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An initial round of voting June 28 saw no candidate get over 50% of the vote, forcing the runoff. The candidates are running to replace the late president, who was killed in a helicopter crash.

President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive in Confederate territory and drove it north while destroying railroad tracks and telegraph lines.

He said "we do need to do something this year" to help with increased costs for repairs and property insurance. The 2025 regular legislative session begins in March.

Florida’s currently “disjointed and inconsistent” framework for choosing, funding and evaluating the impact of water projects isn’t good fiscal stewardship, according to Florida TaxWatch.

Many people have written off the 2024 hurricane season as a bust. But experts say now more than ever, it's important to keep your guard up.

Every year, millions of visitors come to Yellowstone National Park to see bison roam free. The Park says there's room for more — but the neighboring state of Montana is threatening to sue.

Iowa has gone first in the presidential nominating season for a long time — over half a century. But for Iowa's youngest voters, this historic political tradition is still very new.

For many Republican Iowa voters, the caucus is the first opportunity to weigh in on who they want to be their nominee for the 2024 presidential race.

More than 4,000 teaching positions need to be filled across Florida. In the greater Tampa Bay region, there's about 880 vacancies.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Amir Khalil, an Egyptian veterinarian who is part of a team at Four Paws, an organization that rescues animals from war zones, is working to save animals from zoos in Gaza.

"Shoppers will have fewer choices and less competition, and, without a competitive marketplace, they will pay higher prices at the grocery store," Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson said.

Luke "The Nuke" Littler began the World Darts Championship ranked 164th in the world. The 16-year-old blazed through each match, finally losing to the world's No. 1-ranked player, Luke Humphries.

Writer Annie Rauwerda makes a habit of getting lost among the seemingly endless digital archives of Wikipedia.

Popular physicist Brian Greene just opened the virtual doors to his World Science U, a resource for those who want to know more. Commentator Adam Frank says it's worth the trip.

Japan dropped its highest-level tsunami alert, issued following a series of major earthquakes, but told residents of coastal areas not to return to their homes as deadly waves could still come.

The Supreme Court has wrestled with state laws that could affect how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users. The cases are among several this term in which the justices could set standards for free speech in the digital age.

We find a first mention of Donald Trump deep in the NPR archives from the opening of Trump Tower in 1983.

A new study shows that nearly 8,000 e-bike riders sought hospital care for head injuries in 2022. It's a huge increase and the majority of the injured riders were not wearing helmets.

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has recently been directing attacks at Vice President Kamala Harris as she highlights concerns about President Biden's age.

Children often don't want to go to sleep, and parents don't like to put them to bed. A simple card makes it much less of a struggle, researchers say, giving everyone in the family some control.

For U.S. leaders, the Russian airstrikes have stoked concerns that they would be used against not only ISIS, but also against moderate rebel groups.

Divers are having difficulty getting into the capsized ship. It was sailing to a resort island Wednesday when it capsized. Most of the passengers were high school students on a school trip.

The study by the Pew Research Center says the median net worth of a white family in 2009 was 20 times greater than that of the average black family, and 18 times greater than the average Hispanic family. The gap is twice what it was before the Great Recession.

The president boasted Tuesday of a bonus "favor" from Kim Jong Un, but experts say it might not mean much without independent verification.

DeSantis said Churchill said, "success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." PolitiFact reports the International Churchill Society, the Churchill Project at Hillsdale College and a Churchill historian say that Churchill didn’t say that.