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Many Pinellas County business owners and workers say they are ready to welcome snowbirds and vacation-seeking visitors. Changes in tourism trends in the state’s coastal playgrounds will be revealed in the coming months and years, especially during peak tourism season.

Hurricane Milton is closing in on Florida's west coast, and could make landfall as early as tonight. The Category 4 Hurricane is expected to be one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the area.

NPR speaks with former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about her new memoir, "Careless People," in an interview held before she was barred from discussing her criticism of the company.

Russia pounds Kyiv ahead of NATO summit, as Ukraine war returns to center stage amid high-stakes diplomacy.

Florida has become go-to for Republican politicians holding meetings and fundraisers. Part of the reason is the relaxed COVID restrictions, but warm weather and political winds are big draws, too.

In May, we brought you the audio diary of Leonor Muñoz , a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the class of 2018. Leonor carried a...

The Houston rapper's newest hit is the 83rd song in chart history to debut at the very top of Billboard's Hot 100. More than half of the songs to achieve the feat have done so in the last five years.

Want to have a private chat in public? Our Day to Day technology correspondent reports on a new technology that can protect conversations in a small, otherwise open space from eavesdroppers -- get the buzz on Babble.

In June, Patty Neidert of Akron, Ohio told us about removing her mother from a nursing home. She's had to put her into another facility that's in lockdown, but says hope is just around the corner.

Seung-hui Cho's "angry, depressed" behavior and writings alarmed a Virginia Tech professor and made others who knew him uncomfortable. A roommate says Cho's mother had these words about her son after one visit: "Help him."

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Walid Alhathloul, whose sister, Saudi activist Loujain Alhathloul, has been in prison in Saudi Arabia since May 2018. She says she will appear in court Wednesday.

While visiting jails and prisons across the country, author Alisa Roth witnessed mentally ill inmates in solitary confinement, wearing restrictive jumpsuits and receiving very limited therapy.

The president says he intends to fill Antonin Scalia's vacancy, but it's unlikely the Senate will make it easy. Cases on immigration, religious liberty and abortion access may hang in the balance.

The incident comes just days after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina. This new object was smaller and lower, and it's not clear where it came from.

The Tampa Bay area should get a larger voice in the state legislature next year. Members of the Florida House on Tuesday named Chris Sprowls of Pinellas…

After eight years away, Robyn's new album Honey has fans asking where she's been. The answer, as the Swedish singer tells NPR's Ari Shapiro: dancing her way to emotional clarity.

A significant number of new HIV infections happen among Black women, and a health education effort in Atlanta wants to make sure Black women can access the HIV-prevention medicines known as PrEP.

Trump says it's up to Congress to make a plan to keep 800,000 immigrants from being deported. They were children when they entered the U.S. illegally. And, Irma is on a collision course with Florida.

Researchers have learned a lot about blended families since the 1970s — when The Brady Bunch painted a perfect picture of stepsiblings getting along. Some of their advice might surprise you.

As the Writers Guild of America returns to work, we listen in on the first night of members' work appearing on talk shows, including excerpts from the monologues from The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show, Late Night With Conan O'Brien and The Daily Show.

The state received the results from 58,779 coronavirus tests Monday, and 4.99% of them were positive.

The Florida Department of Health on Sunday reported 56,163 people have tested positive for the coronavirus, an increase of 739 cases since Saturday.The…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's decision not to enforce an unofficial dress code has elicited strong reactions and dominated talk on Capitol Hill, even as a potential government shutdown looms.

Tom Cruise's films have grossed more than $5 billion worldwide. But is he overexposed? Surely you've heard of the baby and his odd antics on Oprah's couch. How will such publicity affect Friday's opening of Mission Impossible III?

Farai Chideya talks with Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick about the year in law, including the controversies over President Bush's power to conduct wiretaps and detain suspects without access to courts in the so-called "war on terror."