Search results for

An elephant ranch in Florida is offering yoga classes for veterans to help them with trauma. From the other side of a fence, retired elephants eat and mosey around.

In a bid to get out of bankruptcy, United Airlines is expected to off-load its pension plans on the federal government's Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation. Most United workers will receive something close to the same benefits they were expecting. Many high-earners will get substantially less.

People in the small town of Plains — the birthplace of President Jimmy Carter — remember former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Sunday at age 96.

Susan Stamberg is an NPR "founding mother" and the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program. But her radio debut was not so glamorous: a fake weather report on a local radio station.

For more than 25 years, Frank Pease was the primary portrait photographer in LaPorte, Ind., — a town of about 20,000. Now his photos of everyday Midwesterners have been compiled into a book called LaPorte, Indiana.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with John Blake, who wrote More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew, about how an apparition of his grandfather led to healing.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House Judiciary Committee. A showdown between Turkey and the rest of NATO. And, student loan borrowers with disabilities aren't getting the help they deserve.

Julia Saad is a WUSF-USF Zimmerman Rush Family Digital News intern for summer 2024.

Utilities won’t be able to up a customer’s rates because of how they read meters if a bill sponsored by Sen. Charlie Dean (R--Ocala) becomes law. Dean...

At 54 years old, the dance music superstar has shifted more of his time and money toward animal rights activism and philanthropy. Does he have to change himself if he wants to change the world?

More people could still lose their jobs or face other consequences as a result of their actions before, during and after the Feb. 14 shooting at a...

Listeners pose questions about the coronavirus and the illness it causes, COVID-19.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Asli Aydintasbas, a European Council on Foreign Relations fellow, about the landslide election of a Turkish opposition party candidate in Istanbul's mayoral race.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Bloomberg correspondent Michael Bologna about the increasing number of fans catching record-breaking baseballs and the taxes that come with catching a piece of history.

The Senate has voted 94-2 to confirm Hillary Clinton as secretary of State. Clinton was expected to be confirmed Tuesday, but Texas Sen. John Cornyn raised objections, citing foreign contributions to Bill Clinton's foundation.

An Army medic killed in Korea in 1950 was brought back to Hawaii after the war as an unknown soldier. New tests have been able to identify him, and he was returned to Holyoke, Mass., for burial.

If public perceptions and pundits are to be believed, black churches are overwhelmingly against same-sex marriage. Except, it's not true.

Cheney, vice chair of the House select committee, will make a statement at Thursday's primetime hearing and lead the questioning of witnesses. Breaking with her party may cost Cheney her House seat.

Bold cabernet sauvignon wines made Napa Valley famous. Now, hotter temperatures are starting to damage the grapes, so some wineries are starting to experiment.

As if the pandemic weren't enough, people are wondering whether climate change will cause pathogens buried in frozen ground to come back to life as the Arctic warms. How worried should we be?

Florida is home to 24 phosphogypsum (PG) stacks. PG is a radioactive, solid waste byproduct. The House has approved a bill to study whether PG could be used in road construction.

Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in 2007 in connection with the leaking of a CIA officer's identity.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Dnitra Landon, a GM assembly line worker at the GM Detroit-Hamtramck plant. She was recently told about planned layoffs by GM.

Queen Elizabeth II's funeral was watched by millions around the world. She was Britain's longest serving monarch.