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Florida’s legislative session has been underway for almost a month and there have already been some big changes.We talk with reporters about key issues…

The Tampa Bay area is becoming a hub for craft beer both statewide and nationally, with the highest density of breweries in Florida. This week on Florida…

American slavery predates the founding of the United States. Wendy Warren, author of New England Bound, says the early colonists imported African slaves and enslaved and exported Native Americans.

After the deadly events in Virginia, President Trump blamed "many sides." Those remarks didn't go far enough for some, who called on Trump to denounce the white supremacists behind the violence.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is offering couples retreats to help former service members communicate with their spouses.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Debbie Hewet, a nurse and director of critical care services at Mercy Fort Smith in Northwestern Arkansas about the rise in young, unvaccinated COVID patients.

Forty-five years after man first walked on the moon, Alan Bean, who was part of the second lunar landing, talks to NPR's Arun Rath about his stormy launch and how he translates space travel into art.

As Yom Kippur approaches, many Jews are engaging in self-reflection and a process of atonement. One woman shares her story of seeking repair.

In 1943, a Marine pilot kept a diary during his service in World War II. Lt. Charles C. Winnia chronicled his missions flying against the Japanese in the Pacific, and his love for a girl back in Nashville, Tenn. Winnia was shot down, and never came home. His diary -- nearly forgotten for over 60 years -- was recently discovered and read by his sweetheart, Violet Jane Watkins, for the first time. Read diary excerpts and hear Watkins read Winnia's last letter to her.

A federal moratorium on evictions is set to expire over the weekend, potentially putting millions of tenants at risk of eviction just as delta variant infections are on the rise.

Efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus are being hampered because many people don't believe it's real. "It's absolute garbage," said Craig Mann of Flathead County in northwest Montana.

After my parents died, it felt like I had been robbed. I sat down with my brother and sister to talk about how losing our mom and dad made us think about religion and our own spirituality.

The tourism industry pushed Wednesday to keep the doors open at the state’s tourism-marketing agency as House and Senate budget committees advanced...

A good comedian has to "know what regular people are going through," he says. In his new Hulu special, Lonely Flowers, Wood riffs on how isolation has sent society spiraling.

The climate crisis is undeniable and overwhelming. People have lots of questions about how they can help the planet in their daily lives. The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast, from KCRW, has the answers.

South Korea's government has moved aggressively to encourage more childbirth, but its ongoing struggles point to the complexity of a challenge that is only becoming more salient around the world.

Some athletes just didn't show up. One young woman ran her race — and then kept running after crossing the finish line, forcing a doping control officer to run after her, a coach said.

His father was a Beatle, but Dhani Harrison wanted a musical project that didn't carry the burden of his family name. So he started a band called thenewno2, where he's created a sound and a promotional strategy that is all his own.

They aim to overcome a fierce intraparty divide. Steve Inskeep talks to Republican Rep. John Faso, who represents a swing district in New York's Hudson Valley.

Twenty-two years ago a woman traveled to China to adopt a baby girl. She recently sat down with her daughter at StoryCorps to talk about the adoption during the era of China's one-child policy.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Nixon's White House Counsel John Dean about this week's guilty plea by President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

Christine Yared, 15, a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School over the weekend wrote a an opinion piece for The New York Times: "Don't Let My Classmates' Deaths Be In Vain."

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Alessandra Sampaio, journalist Dom Phillips' widow, and Jonathan Watts, Phillips' friend and colleague, about finishing the book Phillips was writing when he was killed.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Jerry Rowley, owner of Logan's Candies in Ontario, Calif., about how a House bill to force a change in TikTok ownership, and a potential U.S. ban, would affect his business.

Gasoline prices have fallen more than 20 percent. And natural gas is selling for less than half what it cost a year ago. But that doesn't mean everyone is benefitting equally from the abrupt reversal.