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Forecasters say the cyclone is heading due south toward the western tip of Cuba.

Studies show a generational gap in electric vehicle purchases: younger people tend to be more excited about them, but less able to afford them. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Nov. 8, 2022.)

The city must fix the stadium under its 30-year contract with the Rays that runs through 2028. Council members voiced concerns about the price spikes, with the cost reaching just under$60 million.

Rogers Park Golf Course represents Tampa's growth from an era of segregation to the present day. Regulars like Lionel Ballard are ensuring the legacy of these links isn't lost on future generations.

The coronavirus pandemic has turned our lives upside down. But how many of these changes will become permanent? On this week's Florida Matters, we talk with a futurist who says the changes that are coming in the 2020's will be more transforming than anything we've seen in decades.

Three years ago, the novel coronavirus swept the world. Here are 24 quotes and 13 photos that sum up the reaction in the weeks before the World Health Organization's declaration of a global pandemic.

Broadbent, diagnosed at age 3, was one of the first generation of children born HIV positive, and known for raising awareness to lessen the stigma of the disease from a young age. She died Tuesday.

Now that the deadly bird flu virus has spread to poultry in northern Nigeria, experts say it is almost certain to spread further in Africa. Nigeria's poultry population is estimated at 140 million birds, and the nation appears ill-equipped to stamp out the virus.

Warren Buffett, the 94-year-old billionaire investor known as the "Oracle of Omaha," is retiring as Berkshire Hathaway's CEO. What made him so powerful, and why does he have so many fans?

Musk indicated his successor is female, but the billionaire stopped short of naming a person.

Actor John Lithgow grew up in a theater family but always wanted to be a painter. On Wild Card this week, he opens up what changed his mind.

A surge in salmonella cases around the country prompts a warning for backyard chicken owners from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

What to make of all the student loan news this year? We have three takeaways, and a literary analogy (it's NPR afterall).

The sitcom ends Tuesday after eight seasons.

After independent analysis, the museum said on Monday that five of its famed Dead Sea Scrolls fragments were fake. They will be pulled from their exhibit. Other fragments will undergo further study.

Search-and-rescue efforts are underway after more than 1,000 are reported dead from a powerful earthquake that hit southern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday. The death toll is expected to rise.

Critics of the Bangor Daily News said the redacted version promotes a whitewashed and sanitized version of Martin Luther King Jr. that does not convey his radical views and work as an activist.

George Floyd's death isn't just a story about a black man and the white cop charged with his murder. Among Asian Americans, the involvement of Hmong officer Tou Thao is stirring a racial debate.

The government reported Friday that the U.S. economy grew 5.7 percent in the last quarter of 2009. Although the White House called it the "most positive news on the economy to date," analysts disagree on whether the growth means the economy is out of the woods.

Evacuation orders were given late Friday to homes and businesses surrounding the leaking Piney Point processing plant in Manatee County.

Daniel Lyons Scott, a member of the Proud Boys extremist group, pleaded guilty to felony charges that included obstruction of an official proceeding, and assault.

A family was visiting the area from Charleston, S.C., and was on their way to a barbecue when they got caught in a flash flood, officials said.

Abortion is a polarizing issue. But whatever your opinion, if you’re a Floridian voting this November, you’ll have a say in whether the right to an abortion is written into the state constitution.

Skateboarding's youngest Olympian is 13-year-old Brit Sky Brown. Not only is she a skater, she's been on "Dancing with the Stars," recorded a song and music video, and wrote a book about girl power.

In most ways, it was an event like many held at the independent bookshop. But there were exceptions, like holding the event on the main floor so the authors and audience wouldn't have to deal with the stairs.