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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Carlos Monje, Twitter's head of public policy, about how the company is responding to misinformation on its platform ahead of the midterm elections.

When Florida Cabinet members jetted off to Israel in late May, some state employees who traveled at taxpayer expense stayed in a more than $400-a-night...

YouTube takes down a video of Gov. DeSantis and controversial health policy experts, saying it spread misinformation about kids and masks to stop COVID-19. The governor says it’s another example of what he calls Big Tech stifling free speech. Plus, lawmakers advance a ban on transgender student athletes.

Melissa Block speaks with Dan Friedman, who covers Washington for the New York Daily News, about how a question he asked of a source on Capitol Hill became the centerpiece for an explosive story spread by conservative media. Friedman says that in asking whether Chuck Hagel, who's been nominated to be secretary of defense, had received speaking fees from controversial groups, he made up the name "Friends of Hamas" as a farcical example. That name later surfaced on Breitbart.com, despite the fact that the group does not exist.

The president and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy. Refresh your knowledge on safe and effective use of common painkillers with these tips from health professionals.

Country star Kenny Chesney went into the studio as therapy after hurricanes tore through the U.S. Virgin Islands, the place he calls home. Those sessions became his latest album, Songs for the Saints.

Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.

The Democratic vice presidential candidate's taste for down-home Carhartt workwear and a camo cap have been getting a lot of media attention lately.

Only 41 "war on terror" captives remain at the prison camps on the U.S. navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Roughly a third of them are being held there at Camp 7, a lockup so secret that its very location is classified. Known as "high value detainees." they all underwent brutal interrogations in secret CIA prisons elsewhere. Now a military judge is letting some of their lawyers visit Camp 7 for the first, and possibly only, time.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump shared a debate stage for the first time since 2020 in a feisty confrontation. PolitiFact and WLRN fact-checked 30 statements, on topics including immigration, abortion, inflation, economy, jobs, Trump legal cases, January 6th, health care, foreign policy, Social Security, Medicare and taxes.

If you can’t make it to a Veterans Day parade or ceremony, there are other ways to show your appreciation for the men and women who have served or are…

Lakeland Regional Medical Center, which recently opened a new family health center, has won a $4 million grant in a new state initiative to encourage more…

The House Appropriations Committee today passed HB 7169, a measure that creates a program called Florida Health Choices Plus, that will cover about…

About 1,200 Floridians with critical needs will be getting enrollment letters from the Agency for Persons with Disabilities in the next two weeks. Those...

Humana, Florida’s largest Medicare managed-care company, says it will lay off hundreds of employees in April, including 328 in Florida. Of those, 260...

Moody's office offers a resource to help people spot potential scams related to COVID-19 stimulus money.

The fast-moving fire started on Saturday afternoon, not far from the site of last year's destructive blaze that leveled more than 1,000 homes.

"On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

Tampa-based WellCare Health Plans, Inc. has replaced chief executive officer Alec Cunningham with chairman David Gallitano. “As the company continues to

Per-person Medicare spending, much higher in Florida than all but one other state, has seen a dramatic increase in "post-acute" services -- nursing homes,…

Lawmakers in the Florida House have rejected an amendment that would have used federal funds to provide health insurance coverage to 1.1 million uninsured…

A community outreach worker from Moffitt Cancer Center will be honored Tuesday by the Obama Administration in Washington, D.C. for improving public health…

One of the confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Tampa Bay area is a patient who has no recent history of travel. The man is in his 60s, and is a resident of…

Farnell Middle School in Tampa will be closed for the next two days leading up to spring break after an individual was exposed to coronavirus.During a…

Regardless of development, the area could experience significant, damaging amounts of rain over the next few days.