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At a meeting Tuesday, county leaders discussed the plans, which include taking steps to ensure residents’ water is safe from the dangers of 1,4 Dioxane.

Dr. Wahid Majrooh tells NPR that millions of dollars in aid has been frozen, some health workers are leaving the country and there's a shortage of key medical supplies.

Investigators say Paul Reinhart was so upset over the loss of his job and pending divorce that he fatally shot the couple’s sons on May 4 before setting fire to the family’s vacation home near Suwannee and fatally shooting himself.

"Health freedom" advocates have still complained that the hospital limited experimental treatments such as ivermectin.

Public lands managed by the South Florida Water Management District in Lee and Collier counties remain so dangerous more than two weeks after Hurricane Ian that, above or below water, the areas will be closed for the foreseeable future.

Frances Glessner Lee is known to many as the "mother of forensic science" for her work training policemen in crime scene investigation in the 1940s and 50s using uncanny dollhouse crime scenes.

At North Korea's first Workers' Party Congress in 36 years, Kim declares "unprecedented results" in recent nuclear and missile tests. He's shown greater willingness to speak publicly than his father.

Big insurance companies are opening their own doctors' offices and clinics — a strategy that has previously met with mixed results.

Today marks 100 years since the birth of Louis Leakey, the patriarch of the first family of human fossils. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for National Geographic Radio Expeditions.

At the Pittsburgh Sword Fighters club, members are asked to leave their politics at the door, a rule that has led to closer relationships and more learning from one another.

Three years ago, councilmembers in Washington, D.C., approved a tax hike on the wealthy as a way to raise the wages of child care workers. It's led to big gains for the city's child care workforce.

Chrissy Lovett had just opened Maui Ocean Adventures when a deadly wildfire swept through Lahaina in 2023, burning up the entire business. A year and half later, they're finally back in the water.

The singer makes four simple words into an Escher-esque puzzle built on loops and layers of her voice.

One of the biggest jazz singles of all time, "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, was recorded 65 years ago today. Brubeck's son is sharing his father's archive online.

Some of the biggest names in science fiction right now — like The Martian author Andy Weir — are writing what's called hard sci-fi, based on real-world science and a vision of hope for the future.

Read excerpts of Florence Whitebread's "Prairie Diary" recollecting her day in Kansas, Oct. 11, 2001.

The debut short-story collection by Nigerian writer and Jesuit priest Uwem Akpan offers a sobering view of a world in which atrocity is commonplace, and the unthinkable is the everyday.

The length of the average car loan isn't just creeping up, it's leaping up. Nearly 40 percent of people secure car loans that take more than five years to pay off. The trend has some analysts alarmed.

Smith's massive new essay collection covers a wide assortment of topics, but critic Maureen Corrigan says Feel Free is strongest when it focuses on art and identity.

Janny Scott, a biographer and award-winning reporter for The New York Times, has written a vivid and penetrating memoir about her own illustrious family.

A recent Gallup report found Gen Z students rank affordability and career preparedness as the most important factors when considering where to pursue higher education.

More than 5,000 people in Britain converted to Islam last year. That's an average of 14 a day, and most of them are women, including Lauren Booth, Tony Blair's sister-in-law. Academic studies in the U.K. have concluded that the idea that these conversions are driven mostly by marriage is a myth, and that most converts are simply attracted by the values of Islam. But there's a paradox here. In a controversial speech this week, Britain's first female Muslim Cabinet minister complained of growing intolerance toward Muslims in the U.K.

More than a decade after his debut, We the Animals, Justin Torres returns with a novel that centers on a deathbed conversation between two friends about the distortions and erasures of queer history.

A Navy investigation into the suicide of a sailor on the USS Roosevelt reveals a toxic culture aboard the carrier.

The Florida Senate has approved wide-ranging changes to the state’s higher education system. It’s a top priority of Senate President Joe Negron. But...