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Key West commissioners postponed renewing a contract with the Colllege of the Florida Keys that linked cruise ships to increased turbidity in the island's shallow port.

Many expectant moms face a weird question when it comes to a blood test for fetal genetic anomalies: Would you like to pay cash now? It could be a lot cheaper than using your insurance.

College sports are in the middle of a financial arms race as schools race to pay their athletes increasingly lucrative name, image and likeness deals.

The debate over how much teachers and parents should be responsible for paying for school supplies is being enflamed this year by rising costs, tariffs and less funding for public education.

People get a lot wrong when it comes to paying for vacation, say travel experts, and that can cost serious cash. Here’s how to plan a trip that’s safe, adventurous and under budget.

The Department of Education has a list of professions approved to get a higher borrowing limit to pay for their advanced degrees.

Jesús Morales continues to go viral for paying California day laborers to take the day off and go with him to Disneyland instead.

Many public school teachers are struggling to afford living in their own communities, and advocates say it’s kids who end up paying the price.

Trump's Justice Department created a nearly $1.8 billion fund to pay “reparations” to people who were prosecuted by former President Joe Biden's administration.

The indictment alleges that the civil rights group violated federal law by paying its network of informants in extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan.

Iranians buying more than 110 liters (roughly 29 gallons) of gasoline a month will now have to pay a higher fee for gas.

In Hernando County, the Withlacoochee River is finally starting to go down, but it’s going to take some time for floodwaters to recede. Last week, the river crested at almost 20 feet.

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant discuss the Super Bowl, more Super Bowl and, finally, the Super Bowl.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee holds a hearing on BP's corrosion problems in Alaska. A leak forced the shutdown of half the Prudhoe Bay oil field. Committee Chairman Joe Barton says evidence indicates the problem was caused by BP's poor maintenance of the pipeline.

After five years, just 12 percent of people diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer saw their tumors grow by 3 millimeters or more, a study found. And in some people, the tumors shrank.

Local anti-poverty groups have had to scramble and scale back this year as the Trump administration targeted safety-net programs. They are bracing for what may come next.

George Saunders has long been praised in literary circles for his short stories that deftly combine the absurd with the mundane. But now the author has caught mainstream attention with his newest collection, Tenth of December.

The explorer's life plays out like an adventure film. But before she ever went diving with great whites, she was cheering for the Miami Dolphins — until a required science course changed her plans.

In 1962, 11-year-old Carlos Eire was one of thousands of children airlifted out of Cuba and sent to Florida to escape Fidel Castro's regime. His parents thought he'd return when Castro was deposed — but he never went home again. Eire recounts the experience in a new memoir.

"My ability to see what's going on in a room or analyze what's going on inside a person comes from my own doubts about what's going on inside myself," he says. Hare's memoir is The Blue Touch Paper.

Rapper Snoop Dogg's latest release, a collaboration with Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, is a recent example of urban desi, which blends South Asian pop culture with American hip-hop. Originating in the U.K., the style of music is spreading in the U.S. and India.

Journalist Bill Wasik and his veterinarian wife, Monica Murphy, have teamed up for a new book on the cultural and scientific history of rabies. Rabies causes terrible suffering — but it's fascinating to examine the way the virus is perfectly engineered to spread itself.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec by Jaques Tardi features a beautiful, gun-wielding detective and a horrifying prehistoric monster. Author Rosecrans Baldwin explains why this is no ordinary comic book. Do you have a favorite graphic novel? Tell us in the comments.

Author Monica Ali spent an entire year poking around "below stairs" in five London Hotel restaurants before she started writing latest novel.

Little green worms are crawling all over the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas. Scientists attribute the outbreak of cankerworms, or inchworms, to recent heavy rains.