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The 17-year-old did a stint this summer in the broadcast booth of Cleveland’s high-A affiliate baseball team, The Lake Country Captains.

Sept. 11 represented a new kind of national security threat, and a new national security architecture was created to confront it.

More than 70,000 people died of drug overdoses last year — many of them from heroin and other opioids. One of the most widely-used tools to confront this crisis is a drug called naloxone. It can reverse an opioid overdose within seconds, and has been hailed by first responders and public health researchers. But earlier this year, two economists released a study that suggested naloxone might be leading some users to engage in riskier behavior — and causing more deaths than it saves. This week, we talk with researchers, drug users, and families about the mental calculus of opioid use, and why there's still so much we're struggling to understand about addiction. For more information about the research in this episode, visit https://n.pr/2OZfuGQ.

A spacecraft on its way to Pluto has just woken up from hibernation. By next month, scientists expect to have the first good pictures of the dwarf planet. All of the others have been, well, crummy.

Every day, Americans of different races pass on sidewalks, barely acknowledging one another. But Elijah Anderson, author of Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, says even highly segregated cities harbor spaces that enable all kinds of people to interact.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with journalist Katie Couric about her recent breast cancer diagnosis.

Forty years ago today, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., announced final plans for a march on Washington for his Poor People's Campaign. One of his most ambitious political goals, it was aimed at eliminating poverty, regardless of race. Author David Shipler revisits King's vision.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, nominated to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will sell shares in Eli Lilly and UnitedHealth. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, NIH nominee, will shed stock in Walmart and Nvidia.

Owning a home is a part of the American dream. It's also the key to building intergenerational wealth. But Black Americans continue to face discrimination in housing, including through higher costs.

Police say one killed the rest but did not say which of the six was the suspect. A husband and wife among the dead had invested with two of the others, suggesting that money could be a motive.

A previous court decision backed the Leon County school system in a dispute about a student wanting to express a gender identity and use pronouns the child's parents didn't support.

According to the decision, the law is in violation of Section VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, however the outcome of the issue might ultimately hinge on an appeals court ruling in a Georgia case.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier cites health risks and potential conflicts with state abortion laws as the states ask to intervene in the high-profile FDA challenge.

President Eisenhower was not a fan of the 1954 Supreme Court order against segregated schools; but he sent the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Ark., to ensure it was enforced at Central High.

In Brownsville, Texas, two Mexican restaurants are pushing the envelope of what a corn tortilla can envelop, and an award-winning cafe cooks barbacoa the old-fashioned way.

Contributor Alexander Tuerk revisits departed family and the virtual worlds that sustained him in uncertain times.

The City of Parkland hosted its annual commemoration of the 17 lives lost in the 2018 tragedy, just as another mass shooting took place at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl parade. “They were children with bright futures ahead of them,” said one parent.

Voting-rights groups want a federal court to reconsider a ruling that upheld the constitutionality of a Florida congressional redistricting plan, pointing to the “outsized” role that Gov. Ron DeSantis played in pushing the plan through the Legislature.

Voters in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky signaled support for abortion rights, even where it wasn't directly on the ballot, more than a year after the Supreme Court rolled them back.

Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld didn't campaign as a member of the LGBTQ community but says it's a big deal for the American Medical Association, which was once known mainly as a conservative self-interested trade group

Tampa International Airport officials tell spring break travelers to beware the Ides of March — they project a record 101,000 travelers on March 15.

“The smell of marijuana is probably the most common tool that law enforcement uses to search,” said Richard Hornsby, a criminal defense lawyer in Orlando.

Last month's ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on the Affordable Care Act means more than 1.4 million Floridians will keep their tax subsidies for...

Efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus are being hampered because many people don't believe it's real. "It's absolute garbage," said Craig Mann of Flathead County in northwest Montana.

A new musical on Broadway called Hot Feet is a collaboration between musician Maurice White of the R&B group Earth, Wind and Fire and choreographer Maurice Hines. Ed Gordon talks with White and Hines about the venture.