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A maternity hospital in Ukraine was hit with direct strike. A survey takes the pulse of the professionals responsible for voting in America. Kids under 5 still aren't eligible for COVID-19 vaccines.

This week, “Florida Matters Live & Local” is revisiting some of our best conversations from the year.

Historian Jeff Shesol recalls the early days of the space program, when Cold War fears ruled and no one knew if John Glenn would survive America's first orbital flight. Originally broadcast June 2021.

The humorist has expanded his podcast series into a book of essays on the historical figures (and objects, like station wagons, and empires, like Prussia) that didn't get enough love the first time.

It's been 50 years since Bowie performed as his alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The film, Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars, has recently been reissued. Originally broadcast in 2002.

Nearly half of Guatemala's population identifies as indigenous, yet the most high profile indigenous Presidential candidate is not on the ballot and Guatemala has never had a native president

Best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford's new novel follows two families living in a grand Edwardian manor. She tells NPR that Downton-style dramas are a way of encapsulating life in one house.

Chris Gagin, former chairman for the Republican Party in Ohio's Belmont County, stands by his choice to resign after President Trump appeared to back Russian President Putin at a Helsinki conference.

Young people between the ages of 18 and 35 spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year. NPR asked some in this group how brands and corporations can get their attention.

An underground network of feminists and activists developed new models of care for abortion that eventually helped legalize abortion in countries across Latin America.

A Stand Your Ground-related bill passed the Florida Senate Wednesday, but not without some opposition.

After police hauled away a computer programmer, his wife was left to discover who her husband really was — a mysterious political blogger. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July 27, 2023.)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo sifts through failed marriages, memory and the bonds between parents and children in his latest novel.

The British pop singer talks about her post-breakup empowerment anthem and its colorful, all-female music video.

The few female scientists at MIT in the late 20th century found themselves faced with hurdles related to their gender rather than their research. So they did what scientists do: they quantified it.

Federal officials will allow private Medicare insurance plans to require patients who are candidates for certain expensive drugs to try cheaper drugs first.

What happens when an artist you count on to be one way suddenly isn't? For writer Hanif Abdurraquib, appreciating the left-turn album The Center Won't Hold has meant letting go of years of nostalgia.

The governors of New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming assess President-elect Donald Trump's incoming agenda -- from energy to immigration.

It wasn't immediately clear what legal authority Trump would have to execute his proposals, and they would likely be met by fierce resistance from Palestinians and from regional Arab countries.

At Baltimore's Renaissance Academy High School, mentors help students cope with the trauma in their daily lives. The principal says the aim is not just to keep boys in school, but to keep them alive.

After a campaign that seemingly has lasted years, the two main candidates for U.S. Senate finally met for a debate. Monday night's match in Orlando…

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: In Listen to the Earth, James Grant takes us aboard Apollo 11 — from liftoff, through orbit, all the way to the lunar surface. Drawing from NASA transcripts, environmental texts, and his own poetic reflections, Grant’s music becomes a call to witness our planet’s beauty from space — and to care for it with everything we’ve got.Then: Inspired by a Mark Rothko painting, Anna Clyne’s Color Field imagines sound as color and color as sound — with musical movements tied to yellow, red, and orange. Each section draws from synesthesia and Scriabin’s color-pitch associations, blending warmth, fire, and calm into a vivid, sonic canvas.

Daniel Foote, a former American diplomat who was appointed as the special envoy to Haiti after the president was assassinated, speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the current crisis in Haiti.

Poet and playwright Tess Taylor breaks down her diverse summer reading list, which includes a biography of Edgar Allen Poe, a poetry collection — and even a book about the act of reading.

A look at the second season of Starstruck, the romantic comedy series streaming on HBO Max.