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Florida House Speaker Jose Oliva and his allies have loudly contended during the past two years that there’s too much government interference in health...

The Associated PressFederal investigators said Monday that they have started analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a small plane, bound for Albert…

If the past is any indication, worsening threats from climate change, like rising seas in South Florida, could take a larger toll on the poor as people...

In response to a string of suicides in the Air Force, every base is holding a one day stand down, where airmen can learn and talk about mental health...

More than 40 percent of Florida nursing homes are asking health-care regulators for more time to meet backup-power requirements pushed by Gov. Rick...

The University of South Florida Board of Trustees have selected Steven Currall as the next System president.Currall, 60, is the Provost/Vice President for…

The state Agency for Health Care Administration has backtracked on its decision to cut Medicaid reimbursement rates for therapists who mostly work with…

President Trump upset the architectural world in February when he proposed an executive order mandating traditional, classical architecture for new federal buildings. That order is now a reality.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with server Maria Buenrostro about the toll the pandemic has taken on her industry as Los Angeles makes an $800 stipend available to 4,000 food service workers.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rick Barron, elections director in Fulton County, Ga., about the state's runoff elections for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday.

In a secret recording, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr issued a dire warning about the coronavirus to a private audience three weeks ago. He has not been so frank in public.

The drugs only need to be taken a few times a year — and may soon be available in many parts of the world. Patients say they are more convenient and less stigmatizing.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sarah McKeon, deputy general manager of New Jersey Airports at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, about keeping airports safe during a surge in air travel.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Justin Phillips, a food writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, about the potential demise of many Black-owned restaurants in the Bay Area.

Heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather are making people sick and, increasingly, killing people. A key report by global physicians says fossil fuels are to blame.

Rompan Todo is a new Netflix six-part documentary series that explores the socio-political history of rock music in Latin America from its genesis in the 1960s to the present.

Over the last 20 years, the number of sheep in the U.S. has been cut in half. Today, the domestic sheep herd is one-tenth the size it was during World War II. Consumers are eating less lamb and wearing less wool these days. Those trends have left ranchers to wonder: When are we going to hit bottom?

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson about how armed protesters arrived at her home and shouted obscenities as she was putting up Christmas decorations with her son.

President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday key members of his team that will advise him on the coronavirus crisis — the biggest challenge he will face when he enters the White House.

The legislation extending aid to unemployed, providing money for vaccine distribution and a round of $600 stimulus checks was attached to an annual government funding bill that tacked on other items.

The House is set to vote Monday to increase federal direct payments included in the pandemic relief bill to $2,000 — in a move likely to die in the Senate. President Trump supports the measure.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Christina Ghaly, director for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, about surging coronavirus cases in her county.

Mathematical modeling suggests that the mutations in this variant make the virus more transmissible. What does that mean for preventive measures — and the new vaccines?

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ravi Perry, chair of the political science department at Howard University, about the diversity of Joe Biden's cabinet and representation of civil rights organizations.

The latest target was a statue of Sebastián de Belalcázar, a Spanish conquistador who founded two Colombian cities and led a military campaign that killed and enslaved thousands of Indigenous people.