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Nash says it took her a long time to see her comedic side as a gift, but she finally embraced it. Now her role as Nurse DiDi in the HBO comedy series has opened the door to more serious opportunities.

Elon Musk cleans house after Twitter deal closes. Death toll is rising as protests in Iran gain momentum. Houston Astros are favored as they take on the Philadelphia Phillies in World Series opener.

Walgreens says about a quarter of its stores are unprofitable. Big pharmacy chains are struggling with growing retail competition and lower prescription payouts.

More than 1,300 residents of one central Florida city will receive an unexpected letter in the mail about a Thanksgiving gift made by a Lakeland…

Vyvyan Evans' new book about the rise of emojis casts the little icons as part of human language's long-running struggle to evolve — but too often it reads like a textbook, didactic and dry.

Florida and other states use the rate of people who have tested positive for the virus for the first time as one of several indicators of how prevalent the virus is in the state.

The daughter of a Tamil revolutionary, Sri Lankan M.I.A. is now a rap sensation in England. The 28-year-old is known as much for her music as her life story. She combines the rhythms of global cultures with lyrics that some say incite revolution. Critic Oliver Wang reviews her CD Arular.

A number of federal agencies have reopened their offer to workers to resign now in exchange for pay and benefits through the end of September. In many cases, workers have just a week or two to decide.

60 years after Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, we hear from one of the men who helped him write it, his friend and attorney Clarence B. Jones.

60 years after Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, we hear from one of the men who helped him write it, his friend and attorney Clarence B. Jones.

While removing former President Trump from social media has led to a significant decrease in election-related disinformation, online falsehoods about the election and vaccines continue to flourish.

NPR spoke with 30 small groups of people around the country about what they'd want other people to understand about their community — and what they want to understand about others

As the courts consider various lawsuits against drugmakers, researchers estimate what opioid addiction is costing our economy and what it would take to end the crisis.

Adultery is a crime in New York State. For more than 100 years it's been a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 90 days in jail. Legislation to overturn that now sits on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk.

In an interview with the Tampa Bay Times, CEO Ken Babby says the economics behind the $2.3 project are settled after local approvals of a non-binding MOU, with the focus now on nailing down unresolved issues.

There's no longer a need to wonder what your pets would say if they could talk. A voiceover artist who calls himself The Rxck Stxr adds voices to pet videos submitted by his fans on social media.

Keeping students off their devices is the new norm in many schools. We talked to students and educators at one Kentucky school to see how it's working.

(B-R-FIVE-FOUR-NINE) is the latest band that everyone is saying will save Nashville from overproduced mediocrity. BR5-49 got its' start playing in a boot store on a makeshift stage...tearing through the kind of honkey tonk that would make Ernest Tubb proud. The band is also credited with helping to revive a rundown neighborhood of Nashville. Now the band is up for a Grammy for Best Performance by a Country Duo or Group. Steve Lickteig

Pregnant women in prison face difficult circumstances, and data on their pregnancies has been scarce. New research lays the groundwork for addressing this neglected public health issue.

Rodrigues island's "cafe marron" plant has been presumed extinct for scores of years. Then, one day, a little boy told his teacher that the plant lived, near his house. Suddenly, an obscure, skinny little bush that nobody had noticed became an international treasure and the focus of a 20-year effort to preserve it.

New Hampshire has a reputation for strong voter participation and independents. It's easy to get on the ballot, and the state has had a better track record of picking GOP nominees in recent years.

While Gov. Rick Scott's administration has reached agreement with the federal government on as much as $1.5 billion for the Low Income Pool program, the...

NPR's Scott Simon recalls a First Amendment case from the late 1970s involving the rights of a neo-Nazi group to march through a predominantly Jewish suburb of Chicago.