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The Florida Department of Environmental Protection lashed out at a federal proposal aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, saying it "places the reliability, affordability and capacity of the nation's energy supply at risk."

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks Molly McPherson, a crisis communication manager, about Lizzo's reputation in light of the artist's response to sexual harassment allegations.

The Biden administration this week urged a federal judge to reject a challenge by Florida and other states to an overhaul of the National Flood Insurance Program that has led to higher premiums for many property owners.

Large employers like the Miami-Dade school district pay for employees' health insurance, but are often forbidden from knowing how much providers charge and insurers pay for care.

There's little to surprise in this story, especially if you know a bit about the subject's life and his ideas. But author Jim Ottaviani finds a nice balance between the personal and the theoretical.

In an interview with NPR about her new book, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said she made an effort to avoid "toxic" and "trashy" Washington — and that she'll campaign for Trump in 2020.

Spoiler alert: Cecil Castellucci never became a filmmaker, despite her Hollywood dreams. But her new graphic memoir winningly recounts how she found her way as a novelist and comics writer.

Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who has been investigating criminal allegations against President Biden's son Hunter has been named a special counsel. He made the request on Tuesday.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks to Michael McCarthy, senior writer with Front Office Sports, about ESPN partnering with PENN Entertainment, a casino company, to create ESPN Bet.

Amid multiple excessive heat warnings, the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district is emphasizing heat protocols for athletes and students who do activities outside as the new year begins.

The company says its factory near Rocky Mount, North Carolina, makes nearly 25% of Pfizer's sterile injectable medicines used in U.S. hospitals.

Since his purchase of the social media platform, Musk has alluded to transforming Twitter into an "everything app" called "X," akin to the WeChat app in China.

Ron Hansen's latest novel, A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion, fictionalizes an infamous crime of sexual transgression. In 1927, Ruth Snyder killed her husband, Albert, after falling in love with a lingerie salesman. Hansen's sexy fictionalization of the real-life murder sizzles with the spirit of the Roaring '20s.

The White House is concerned about the economic and national security risks posed by artificial intelligence and is working on new executive actions to try to establish some guardrails for AI.

After a week of controversy, President Trump sought to energize himself and his supporters at a rally in Florida on Saturday, staged by his campaign operation.

Since 1955, 13 Atlantic storm names beginning with “I” have been retired, according to the National Weather Service. That happens when a storm’s death toll or destruction is so severe that using its name again would be insensitive.

Florida continues to pour millions of dollars in federal funds into communities that lack strong internet infrastructure, but that doesn't mean it's accessible to the people who live there. Cheri Coryea, with the Patterson Foundation’s Digital Access for All Initiative, is working to change that.

North Carolina continues to set coronavirus records, and minority communities have been hit particularly hard. More than a third of the state's cases are among Latinx communities.

The appeals court backs restricting the use of mifepristone, a pill used in medication abortions. But previous action by the Supreme Court means the status quo holds for now.

Meta's new social media platform Threads had a rocket-like start when it launched a month ago as a challenger to X, formerly known as Twitter. But it's hard to tell which platform will dominate.

Johnny Dwyer's book tells the amazing, horrifying story of Chucky Taylor, son of the infamous Liberian dictator Charles Taylor. But flat writing and unforthcoming subjects make it a difficult read.

When Christopher McCandless died in the wilds of Alaska, his story became famous all over the world. A new memoir by his sister Carine reveals some of the reasons he chose to walk away from the world.

In Abigail Thomas' What Comes Next and How to Like It, the aging process robs the 70-something of beauty and energy. In H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald trains a goshawk after her father dies.

A new biography of the Russian political prankster/author/revolutionary Edward Limonov asks what turns out to be an unanswerable question: What's Limonov thinking, and what does he really want?

In The Stranger, Albert Camus' antihero Meursault famously killed a nameless Arab; Algerian writer Kamel Daoud's new novel reworks Camus from the point of view of the murdered man's brother.