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The agency's director, James Comey, said Thursday that he is closely monitoring the investigation. He also made unusually passionate remarks about violent crime in America.

As political polarization deepens, Sarasota-based nonprofit Conversations Across the Aisle (CATA) brings together people from across the political spectrum for facilitated dinners designed to replace debate with curiosity and understanding.

Corn dogs, deep-fried Twinkies, butter sculptures and influenza virus? Here’s why state fairs could be potential breeding grounds for viral mutation.

Florida is among at least four states that have made most children eligible for taxpayer-funded scholarships to private schools — and are seeing more families using the programs than planned.

The billionaire founder of the Chinese Internet giant hasn't been seen in public in months after criticizing government regulators.

Alexandra Tanner's debut novel, Worry, centers two sisters in their 20s struggling with the love, anxieties and truths that they hold about each other.

The Lightning closed the Stanley Cup series to 2-1 after losing 7-0 in Game 2 on Saturday night.

Business and insurance groups have said Florida is plagued by excessive litigation that drives up costs.

Once on the brink of extinction, the Mexican wolf population is ‘booming’ in Arizona and New Mexico.

New space companies are touting space tourism. But so far the final frontier has been the playground of the rich or famous, plus a few everyday folks who had a bit of luck.

President Obama announced Thursday he has abandoned his plan to withdraw nearly all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of his presidency.

Federal officials released prescription histories of hundreds of thousands of doctors and identified the most common and costly drugs. Medicare spent the most on a purple pill for heartburn.

After President Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged to lead a group of mayors, governors and CEOs in cutting emissions according to the Paris framework. And now Bloomberg also has a film out documenting coal's rise and fall in America, From the Ashes.

Set in 1960s New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces centers around Ignatius J. Reilly, a glutton in a city known for its cuisine. A new cookbook looks at the food central to the heralded comedic novel.

David Greenberger travels the country collecting stories of older people. Here he retells the tale of Gene Weaver, a retired pattern maker in Chattanooga, Tenn. Among the odd things Weaver was asked to make from wood was a new peg leg, as well as a fake hand for a gambler. Weaver refused to make either.

A contemporary brass band that grew out of one of Nashville's historically Black universities is helping to expand the lost musical identity of the country capital.

The decision reversed decades of precedent upheld over the years by narrow court majorities that included Republican-appointed justices.

Texas abortion bans focused attention on the state's already high maternal mortality rate. Proposed legislation could let otherwise uninsured women stay on Medicaid up to a year after childbirth.

The inmate, John Henry Ramirez, was in a small cell steps from the death chamber when he was told of the reprieve. He had asked to have a pastor touch him and vocalize prayers when he was executed.

While in power, former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte ordered the murder of thousands of people without trial. Journalist Patricia Evangelista chronicles the leader's bloody 'war on drugs' in her memoir "Some People Need Killing."

When anthropologist Renato Rosaldo went to live with a Philippine tribe that was known for beheading people, he couldn't grasp the emotion that fueled this violence. Then his wife suddenly died.

Assumptions that older people are one big, frail, homogenous group can lead to problems, says the author of Elderhood.

More than 60 journalists and media workers have been killed so far, most of them Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Gaza's journalists have reported while also suffering personal losses.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Greg Miller, a licensed professional counselor with Thriveworks in New Jersey, about the real emotional toll that can come from sports fandom.

The Norwegian producer has made beats for artists like Kanye West and Ariana Grande. For his debut album, 9, he says he wanted to recapture the feeling of discovering his own sound for the first time.