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Health experts warn silica dust from cutting engineered quartz may be causing widespread, underdiagnosed lung disease among thousands of countertop fabricators across the United States.

Atlanta rapper Michael Santiago Render, known professionally as Killer Mike, released his sixth album this month, and his U.S. tour kicks off Tuesday. He explains to Morning Edition that he wants rap music to be embraced like jazz, blues or gospel. "What's more gospel than rap music?" he asks.

Plastic surgery is becoming a public health risk, the chairman of the state’s medical licensing board said during a meeting in South Florida.Florida Board…

Governor Ron DeSantis made a stop at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples on Wednesday to announce that he wants more funding for Everglades…

A crowd of 200 filled Selby Library auditorium in Sarasota Wednesday night for a town hall featuring students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.…

A hurricane watch was issued for part of North Carolina's coast early Wednesday as Tropical Storm Arthur moved northward, threatening Fourth of July plans…

The Florida legislature has started sending Governor Ron DeSantis bills to sign -- a process delayed due to the coronavirus.DeSantis received seven bills…

Congress has extended the COBRA subsidy periods again and again, helping many laid-off workers keep health insurance. Still, sorting through the paperwork to get the government assistance is no easy task. And, the government subsidies expire in March unless the jobs bill passes.

Medicare has tied incentive payments and penalties to two-dozen quality measurements, including surveys of patient satisfaction and death rates. More than 1,200 hospitals are receiving bonuses. But more hospitals are being paid less for each Medicare patient they treat for the year that began Oct. 1.

The Justice Department announced multiple hate and firearms charges against the white man accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo market in a predominantly Black neighborhood.

Host Bob Edwards catches up with freshmen Sens. Mark Pryor and John Sununu, six months into their first term in the United States Senate. It's Edwards' third visit with Pryor, a Democrat from Arkansas, and Sununu, a Republican from New Hampshire, since they were elected in November.

NPR's Mandalit del Barco speaks with mourners in Southern California who visited memorials for President Ronald Reagan over the weekend. Mourners gathered at the funeral home where Reagan's body was briefly held, and also at his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Biden's address is part of a visit to the island of Ireland, as he marks the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and revisits his family's own history.

This comes the day after Gov. Gavin Newsom visited the town and talked about the lasting wounds this shooting and others like it will create.

Coal miners will press members of Congress to fully restore a coal excise tax that supports miners diagnosed with black lung. The tax was cut more than 50% at the end of last year.

Vice President Harris and former president Donald Trump are in a tight race in Pennsylvania. The state could go either way and it’s why both candidates are working so hard to appeal to voters.

After nearly three hours of emotional public comment, DeSoto County commissioners on Tuesday took the first step toward a one-year moratorium on data centers.

President Bush said Tuesday there will be "more tough fighting ahead" in Iraq, but denied claims that the nation is in the grips of a civil war three years after the U.S.-led invasion.

Beatriz Flamini was 48 when she entered the Granada cave in November 2021, and 50 when she emerged on Friday. Her experiment aims to shed light on the physical and mental effects of isolation.

The photographer, a photojournalism student at Syracuse University, documents her enforced quarantine after abruptly returning from her study abroad.

Ireland-based artist Pan Cooke creates cartoons summarizing the world's daily news in comics, highlighting how prevalent police brutality and hate crimes are across the U.S.

Hillary Clinton tried to rally important Democratic delegates to her side at the party's summer meeting in Minneapolis. But, as she looks increasingly vulnerable, rivals are pressing their own cases.

N.K. Jemisin won Hugo Awards for the first two volumes of her Broken Earth trilogy. The Stone Sky is a powerful, timely finale to this story of a world built on oppression and exploitation.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner's debut novel seems like a Portnoy-esque tale of a lovable lout, but halfway through, the story shakes itself up and reorients itself in a completely different direction.

Simon Stålenhag's new book of paintings is a followup to his unique vision of a robot-and-monster haunted alternate Sweden. Each page is heavily freighted with dread, but you can't stop looking.