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Drug-resistant tuberculosis is a growing problem. It's spread through the air. It can kill you. And it's incredibly difficult to treat. But a program in Peru shows that the disease can be cured.

Amazon workers begin voting Friday on whether to form a union at a company warehouse on Staten Island in New York. If the yes votes prevail, it would be the first Amazon union in the U.S.

Also included in the proposed package is $750 million to give Californians free rides on public transit for three months.

One year the telecast was actually too short. Another time an actor climbed over rows of chairs between him and his Academy Award. Björk laid eggs on the red carpet. Oscar can go weirdly off script.

Ukraine is outgunned by Russia but is making the most of its mobile weapons that allow Ukrainian troops to be more nimble. Some of the most important weapons are from the United States.

The Marines died from the crash of a V-22B Osprey aircraft during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war, officials said.

President Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, faces a second day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Tampa Pride 2022 returns to Ybor City on Saturday for a day of festivals, live music, parades, and more.

Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has been directing abusive and inappropriate behavior at his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her new partner Pete Davidson.

More than half of China's biggest cities are still under some form of lockdown measures. They're costing people economically and emotionally.

Throughout the month of May, WUSF will feature the voices of local teachers, as they describe the challenges they face, in their own words.

Apartment renters showed up in force at the state Capitol recently to oppose a plan by out-of-state companies to help landlords charge a new fee to their tenants, but industry forces had the votes.

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bids farewell today to its longtime director, Philippe de Montebello, by opening an exhibition of carefully culled objects acquired during his 31-year tenure.

Late-night hosts and comedians Desus Nice and The Kid Mero pick their favorite Tiny Desk concerts.

Now is the time when critics make their year-end lists. Unfortunately, you cannot please everyone, and if enough people read your list, you will eventually run into these 20 unhappy people.

Like her Mad Men counterpart, the 84-year-old broadcasting legend got her start as a secretary for a Manhattan advertising agency. That's not the only parallel for Walters, who retired this week.

Fishing in the Gulf of California has nearly wiped out the vaquita marina. But a new genetic analysis offers hope for the engandered porpoise: the species can make a comeback, if humans protect it.

If confirmed, Christopher Wray will take over a vast agency with more than 30,000 employees and a myriad of departments that the public has come to know through depictions in popular culture.

Rachel Martin talks with film reviewer Claudia Puig about two very different movies opening this week: Atomic Blonde, starring Charlize Theron, and Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit, about the 1967 riots.

Thousands of Venezuelans are trying to make their way back to the country they fled. They left because of the economic crisis to look for work elsewhere, but the pandemic has cost them those jobs.

The Sarasota-Manatee campus of the University of South Florida will get a new STEM building in 2027, right near New College of Florida.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Huffington Post writer Emma Gray about Monday's episode of The Bachelor, on which a contestant opened up about her sexual assault in an unusually frank and sensitive way.

A last-minute intervention ensured the military was paid despite the government shutdown, but military families remain anxious as the shutdown drags on without a long-term solution.

So, you've grown a pumpkin that weighs over 1,000 pounds. What now? For Rick Swenson, competitive pumpkin grower, the answer was clear: Get in and paddle it down the river as far as it'll go.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dr. Jeanine Ronan about the growing doctors shortage in the US and why fewer physicians are going into pediatrics.