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Ethics issues for President Trump have come to a head. The U.S. government accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar for the Air Force One fleet, and he headlined a dinner for top Trump meme coin investors.

Voters in a record number of states — including the battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada — are set to decide this fall whether to enact far-reaching changes to how their elections are run.

The F-14 was made famous in Top Gun. The U.S. sold the planes to Iran in the 1970s, only for the two countries to become enemies. Iran kept its F-14s flying for decades in the face of U.S. sanctions.

Joe Biden names Kamala Harris as his running mate. The Big 10 and Pac-12 conference cancel all fall sports. And, Belarus' opposition candidate in the presidential election flees to Lithuania.

Few voters may be thinking of Jerome Powell as they go to the polls in November, but all will be coping with economic conditions strongly influenced by Powell's Federal Reserve Board.

Chess is seeing a global resurgence, sparked by The Queen's Gambit and the pandemic impact on leisure time. India is an emerging power player, with 85 grandmasters and intense chess schools for youth.

Just as Florida leaders ramp up state efforts to woo business and industry leaders during the Republican National Convention, the state’s desirability for…

The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) has come out with its 2012-2013 list of the 75 Best College Towns and Cities, and while Gainesville…

It's not the U.S. News list of top universities, but the University of South Florida is at least getting the attention of another national media outlet.…

Just like their male counterparts did last year, the USF women's basketball team won a NCAA Tournament game for the first time in team history, as the #10…

The U.S. Census Bureau on Monday released 2019 population estimates that showed Florida continues to be one of the fastest-growing states in the country.…

Jacky Rowland reports from Belgrade that Yugoslav opposition leaders have launched a civil disobedience campaign to persuade President Slobodan Milosevic to recognize Sunday's election victory of Vojislav Kostunica and to cede power. Thousands of Serbs demonstrated again today in downtown Belgrade, and crowds were out in provincial cities, as well. She says although state-run television is showing pictures of Milosevic, still in charge, government officials are not answering phones, and it seems they do not know how to handle the situation. And, though top officers in the army and police are loyal to Milosevic, army soldiers, as well as rank and file policemen, do not support the regime.

For the past 20 years, president and director Gary Graffman has nurtured top talent at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. Now 77, he's stepping down from his adminstrative posts and focusing once again on teaching piano.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki calls for an Iraqi committee to meet with the U.S. military to establish ground rules for raids on Iraqi homes. He said Iraq "totally rejects" conduct such as the reported killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines last fall in Haditha.

In his first one-on-one interview with the media since the start of the war in Iraq, Sec. of State Colin Powell talks about expanding the "coalition of the willing" -- and says he has no intentions of stepping down as the nation's top diplomat.

The Pfizer drug company agrees to pay a $430 million fine and plead guilty to illegal marketing practices, U.S. prosecutors say. The unprecedented fine comes after the company admitted that its Warner-Lambert unit promoted Neurontin, an epilepsy drug, for several unapproved uses. The drug remains a top seller for Pfizer, with 2003 sales of $2.7 billion. NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports.

Thomas Edison's music room went unused since the days when he was using it to record the famous at the turn of the century. Lately, some top names have been back there in West Orange, New Jersey, making modern-day wax cylinders, which use no microphone, no electricity.

Cracked Day to Day reporter Brian Unger scales a Los Angeles landmark that's been overrun by fitness fanatics. People from all over the city lumber up and down the 154 steps to the top of a canyon in a tony beachside neighborhood. View a photo gallery of the stairs and some regular climbers.

James Nicholson, the top official at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says he will leave his post by Oct. 1. Under Nicholson, the agency was criticized for being unprepared to care for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sonic booms surprised residents across central Florida Sunday morning due to the landing of a top-secret military space plane at NASA's Kennedy Space…

New foreclosure numbers out of RealtyTrac keep Florida’s foreclosure rate near the top in the nation. But there are some bright spots in the numbers as…

Republican businessman Donald Trump won the key battleground state of Florida on Tuesday, edging out former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after a…

They also could be eligible for an additional $100 from the state.

Melissa Block and food writer Mark Bittman visit a farmer's market, and return with ingredients for a springtime meal that features an unusual use for beets.

In the second of our four-part series on managed health care, NPR's Patricia Neighmond takes a look at how a group of doctors in Southern California has banded together to take back control over medical decision-making from insurance companies. The doctors' new group practice grew out of frustration with a payment system that was permitting HMOs and other insurance companies to make decisions about when and how a patient would receive medical care. Analysts say the group is a model for other doctors who want to practice cost-efficient medicine and provide patients with top-quality care.