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In the middle of the 20th century, more than 6 million African Americans left behind everything they knew in the South and headed to the North, Midwest and West Coast. That "Great Migration" is the subject of a new book by Isabel Wilkerson, called The Warmth of Other Suns..

The annual back-to-school sales tax holiday starts Monday and lasts two weeks. National chains like Kohl’s and Target have already announced sales.

The former car dealership owner beat out other primary challengers in a three-way race that tested former President Donald Trump's influence over Ohio GOP voters.

USF allergist Dr. Thomas Casale told an FDA advisory panel last year. that of the 6 million prescriptions written for EpiPen auto-injectors each year, more than 40% are never filled.

A wind chill advisory is in effect for the entire Tampa Bay area, and a freeze warning is up for most of the area, as temperatures are expected to drop…

The trial, at a courthouse just down the street from the site of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, is a milestone in the Capitol riot investigation.

The positivity rate for those testing positive for the first time came in at 6.25% on the most tests returned in a day since March 2.

Trump called the ruling "an insult" to the people who voted for him. But Trump's reactions are no surprise. Re-litigating the election is what he has largely focused on since leaving office.

In a World Series for the ages that went back and forth again and again, Will Smith delivered the biggest swing of all for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey of Twitter will testify about the steps they have taken to deal with misinformation about the election, COVID-19 and vaccines.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss the resignation of the head of the NFL players union, and the beginning of the second half of baseball season.

As federal health agencies change their approach to vaccine policy leaving access for COVID shots uncertain, some states are taking things into their own hands.

Aimee Ledesma didn’t realize recess was something that could be taken away until she started to ask her kindergartner more pointed questions about her...

Since taking office in January, Florida’s Republican governor has appointed a science officer, established a climate change czar and pledged to spend…

The full House is expected to approve two articles of impeachment against the president. The GOP-led Senate is already making plans for what leaders hope will be a quick trial in January.

In a night when Eilish, the youngest artist to win Album and Record of the year, might have otherwise been the whole story, the Recording Academy could not quite put its recent scandals behind it.

Host Michel Martin speaks with fitness guru Jennipher Walters about ways to stay on top of your New Year's fitness resolution amid the pandemic.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. now stretches from Australia to India, Great Britain and the United States. In a new book, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik looks at how News Corp. publications covered the company's hacking scandals, and its punitive attitude toward critics.

The Biden administration is expected to be sued over its ban on new oil and gas leasing on federal land. In top fossil fuel states like Wyoming, cuts to services and mass layoffs were already looming.

Dawnita Brown left her job to become a caregiver for her parents. Brown says it's a gift to care for her parents, but it can also be difficult. That's why respite is an important part of her life.

President Trump gave a foreign investment agency an unusual task: Give loans to domestic companies to help refill the depleted U.S. medical stockpile. House appropriators want an independent review.

In our ongoing series on phosphate mines, WUSF reports on the long, tangled history of Florida's phosphate mines and the environment.

In a fiery speech at Tiananmen Square, Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping vowed to keep an iron grip on Hong Kong and to conquer Tiawan, and warned foreign forces against trying to bully China.

Voting officials, who used to operate in relative anonymity, are facing threats and intense pressure as a large chunk of American voters have no confidence the system is fair.

American studios are working hard to play well in China's gigantic — and growing — movie market, all while negotiating complex rules and competing with popular domestic films.