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When Air France flight 358 from Paris to Toronto had a bumpy landing that ended with the plane skidding off the runway, the passengers and crew remained calm -- but didn't waste a chance to evacuate. Olivier Dubois was sitting in the rear of the A340 Airbus.

Floridians have until December 31st to sign up for a health insurance plan through Obamacare, thanks to Hurricane Irma.

A nearly four-decade-old law banning gays from adopting children, which hasn't been enforced in five years, will come off Florida's books July 1, but...

Actress Shelley Duvall, known for her roles in The Shining and a number of Robert Altman’s films, has died at home in Texas of complications related to diabetes, according to her partner Dan Gilroy.

Three Jewish women challenged Kentucky's near-total abortion ban on the grounds that it infringed on their religious beliefs that life begins at birth, not conception.

NPR's science podcast Short Wave talks about a new type of black hole star, the types of exercise linked to lowered dementia risk, and the wintry adaptations of the long-clawed shrew.

El Huracán Melissa está golpeando a Jamaica como una poderosa tormenta de Categoría 5 – la peor que la isla haya visto jamás, y los residentes de Tampa Bay con lazos en Jamaica están preocupados.

According to a recent USF survey, almost a quarter of Americans are not planning on getting vaccinated against COVID-19 anytime soon; many do not believe the vaccines are safe.

The Black Cemetery Network, formed in the Tampa Bay area, hosted its first national conference in St. Petersburg. Founder Antoinette Jackson says Florida is "leading the national conversation" on the work to identify, preserve, and record African American burial grounds and their equally buried histories.

House Speaker Paul Ryan's decision to retire is throwing House Republicans into chaos at a time when the party is deeply worried about losing control of that chamber.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jim Sanborn, creator of a cryptographic puzzle sculpture called "Kryptos" located at CIA headquarters, about his decision to release a third and final clue.

Most Brazilians speak English and Spanish with an accent. But Brazilians seem to take great offense to World Cup visitors speaking Portuguese with an accent.

Major League Baseball is finally beginning after a player lockout pushed the season start date back by a week. The NBA playoffs are almost here, while Tiger Woods makes a comeback.

Joshua Battistin of Orlando, Fla. is one of more than 30,000 students considering options to continue their education following the abrupt closure of the for-profit technical college.

Terryn Wingler-Petty and other Virginia Tech students were walking to class Monday morning when their day was interrupted by gunfire. Wingler-Petty was herded into a building across from Norris Hall, where she watched as people jumped out the window.

Alan Tripp always wanted to make an album. It only took 102 years to make it happen. Tripp speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about his debut album Senior Song Book.

Being Charlie is a new film about addiction in a Hollywood family. It's a story director Rob Reiner and his son, writer Nick Reiner, say they know well because of their own family's struggles.

The "Today" host shares words of encouragement and life lessons in his new memoir.

Comic book characters aren't exactly known for their racial diversity, but now a group of self-proclaimed black girl geeks are trying to change that. Guest Host Celeste Headlee speaks to Grace Gipson, a blogger for Black Girl Nerds, about the lack of black representation in geek culture.

Reddit's WallStreetBets community was central to this week's stock market insanity. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jaime Rogozinski, the founder and former moderator of that group.

A team of researchers believes that pythons may contain clues to help treat a range of human ailments — from heart disease to muscle atrophy, and more.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with journalist Caitlin Moscatello about the privatization of youth sports, an industry with annual revenues of more than $40 billion.

Bechdel's new graphic memoir is about her lifelong obsession with exercise. She says she has a "predisposition of being extremely self-conscious and very caught up in my head" — and exercise helps.

It's been a month since the civil war ended in Sri Lanka. Government troops defeated the Tamil Tiger separatist rebels, who they fought for nearly three decades. Tensions remain high on the island, and human rights activists say they're worried about the future of democracy in Sri Lanka.