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The vetoes included $100 million for Conservation And Rural Land Protection easements. "Agriculture was harmed today," Republican Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson said.

Broward's new top leader has spent nearly three decades in neighboring Palm Beach County public schools, most recently as a regional superintendent.

Living near parks can boost health. But low-income communities of color often have less access than their wealthier, white counterparts. One project aims to change that by revamping schoolyards.

An unusual pattern for mid-June promises to bring several rounds of strong and severe thunderstorms to the Panhandle and North Florida through week's end.

McCarthy died Tuesday at age 89.

Secretary of State Blinken is in China for meetings. Present Biden is reviewing tariffs on Chinese imports. Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday.

Diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's spread through the brain like a forest fire. A new study suggests how the fire starts.

Salsa music has its roots in multiple places. The International Salsa Museum is holding pop-up exhibitions in New York City. The museum's leaders hope to open a permanent site in 2029.

NPR's A Martinez talks to David Miliband of the International Rescue Committee, about the driving forces that led to 108.4 million people being displaced globally — the largest number since WWII.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Doug Parker, head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, about climate-related hazards — such as workers facing smoke-filled air from wildfires.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is finishing his high stakes visit to China with another round of diplomatic talks in an effort to cool tensions between the two countries.

A year after historic floods in and near Yellowstone National Park, low-income residents are still displaced. The loss of mobile homes was a big setback.

Almost 20 million Americans live in mobile homes. Those homes are a lot less likely to be restored after natural disasters, meaning disasters often exacerbate the country's affordable housing crises.

Imposter scams are top U.S. fraud now: Con artists are using new technology to get real time information plus voice cloning and caller ID spoofing to make it even harder to tell truth from fiction.

It's nearly been two years since Virginia Democrats lost the governor's office and the House to the GOP. Before attempting a comeback this fall, they must first survive Tuesday's expensive primaries.

In footage released by China's state broadcaster, Xi is heard to say "The two sides have agreed to follow through on the common understandings President Biden and I have reached in Bali."

The only youth climate change lawsuit to make it all the way to trial is underway in Montana.

Every year, Wisconsin teens hone their running and jumping skills as they compete for an unusual summer job. The Lake Geneva mailboat jumpers leap from boats to deliver letters to waterfront homes.

President Biden has held on to one of the signature economic policies of his predecessor: tariffs on imports from China. We look at why he's kept them, and what it means for businesses.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Max Tegmark, professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about the potential dangers of using artificial intelligence as a weapon.

For the observation of the federal holiday, we hear from Nathan Connolly, an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, about the Emancipation Proclamation, and NPR staff read it.

The fossilized remains were found on the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. The new dinosaur's name is Vectipelta barretti — after Professor Paul Barrett from the Natural History Museum in London.

Mark Waldon discovered arm wrestling during the pandemic after getting COVID and then pneumonia. He recovered and has since become a European gold medalist. His inspiration is Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Despite slipping sales with the rise of digital filmmaking, Kodak announced a pact with major studios last week to continue producing and supplying old-school film.

In Cleveland, a public hospital may be succeeding at the seemingly impossible: saving money while making patients healthier. It's doing so by giving patients personalized attention.