Search results for

Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart is expected to recommend a test to (mostly) replace the FCAT later this month.A new test is needed because…

Early Sunday morning, before the 2,000 passengers from cruise ship disembark, a line of taxi cabs forms outside Port of Tampa Bay Terminal #2 just beyond…

Currently, there’s only one Florida Democrat actively campaigning for governor and she is accusing Republican Gov. Rick Scott of running the state like a…

The 23rd Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading will be held on Saturday, Oct. 24 at USF St. Petersburg.This week on Florida Matters (Tuesday, Oct. 13 at…

"Alloparents" means "other parents" — family, friends, community folk, even strangers — who lend a hand to a parent. Here are stories you shared about your own encounters with alloparents.

In LA and elsewhere, some parents are having trouble finding the new pediatric COVID shot, especially for those under 5. Not all pediatricians or pharmacies have it, even if vaccines.gov says they do.

The conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd is a major moment in the push for police to face accountability in the killings of Black men.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with gymnast Aly Raisman, who is demanding greater accountability for the sexual abuse committed by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is promoting a controversial fix for the city's struggling public school system. He wants to put the bureaucracy under his control. Villaraigosa says this will bring more accountability to Los Angeles public schools. But his opponents call it a power grab.

Statements from al-Qaida mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed detailing the inner workings of the terrorist group played a key role in the trial of convicted terror conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. Madeleine Brand discusses those statements with Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.

Israel's military said the airdrops would begin Saturday night in Gaza, after mounting accounts of starvation-related deaths. Israeli officials also said humanitarian corridors will be established.

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. He was 91.

Senate and House leaders have fast-tracked identical bills. The Senate version, however, was held up Monday when Senate Judiciary Chair Jeff Brandes was delayed in another meeting.

Fighting growing wildfires in western North Carolina is hampered by debris left over from Hurricane Helene-related flooding, which was 6 months ago this week.

The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) is proposing a plan to reduce in-person visitation hours. That comes at the same time it rolls out a for...

With a more contagious variant now dominant in the U.S., the country's genomic surveillance capacity is getting a major boost.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with an Afghan NGO employee who was able to leave the country under a special immigrant visa. Her relatives and colleagues, however, are stuck in limbo.

The judge supported the preliminary injunction request from Brandon-based Gale Force Roofing & Restoration LLC. They say the law violates First Amendment rights by penalizing protected speech.

The Russian gun rights activist had sought to establish back-channel ties between the Russian government and leading U.S. conservative groups, including the Trump campaign and the NRA.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz about differences between the case against former President Trump and past cases involving the handling of classified information.

President Trump signed an executive order last week aimed at "restoring truth and sanity to American history" through an overhaul of the Smithsonian Institution and historical sites around the U.S.

For nearly 25 years, the Brandon Outreach Clinic has provided free health care to people who can't get care any other way. The Affordable Care Act is…

Marielle Segarra explains how she starts her day — and shares her favorite Life Kit episodes, life hacks and why she's excited to talk about money and finance on the podcast.

Attorney and author Carrie Goldberg was the target of revenge porn from an ex-boyfriend, and now she's built a practice helping people in similar situations. Her new book is Nobody's Victim.

People are looking for answers to complex health insurance problems. The navigators whose job it is to help are going to have their work cut out for them now that that the Affordable Care Act is moving into high gear.