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President Obama spoke Tuesday about the impacts of deep spending cuts scheduled to take effect March 1. With a group of first responders in uniform standing behind him in the White House, he said if Congress doesn't stop the cuts, responders won't be able to help communities respond to disasters.

Said Tracie Hartman: “Since I’ve come here, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are learning how to eat a lot of veggies.”

Hurricane Fiona knocked many of Puerto Rico's avocados off their trees. In the days since the storm, everywhere you go, people are scrambling to eat and give away avocados before they rot.

Nicolas Cage plays a satanic murderer, and Maika Monroe is the clairvoyant FBI agent on his trail, in this tense and frightening horror movie.

Israelis are steeling themselves for an attack from Iran and Hezbollah. Iran has vowed retaliation against Israel after the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran last week.

In 1997, the minimum age for women gymnasts was raised to 16. Some thought it would usher in a less competitive era. Instead, athletes of incredible skill and longevity emerged.

Louisiana lawmakers have voted to classify two drugs -- mifepristone and misoprostol --commonly used to induce abortions as "dangerous controlled substances."

Feeling groggy these days? NPR's Life Kit has science-based strategies to help you sleep better, deeper and longer.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Missouri, Louisiana and five individuals who were either banned from social media during the pandemic or whose posts, they say, were not prominently featured.

Mental health advocates applaud the proposals, which they say offer much-needed federal leadership on a growing national crisis. But they worry about getting sustainable funding for the efforts.

McConnell spent weeks in recovery before explaining he was "briefly unconscious" following the fall that sent him to the hospital and a weeks-long recovery process.

With plenty of humor, the octogenarian talks about her far-reaching career — including why she fled the modernist school of composers — and some mysterious visitations from her dead heroes.

In his new book, Accessory to War, the astrophysicist argues that people who work in his field are often complicit to military development — despite being overwhelmingly liberal and anti-war.

Florida senators this week will start considering a proposal that would prevent physicians from performing abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Sarah Manriquez tells a dramatic story of driving a tour bus up a remote highway in a winter storm. It was originally performed for the Alaska storytelling show and podcast Dark Winter Nights.

In 1963, Thomas Clyburn was summoned to the principal's office at Sarasota's Booker High School. He thought he was in trouble - instead, he was being…

President Biden promises federal support to Maui wildfire survivors. Climate change forms a backdrop for extreme weather events. Leaders of five emerging economies meet to talk trade and cooperation.

Whether humans are apes depends on culturally embedded ways we frame our work in science, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.

Even though Subtropical Storm Alberto only brushed the coast of Florida last month, at least one of its beaches experienced some significant damage.Lido…

President-elect Biden is sworn in this week, but his inauguration will look vastly different. U.S. is on the verge of 400,000 coronavirus deaths. A Putin critic is arrested after landing in Moscow.

People are paying for blenders, shirts and even groceries in installments. New research suggests this encourages people to overspend.

From America's Test Kitchen, two dishes with heat: spicy Thai chicken served with rice and a coffee mug chocolate cake that's cooked in the microwave and results in a gooey, molten center.

Journalist Anjali Kamat spent a year investigating Trump's business deals in India. Her report is in the New Republic and on the WNYC podcast, Trump Inc., which is co-hosted by Andrea Bernstein.

Former U.S. Sen. and Florida Gov. Bob Graham says the Legislature’s decision not to fund Florida Forever is a blatant violation of Amendment 1, the 2014...

Gov. Rick Scott stepped into the legislative fray over health care funding Tuesday, proposing an idea for moving forward on the state budget that was...