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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Russell Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, about President Trump's proposed spending plan, and what it might mean for a possible second term.

University of West Florida interim president Manny Diaz Jr. emphasized measurable success and stability while steering clear of politics.

The housing authority director denies allegations of favoritism, nepotism and retaliation.

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read entries from a Web site that offers short poems about each of the chemical elements. The site, iSciFiStory.com, asked people to write haiku about their favorites.

Members of the Special Committee on Aging are asking residents and their families to submit their bills and are calling for a Government Accountability Office study.

Is Santa real? Will you ever die? Children ask questions that can induce knee-buckling panic in adults. NPR's Life Kit and Sesame Workshop have research-tested strategies to help you with the answers.

October 9, 2020, would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday, and to honor his life, Feeding Florida is giving residents the opportunity to help fight...

On Sunday, the Delaware Humane Society will honor the "wags to riches" journey of the future first dog with a virtual ceremony. The Bidens adopted Major from the shelter in 2018.

Some Americans say they don't want to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the Ad Council's CEO about public health messaging and ways to reach vaccine skeptics.

People are paying hundreds of dollars for COVID testing because at-home antigen kits and free appointments that offer timely results are scarce.

Alexis Bogan emerged from brain surgery last year unable to speak fluently. So doctors working with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI created a synthetic version of her voice that can say anything she wants.

Because music helps people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia bring out memories, some Jews in South Florida are finding Yiddish songs effective.

Jeep is recalling more than 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUVs because they can catch fire with the ignition turned off. The automaker says the risk of fire is reduced when the battery charge is depleted.

Pope Francis's death sets an ancient machinery into motion. Soon, with a puff of smoke, the last absolute monarchy in Europe will get a new leader.

Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee pushed back against the Trump administration's bid to rescind federal funding for public broadcasting and international aid programs.

Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.

Haitian families, who for years have lived under the uncertainty of their TPS renewal, now face a new and more immediate uncertainty: What losing TPS could mean for their ability to work, remain with their families and plan for the future.

The 42-second video comes two days after the Pentagon accused a Russian aircraft of colliding with an uncrewed MQ-9 Reaper drone. The Kremlin has denied that it intentionally downed the vehicle.

News that illness caused Cuban President Fidel Castro to temporarily cede power to his brother prompted celebrations in the Cuban-American neighborhoods of Miami, home to many of the descendents of Cubans who fled the island nation's communist rule. Guillermo Martinez, a columnist for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, talks with Madeleine Brand.

The play is based on Khaled Hosseini's 2003 best-selling novel, set in Afghanistan and among Afghan migrants in the United States.

It takes 106 football players to sell out an NFL stadium — or one Taylor Swift. So when the pop superstar was linked to Travis Kelce, fans immediately took action.

From desalination plants in Australia, wastewater recycling plants in Orange County, CA to net zero water buildings in NYC, in his latest book author and engineer David Sedlak looks not at the problems but the solutions.

Israel says it's creating a "security zone" inside Lebanon, where homes will be demolished, and residents won't be allowed to return home until people in northern Israel feel safe.

For decades, the Las Palmas neighborhood on the eastern edge of Everglades National Park has confounded water managers trying to restore the River of Grass, and stood as a warning to compromising on restoration work.

Scientists are beginning to come up with answers to the question of how long antibodies from an infection can protect you — and what they'll protect you from.