights activists have been seeking such a declaration for years.

President Biden is expected to sign on Wednesday an order pausing oil and gas drilling on federal land. It's one of several climate-focused executive actions he will make official.

Several politicians and leaders across the greater Tampa Bay region issued statements expressing relief following the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin.

While COVID-19 passports could be used to show people have been vaccinated, ban supporters say the plan strikes a “delicate balance” between protecting people and civil liberties.

A little-known part of the Affordable Care Act pays primary care doctors to help overweight seniors lose weight. So why aren't more seniors taking advantage of the free weight loss counseling?

Gains with suburban voters helped Joe Biden win the presidency. Suburbs were long GOP terrain, and their move left accelerated with Donald Trump's rise. We check in on Pennsylvania suburban voters.

On her new album, the restless Italian opera star sings virtuoso music composed for Farinelli, the greatest of the baroque castratos.

Farmworker advocates are accusing the U.S. Department of Agriculture of trying to cut the wages of farmworkers who come to the U.S. on temporary guest worker visas.

Joe Biden has picked Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. The pick of a running mate from California is unusual, since candidates usually balance their ticket with someone from a swing state.

Manhattan's district attorney has convened a grand jury to decide whether to indict former President Trump. The DA may have found evidence of a crime — either by Trump or someone close to him.

Germany reportedly offered to build $1 billion worth of infrastructure to import American gas if the U.S. lifts sanctions on a controversial pipeline that would carry Russian gas to Germany.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Diane Orentlicher, international law professor at American University, about the International Criminal Court's investigation into war crimes in Israel and Gaza.

Five years ago, to curb the worst HIV outbreak in the U.S., rural Scott County Indiana approved a needle exchange so drug abusers had access to clean needles. Now, it may close the exchange.

The Trump administration is now allowing liquefied natural gas to be transported by rail anywhere in the country, including major cities. Critics worry about accidents and catastrophic explosions.

Iranian Americans say they're worried about traveling abroad after dozens of U.S. citizens and legal residents of Iranian descent were held for questioning at a border crossing near Seattle.

Archaeologists and historians announce that they've identified at least two sites consistent with mass graves in Tulsa, site of race riots in 1921 that had been pushed to the margins of history.

NPR international correspondent Lauren Frayer shares a conversation that never made it into a piece but has stuck with her since she taped it, with a man whose wife was the alleged victim of a priest.

President Biden met with the family of George Floyd Tuesday. He hoped to mark the first anniversary of Floyd's murder with passage of a policing bill, but it remains in limbo on Capitol Hill.

The lawsuit marks the first major action from the Biden administration to combat a series of new restrictive voting measures passed by Republican-led state legislatures.

A West Virginia school teachers strike was just hours old when lawmakers voted to postpone a bill that teachers opposed, effectively killing it.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service about the daunting task of finding new homes for thousands of Afghan refugees.

When Jon Stewart announced on Tuesday that he is leaving the host chair of The Daily Show on Comedy Central later this year, he prompted great dismay among his many fans. The show has influenced a generation of young people — especially liberals and Democrats — and changed how they view both the news and politics.