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David Greene talks to Guy Raz, host of the new NPR podcast "How I Built This," about the shapewear that made Sara Blakely a billionaire. She invented Spanx.

The state on Wednesday reported a decline of 48 people in Florida hospitals with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19.

Steve Inskeep speaks with former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about distrust in government and the status of the Democratic Party.

T. Geronimo Johnson's latest follows four Berkeley students who take an American history class that leads to disaster. It's an ambitious book about race that wants to say something big about America.

NPR's A Martínez talks to Liam Garner, a teen who's heading home to California after cycling from Alaska to Argentina.

The 1995 adaptation of Terry McMillan's novel celebrated the beauty of Black sisterhood.

In which Gwayne has a good eye.

Germany's public schools are struggling with a surge of students whose first language is something other than German. Test scores are falling.

Arizona Sen. John McCain has spent 30 years in the Senate but he's worried that sharing a ballot with Donald Trump this November could cost him his Senate seat.

Many of the models even shared that the silky, glossy hairstyles were accomplished with a hot comb and mousse. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Refinery29 writer Adama Munu about the scandal.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, automakers began adopting an anti-theft technology that dramatically reduced car thefts. But why did it take so long?

Consisting of eggs, milk and honey, the drink was alternately reviled and beloved by those who remember being given it in childhood.

Former police officer Thomas Lane, who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd, was sentenced on Wednesday.

Florida Matters is revisiting its special two-part series "Telling Tampa Bay Stories: Plant City," in light of the upcoming Florida Strawberry…

The new fee doesn't apply to sellers who use third party delivery services or ship orders themselves. Inflation in the U.S. stands at a 40-year high.

Some scientists say discrimination against gay and lesbian government employees during James Webb's tenure as NASA administrator should preclude him from having a telescope named in his honor.

The New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv spent years reporting stories about mothers and daughters searching for each other. When she became a mom, she saw everything she wrote differently.

This battle comes as the state’s real estate market continues to price out homeowners and renters alike.

The driving force behind Antony and the Johnsons is Antony Hegarty, who grew up deeply influenced by the musical presence of Boy George and Culture Club. Jerry Dannemiller has a review of the group's second CD, I Am a Bird Now.

Lawmakers were split by party at a hearing Tuesday over how much attention they paid to sharing of sensitive military information with a journalist on Signal.

I'm into piano, but it's also my frenemy. When I get frustrated with something I'm trying to learn, we stop talking for months. But then I hear a pop song and my brain leaps to how I would play it.

In this episode of Florida Matters, we speak to Florida historian and professor Raymond Arsenault on his new biography on the late Congressman John Lewis.

The great Boston Celtics point guard and his fellow Hall of Fame center won six NBA titles together — in the shadow of widespread racism. Gary Pomerantz documents that history in The Last Pass.

My heart fell when a counselor called to say he was worried something bad might have happened to Nat, my severely autistic 25-year-old son. Nat has trouble talking, and was teary. What should I do?

Police in Nigeria have rescued five sisters who were kidnapped in the capital in early January. The fate of the sisters has gripped a country where kidnapping has become an epidemic.