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The summer of 2024 was extremely hot and drought-free. The summer of 2025 has been hot, and a severe drought has affected over 6 million people in southeastern Florida. What changed this year?

Sotheby's in New York will be auctioning the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

Grapefruit League changes include reduced seating, schedules based on geography, and restrictions on the type of face coverings that can be worn. Here's a team-by-team guide of what fans can expect.

Harper Moyski, age 10, and Fletcher Merkel, age 8, were killed, and 18 children between the ages 6 and 15 were injured by a shooter. Middle schoolers acted heroically to protect others, a parent said.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Kathleen Belew, the author of Bring the War Home, about potential threats from the white power and militia movements on Inauguration Day.

A 1900 hurricane that left at least 6,000 people dead has had a long-lasting impact on Galveston, Texas. Paul Burka, a Galveston native who is senior executive editor of Texas Monthly, tells Scott Simon about the storm.

The Florida Department of Education says the statewide graduation rate for the 2024-2025 school year was 92.2%.

An emergency meeting early Friday was called after a legal window opened for the board to go back to its Aug. 6 decision to postpone school reopening.

Bear hunting has long been controversial in Florida, with the last hunt held in 2015. The commission on Aug. 13 approved this year’s hunt, which is scheduled from Dec. 6 to Dec. 28.

The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.

The game should be two complete, deep basketball teams going at each other. Fans hope that's how it turns out.

Liz Cheney won her House seat big in 2020. But splitting with Trump over election legitimacy and chairing the Jan. 6 hearings has her trailing a pro-Trump challenger by 20 points in a recent poll.

Going into the conventions for both parties, Hillary Clinton has a distinct advantage. But do the Baton Rouge police shootings, the recent terror-related incidents or these next two weeks change that?

The Labor Department reports that the nation's unemployment rate rose 6.5 percent last month. The number of jobs lost were a lot higher than expected. The report indicates that the downturn in the economy this year has been even deeper and more dramatic than most economists had expected. The jobless rate is at a 14-year high.

The reverberations from Thursday's presidential debate continue, alongside consequential Supreme Court rulings.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld laws in roughly half the states that ban transgender medical care for minors. The vote was 6-to-3, along ideological lines.

A new report from a left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that upcoming changes to Social Security will amount to a "45-mile trip for some 6 million seniors."

The UNAIDS annual report warns that Trump-era HIV funding cuts could lead to 6 million more infections and 4 million deaths by 2029 — as low-income countries struggle to fill the gap.

Democrats are aiming to make gains in North Carolina in 2024. And that path to victory in the state runs through its small towns and youngest voters. Here's where some of them stand.

The super-producer whose beats moved the boundaries of Top 40 radio is chasing a new revolution: digital superstars and the erasure of artistic process as we know it.

The sheer volume of loss felt by the music world in 2020 is almost overwhelming. Here is NPR's tribute to dozens of the musicians — founders and innovators across genres — who died this year.

Flags like some of those carried by January 6th rioters have been spotted flying outside homes belonging to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, raising concerns among judicial watchdogs.

The BBC has apologized to President Trump for the way it edited his Jan. 6, 2021, speech but says it won't pay compensation. Trump has threatened a $1 billion lawsuit against the British broadcaster.

Disinformation — about the Jan. 6 attack, COVID-19, vaccines, etc. — shaped the nation's politics in 2021 and likely will continue to do so throughout the coming year.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to law professor Kim Wehle about the Democratic-led U.S. House voting to hold the former Trump White House chief of staff in criminal contempt of Congress.