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Georgia will hold primary elections Tuesday. Republicans have dominated the state's politics for nearly 20 years. But with demographic change and GOP in-fighting, that control is in danger.

As marijuana has gone mainstream in America, lawmakers in states that legalized it are now grappling with a new question: Should high-potency pot products be regulated differently?

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have lost their legal right to stay in the U.S., among them an amateur astronomer sharing his love of stargazing as he tries to secure a visa.

The city of Tampa unveiled the $565,000 vessel In July, after two years of searching for the most efficient way to clean up local waterways.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody Wednesday targeted more than 20 e-cigarette makers as she announced an investigation into how they are contributing…

Some community members and City Council members spoke against a bill that prohibits panhandling or fundraising from medians without a permit. The bill passed 16-3.

An effort to impose minimum regulations on the parasailing industry, aided by video of a ghastly accident last summer that went viral on the Internet, is…

The United States struggled most of the game against a tenacious French team that was powered by a boisterous home crowd. The U.S. women's basketball team has not lost at the Olympics since 1992.

In 1999 Tom Peters met JoAn Joseph at a party for his job. A couple of years into their relationship, they came to a crossroads and had to make a difficult decision.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Lisa Desjardins of the PBS NewsHour and Sarah Ferris of Politico about what it was like to cover the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and about its consequences.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David Brooks of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker about the president's position on Iran and how the 2020 campaign season is heating up for Democrats.

Similar to the Senate proposal, the House health care plan recommends reducing Medicaid payments for inpatient and outpatient hospital care by $288 million.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her impending resignation last night. We examine what led to the Georgia Republicans' decision and what it might mean for their party's narrow House majority.

In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring network. Are others following?

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The goal: to understand how brains control the behavior of an animal or human.

More than half of young adults feel anxious, angry and powerless over climate change, a recent survey found. But there are ways to help turn that distress around. Here's how to give them a try.

White House bipartisan meeting aims to avert a government default. Russia scales back annual Victory Day parade. American Psychological Association issues guidance for teens' use of social media.

Pharmacists at major chain stores like CVS and Walgreens are at a breaking point. Many workers have staged walkouts, saying they are overworked, understaffed and risking patient safety.

Owners of a landmark seafood restaurant in Florida’s Panhandle are under criminal investigation in a major tax fraud case, according to court…

NPR's Noel King talks to Planet Money's Jacob Goldstein about his book, Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. He addresses technology, historic advances, and hustlers who made money what it is.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with author Jeff Chu about completing Wholehearted Faith, a book started by his friend, Rachel Held Evans, before she passed away in 2019.

The podcast came to an anticlimactic end as a mystery, but it says a lot about the demands of being a public figure.

Historical markers were once just for American history. But many now claim aliens have visited Earth from outer space — and they aren't hedging.

Wealthy Chinese woman are hiring Americans to be surrogate moms. We explore how the relationship between a Chinese woman and her American surrogate changed during a particularly difficult pregnancy.

The Supreme Court has chosen to hear two cases relating to same-sex marriage that would judge the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8. Washington Post opinion writer Jonathan Capehart argues that this is not the best time for a marriage equality ruling.