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In South Florida, people with health insurance are the target of "body brokers" who can earn lucrative kickbacks — $500 per week — for referring vulnerable patients to centers that bilk insurers.

Expanding abortion access has broad bipartisan support, according to the KFF survey, which polled women of reproductive age. It also finds many women wouldn't know how to get an abortion now.

Meta and the states that sued the company have agreed to a $17 billion settlement. And, nuclear regulators are preparing to abandon a decades-old radiation safety rule.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Saladin K. Patterson about the coming-of-age comedy that gives its own compelling storyline.

The bill would make it prohibitively expensive for most citizens to fight changes to a county's comprehensive growth plans.

The new health law lets seniors get free wellness check ups, starting in 2011. But there are a lot of questions about whether they'll take advantage of them, or what role doctors will play in promoting them.

Seventy percent of the money for general election ads has been spent in just seven states. Here's what the campaigns are focused on.

The 78-year-old, who's considered one of the greatest artists in Spanish music history, is stepping away from the stage. For some fans, the move is bittersweet.

The acclaimed jazz pianist and Harvard music professor talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the Vijay Iyer Sextet's new album, Far From Over, and the politics that inspired it.

In the first two months of the war in Ukraine, 15,000 babies were born. Their parents are raising the next generation of Ukrainians — children now as old as the war.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap of the Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap about their new album Fenian.

Israel issues more evacuation orders in Gaza after deadly airstrike. Russians prepare for counterattack after Ukraine’s surprise offensive. The Paris Olympics wrap up with a lavish closing ceremony.

The Florida governor has made the environment a priority, dedicating millions to water quality and coastal infrastructure. But critics say he ignores the biggest threat: carbon emissions.

For decades, Irish nuns ran homes for unwed mothers. Beneath one of them, a ghastly discovery: 796 babies buried in a septic tank. Forensics experts are now unearthing Ireland's past.

Morning Edition spoke to North Dakota farmer Edd Goerger about same-sex marriage recently. At that point, he'd expressed ambivalence; now, David Greene gets Goerger's take on Friday's big ruling.

One hundred years ago, Brandeis became the first Jewish justice on the Supreme Court. Author Jeffrey Rosen says that Brandeis was also the most far-seeing progressive justice of the 20th century.

In Michigan, President Trump held his first rally since the end of the Mueller investigation. Also, the latest on Venezuelans fleeing to Colombia and Brexit turmoil.

Ciment met her husband in the 1970s. At the time of their first kiss, he was a married father of two; she was his art student. In her memoir Consent she reconsiders the origin story of their marriage.

Dick Cavett didn't do interviews — he held conversations. And in the 1960s and '70s, he held conversations with the likes of Katharine Hepburn, John Lennon, Richard Nixon and Groucho Marx. Cavett reflects on his long television career in his new book, Talk Show.

Dr. Richard Ferber is best known for his advice to parents about children and sleep. He advised that letting babies cry themselves to sleep could be a necessary step in getting young children to sleep in their own beds. But now Ferber is out with a new book reexamining his original theory. Allan Coukell of member station WBUR reports.

The Beat Generation icon and owner of City Lights bookstore and press in San Francisco is still writing. He celebrates his centennial March 24, and his new autobiographical novel is out now.

A new global study from the Reuters Institute at Oxford University confirms: Many people are choosing to avoid the news, especially about the war in Ukraine and, in the U.S., also about politics and climate change.

Democratic lawmakers are alarmed about a proposed amendment that requires school staff to notify parents within six weeks of the child’s disclosure even if officials think the student would face abuse, abandonment or neglect as a result.

The Hillsborough County Commission approved a cost-sharing agreement for road improvements along Falkenburg Road in Brandon for a new Bass Pro Shop.The…

International students could once stay as long as they needed to complete their college degrees, but that's changing, and the restrictions could cut into college budgets.