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After her beloved great-grandmother's death, author Julia Alekseyeva discovered her memoirs, bursting with rich details of her life in the USSR enduring wars, pogroms, and purges.

The NBA and Major League Soccer are getting underway in their 'protective' bubbles near Orlando. They get regular COVID-19 tests and quick results. But that's not the case for regular Floridians.

The long ball is back. Major League Baseball players broke the single season record for home runs. But, how did this happen? And do we have to start wondering about steroids again?

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken about talks in Beijing meant to ease tensions between China and the U.S.

But some health experts worry about traditional diet companies and gyms getting in the medication business and believe the drugs will cater to society’s need for quick fixes.

But some health experts worry about traditional diet companies and gyms getting in the medication business and believe the drugs will cater to society’s need for quick fixes.

People can spend months recovering from COVID-19 and sometimes have lasting disabilities. That is especially hard for undocumented people, who often are in high-risk jobs without health insurance.

Residents have mixed feeling about the city's exponential growth.

The Broad contemporary art museum opened in Los Angeles this weekend, and NPR explores how the museum's audio tour addresses the challenge of how talk to kids about contemporary art.

Tampa demonstrators blocked part of Dale Mabry Highway in support of Cubans who are protesting the island's poor economic conditions.

Siblings Cody and Kaleigh Brendle have grown up with the right to community integration. Now, they worry those protections for people with disabilities like them are being eroded.

Florida’s unemployment rate approached the end of 2019 at a historic low.The rate fell to 3.1 percent in November, down from 3.2 percent in October and…

An avian flu outbreak in dairy herds has stoked tensions between the federal government and raw milk advocates. Milk testing could provide assurances and useful data, but some farmers oppose it.

In Southern California and communities from St. Louis to Seattle, millions of Americans live in areas at risk for earthquake. But many have not taken simple steps to protect themselves — and seismologist can only provide limited warning.

In the new documentary "Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5," filmmaker Raoul Peck dives into how Orwell's experiences informed his ideas and his writing.

The federal COVID-19 public health emergency is coming to an end today. But as we look back at the three-plus years of the pandemic, did we miss the opportunity to best protect our country?

For residents of the Glades, a string of poor, predominantly African American rural towns dotting the southern shore of Florida's Lake Okeechobee, the…

Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida political icon who first arrived on Capitol Hill in the decades when Democrats dominated this presidential battleground state,…

In her new memoir, NPR's All Things Considered co-host uncovers some painful family secrets — the "things left unsaid" by her African-American relatives as they tried to shield the younger generation from memories that haunted the past.

Threats against Jews, Arabs and Muslims have risen since the Israel-Hamas war started. DOJ says it's protect those communities, but Arab and Muslim groups say their voices aren't being heard.

In 2009, the singer-songwriter says she asked herself the question, "Who am I?" The answer led her to make plans to retire. Four years later, she's re-emerged with a new album called SongVersation, as well as a new sense of who she is as an artist.

Fernando Perez, the 26-year-old outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays, has written an essay in the September issue of Poetry Magazine about the firm place poetry holds in his life. Perez says poetry and baseball occupy different realms of his life.

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Brené Brown talks about trying to find the face of God in everyone she sees.

Melodrama is essential to any American soap opera, and the same holds true for their Chinese counterparts. Rachel DeWoskin talks about her role as an aggressive Westerner in a Chinese daytime drama, and her new book, Foreign Babes in Beijing.

A company wants federal permission to use a pesticide linked to brain damage in young children and infants on citrus trees in Florida and Texas.