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A TikTok video claimed Biden granted almost 500,000 Venezuelan migrants voting rights, but that’s inaccurate. TPS recipients do not automatically become U.S. citizens, however, and only citizens can vote in federal elections.

Dallas singer 4batz rose from obscurity to a breathlessly awaited debut in barely a year — but his arrival is part of a tense exchange between hip-hop and R&B more than a decade in the making.

If passed, it would amend the state constitution to allow larger tax breaks for homeowners by tying an exemption to yearly inflation.

Tuesday’s debate between the current vice president and former president was a clear contrast from the June debate that forced President Biden from the race.

An NPR investigation finds that many people with VA loans who got a COVID forbearance are at risk of losing their homes. The VA has a fix, but it could be too late unless it halts foreclosures.

Organizations that collect data on mass shootings each use their own definitions for them — some of which are broad such as incidents in which at least four people are injured or killed. Other databases use a narrower definition that includes at least four deaths.

The country's nuclear safety agency raised the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident to a Level 5 out of 7, putting it on par with the Three Mile Island accident. Emergency workers struggled to cool overheated fuel rods at the plant, while Japanese officials admitted the quake and tsunami had overwhelmed the government and slowed its response to the nuclear problems.

The country's nuclear safety agency raised the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident to a Level 5 out of 7, putting it on par with the Three Mile Island accident. Emergency workers struggled to cool overheated fuel rods at the plant, while Japanese officials admitted the quake and tsunami had overwhelmed the government and slowed its response to the nuclear problems.

The monument’s opponents said it implicitly condoned an era of slavery and white supremacy.

La Corporación de Desarrollo Comunitario del Área Universitaria (Área Universitaria CDC) recibió una subvención de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) para abordar los problemas de aguas pluviales y alcantarillado del vecindario. Ahora, el proyecto está en suspenso.

It's called parametric insurance, it offers protection for climate-related wage losses and it's gaining ground in India.

Helene made landfall late on Thursday in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 Hurricane. It weakened Friday morning to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph.

Sarasota should monitor Milton's track closely. Milton could come ashore a bit more south than previously forecast.

Milton is again a Category 5 hurricane, and it has made a turn to the northeast. Milton´s forecast still calls for a powerful hurricane to reach the west coast of Florida late Wednesday or very early Thursday.

Biden is now the third president to pardon a relative, after Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. Here's a look at the commonplace — yet often controversial — presidential power.

Milton is starting to leave northern Yucatán and head to Florida. It will move a bit faster today, and the powerful hurricane will make landfall in Tampa Bay around midnight Thursday.

From candidate swaps to assassination attempts, the final months of the campaign has been a whirlwind. Here's why the outcome is so consequential.

Opening Nov. 17 at Sarasota Art Museum is an exhibition titled “Contemplating Vermeer.” Artist Joe Fig created 16 new paintings that pays homage to the 17th century painter and an international exhibit that featured Vermeer's work.

Only four teams remain in the hunt for the Super Bowl — the Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders — but there are plenty of narratives to go around.

Research conducted at the height of the 2020 election reveals new details about how Facebook's algorithms handle political content. But it suggests there are no easy fixes to political polarization.

Pope Francis was a master of making emotional connections. He was, at heart, a pastor to wounded souls. Here are some of the most memorable moments of Pope Francis' papacy.

After starting with WUSF while still a student at USF in the 1980s, WSMR music director and host Russell Gant is retiring on Wednesday after 42 years.

After starting as a volunteer with WUSF while still a student at USF in the 1980s, WSMR music director and host Russell Gant is retiring on Wednesday after 42 years.

NPR's Hannah Chinn and Emily Kwong talk about the microbes behind great-tasting chocolate, possible reasons for daytime drowsiness, and a curious observation about the poop of seabirds.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with our regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times, about the Senate Republican health care bill, the special election in Georgia, and the latest on the investigations into the Trump administration and Russia.