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A restaurant in Mobile, AL, has a sign: "Free oysters to any man 80 years old accompanied by his father." NPR's Scott Simon talks to Jimmy Rush who showed up on his 80th birthday with his dad, Jim.

Character actor George Wendt was known to a generation as Norm, the beleaguered, lovable everyman on the sitcom Cheers. He died this week at the age of 76.

Host Bradley George and Zac Anderson of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune have a wide-ranging conversation that touches on the new leaders of the state legislature as well as the amendments approved by voters in November.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with lawyer Mark Melton, who is one of 100 attorneys in Dallas, doing pro bono work to help people threatened with evictions during the pandemic.

The former U.S. poet laureate says he can't write poetry any more, but still has some prose in him. In a new book, Essays After Eighty, he considers his art, his beard and his experience growing old.

It’s part of a Republican push to protect 2nd amendment rights.

A recent Pew poll shows that only 17% of Americans say they trust the government. That's compared to a whopping 77% in 1964.

The $6.4 million would have provided free menstrual products for K-12 students.

Paul Whelan was part of the largest prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia since the end of the Cold War. But since coming home, Whelan says he's still imprisoned — by bureaucracy.

For more than 50 years, the health program for the poor and sick has been required to ferry some clients to and from medical appointments. But a few states say transport is currently too expensive.

Voters in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Sarasota, Manatee, Polk, and Hernando counties headed to the polls Monday, the first day of early voting for the 2020 general election.

The artist was a star performer in country music and went on to become one of the genre's most recognizable and universally adored ambassadors to broader popular culture.

They contain memos from meetings with informants, mostly of interest to historians and researchers. No evidence is expected that would put in doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman.

NPR's Eyder Peralta and sports reporter Michele Steele discuss the sale of the L.A. Lakers, the WNBA's handling of player remarks on transgender athletes and "Pope night" for the Chicago White Sox.

The Biden administration isn't sold on the idea that hot spots should get more doses, despite growing calls from local leaders. Instead, states get a weekly supply based on their populations.

NPR's A Martinez talks to actor Colin Firth about what inspired him to play a grieving father searching for justice after the death of his daughter in the 1988 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Recently released Medicare data show that 1,800 doctors and other health providers nearly always charge Medicare the highest rate for patient care. Experts challenge the legitimacy of the charges.

Many experts believe heat-related illnesses and deaths are almost certainly under-counted both in Florida and nationwide. One major reason is the way the medical industry keeps records.

Jan Morris chronicles the final days of the most powerful warship in the Imperial Japanese Navy in her latest book. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Battleship Yamato a work of both power and restraint.

David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig.

For their popular podcast, two longtime friends sit down at a kitchen table and share little-known anecdotes and historical facts about New York. Its bare-bones production hasn't hurt its popularity — it's been downloaded 5 million times in the past five years.

Two of the winners are 13; the other is 16. It "could very well be the youngest Olympic podium ever," the official Olympics news outlet says.

An international court convened in Cambodia to judge the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge regime that caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people in the 1970s ends its work Thursday.

As Texans affected by flooding begin to rebuild, many are finding that few funds are available to help. Just 7 percent of homeowners in the state have flood insurance through the federal government.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Jay Foreman of toy importer Basic Fun! about President Trump's latest round of tariffs. The company has paid millions of dollars in import duties under Trump.