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New gene therapies offer potential cures for sickle cell disease, but multimillion-dollar costs raise major questions about access and equity.

Hurricane Melissa is expected to make landfall early Tuesday morning in Jamaica. The Category 5 hurricane is poised to become the strongest storm ever to strike the island.

A fifth grade girls basketball team had to join the boys league to keep their practice facility. They won the championship but were denied the championship trophy.

The former governor spoke on "Florida Matters Live & Local" about wanting to keep Major League Baseball in St. Petersburg, his ideas on reducing city property taxes and other issues.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory project manager MiMi Aung gave an enthusiastic two thumbs-up and then clenched fists before a roomful of engineers erupted in applause.

In an effort to quell calls for him to quit the race, Biden sat for a network TV interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Friday night. Did it work?

The Homeland Security Task Force - Southeast said they have stopped or removed more than 1,300 refugees at sea or from Dry Tortugas National Park and other areas of the Florida Keys since Dec. 30 and urged family members of Cubans and Haitians thinking of making their way to the U.S. to dissuade such efforts.

Martin Amis' latest novel, Lionel Asbo, takes a bilious — but funny — look at the deterioration of England through the eyes of the titular lowlife Lionel, a habitual offender who doesn't mind repeated prison stints, and his crime-reporter nephew Desmond.

David Grossman began working on his novel To the End of the Land while his son Uri was in the Israeli Army. He hoped it would protect him. It didn't. Uri was killed, and Grossman's fiction explores the fragility of families, nations and life itself.

The young boy in Pete Dexter's new novel, Spooner, bears a striking resemblance to the author himself. But Dexter insists that he hasn't written a memoir, only a novel with "a lot happier ending than life was."

Are you afraid of the dark? In his latest children's book, The Dark, Daniel Handler — who writes under the pen name Lemony Snicket — takes on darkness itself, with the story of a young boy who confronts his biggest fear.

Researchers using DNA analysis say a body buried in feminine clothing and with a sword was neither strictly male or female. The grave shows the high status of some nonbinary people in their community.

Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor spent years researching the racial slur, but never revealed that her father was the legendary comic who used it profusely. Her new book is Something We Said.

"I'm up here for all those kids in Athens and in Athens County that go home to not a lot of food on the table, hungry after school," LSU quarterback Joe Burrow said when accepting the trophy.

A security guard at a South Dakota science center noticed three people walking off with the statue. Video helped police track the suspected bandits back to their apartment.

For eons, the term "mama's boy" was widely viewed as an emasculating insult. But numerous men are challenging such inherent misogyny and publicly embracing their identities as proud "mama's boys."

NPR's Miles Parks speaks with TV writer Claudia Forestieri about the new comedy that's loosely based on her life, The Gordita Chronicles.

Florida, Missouri and West Virginia announced their intention to pull out of a voting data consortium called the electronic registration information center or ERIC. Here's why it matters.

The count, by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, comes after more than a decade of a war that's killed at least 350,000 people and displaced millions.

As more people try weight-loss drugs like Wegovy, some skip the brand name and buy compounded semaglutide from online pharmacies. But some of these may not follow state and federal standards.

The holidays are a time to get together with the people you love. And good food and drink is always a part of that.WUSF's Florida Matters considers "food…

Raymond Gunt is profane, rude, heartless and truly the Worst. Person. Ever. Author Douglas Coupland says he's not exactly sure how the character, with no redeeming qualities, came into his mind.

The women of Gee’s Bend have garnered national fame for their quilt making. Two of its artists will speak at the Sarasota Art Museum on Saturday.

Gaza's future is filled with hard questions. Consider these three: Who will govern the territory? Who will provide security? And who will be in charge of the money and reconstruction?

NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant discuss Boston Celtics Jayson Tatum's return to the court from injury and the start of the World Baseball Classic tournament.