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On this week's Florida Matters More podcast, host Robin Sussingham is joined by Zac Anderson of the Sarasota Herald Tribune; and WUSF's Steve Newborn.…

Cowboy boots and fishnets might not feel like a natural pairing. But at this weekly queer line dancing night in New York City, that's almost the uniform.

Companies at the center of the deadly prescription opioid epidemic are close to deals that would cap their liability while funding drug treatment and recovery programs.

A day-by-day and hour-by-hour look at the events surrounding the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13.

Linda talks with U-S Representative David Skaggs (D, CO) about the lawsuit he and five other members of Congress filed, challenging the constitutionality of the new law which gives the President line-item veto power. Skaggs believes the line-item veto law tips the balance of power in favor of the executive branch and away from Congress.

Data centers used to fuel AI are popping up all over the U.S., and they're becoming a midterm issue for voters that's now drawing White House attention.

Now that the line-item veto has passed through both houses of Congress, it is expected that President Clinton will sign the bill, which will give the executive branch the power to cross out select lines of the federal budget, rather than vetoing the entire budget. We have a discussion about the implications of the passage of line-item veto...about its effects on the balance of power between executive and legislative branches, and if indeed it will help the president balance te budget. Linda talks with Robert Reischauer (RYESH-how-er), a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, as well with James Thurber, director for the Congressional and Presidential Studies at Amercian University.

While six retired military generals have come out in the past weeks calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to step down, no active generals have followed suit. Time magazine reporter and commentator Douglas Waller offers some historical perspective on speaking out against a senior official.

Consumers want more options than the standard queen room. That's driven hotel chains into the home-rental business, while Airbnb is looking to make inroads into the hotel business.

President Clinton signed the line-item veto bill today. It will allow a president to eliminate specific items in spending legislation, as well as very narrow tax loopholes and new entitlements. The new law, which presidents have called for for decades, goes into effect next January and will expire in eight years unless Congress extends it. Proponents say it will help cut the deficit. But NPR's Mara Liasson reports that many analysts are skeptical about the line-item veto's effectiveness.

Two years after congress passed the Children's On-line Protection Act, the law to regulate internet pornography is still held up in court. But the COPA commission has been meeting regularly to find suggestions to the problem. They release their findings today. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

A House select committee on Tuesday holds its first public hearing into the Jan, 6 insurrection, with testimony from four police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from rioters.

Folklorist Stephen Wade traces the origin of "The Rock Island Line." It was a hit for Lonnie Donnegan ("The King of Skiffle") in 1956. He got it from an old recording by Leadbelly who was at the session when it was first recorded on this date in 1934 by John Lomax at an Arkansas penal farm.

When the new Republican-led Congress convenes in January, President Clinton will possess a power that presidents have yearned for since the days of Ulysses Grant -- the line item veto. But NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that lawmakers from the president's own party are hoping to strip Clinton of this powerful fiscal tool before Congress convenes.

About a fifth of adults in the U-S are using the Internet and the World Wide Web, a number which is growing daily. Many of these people get some of their news from on-line newspapers that are spinoffs of regular daily papers. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times all have some presence on the Web, but the on-line editions do not have the circulation or the advertising revenue to match their print equivalents, and most do not make any profit at all. Robert talks to editors and advertising researchers about the possible financial futures of publishing on the Web.

Checkpoints have sprung up across Ukraine since Russia's invasion. Men at a checkpoint near Lviv have Molotov cocktails ready. Even hundreds of miles from the battles, the war hangs over everything.

Renee Montagne talks with Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about South Africa's 10-day goodbye to Nelson Mandela. His body will lie in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the scene of his presidential inauguration in 1994.

In New York City, construction has begun on one of the most unusual and innovative parks in the nation. The High Line project will transform an abandoned railroad overpass that spans 22 blocks on Manhattan's West Side into an urban promenade of green parkland.

Two sources familiar with the search for a new director of the agency tell NPR that James B. Comey is in line to succeed outgoing chief Robert Mueller. Comey was the No. 2 official at the Justice Department in the George W. Bush administration.

Robert Siegel speaks with Brock Meeks, Washington correspondent for WIRED Magazine and HotWired, about the computer service America Online. At first a very successful on-line service, AOL is finding the Internet itself a source of competition. AOL offers members an environment of online services including access to the Internet but the Internet and its panoply of service providers is overshadowing AOL.

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Field recordings, flowing strings, and blues-infused melodies shape Trevor Weston’s Legacy Works. These reimagined spirituals, from There is a Balm in Gilead to Run to Jesus, blur the lines between tradition and transformation.Then: What does up sound like? D. Riley Nicholson explores the idea from every angle in his piece UP — spiraling up the circle of fifths, building energy, and tumbling through dizzying piano textures that never stop climbing.

Daniel talks to Gregory Williams, author of the book, "Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black." The book deals with Williams' discovery, as a ten-year-old Virginia schoolboy during the 1950's, that his father was really black and he, therefore, was also black. Williams recounts his ostracism from white society, his personal conflicts and his ultimate embrace of his black identity.

Robert talks with Marshall Goldman, the associate director of the Davis Center of Russian research at Harvard University and a professor of economics at Wellesley College. They'll discuss who might be in line to take over for Boris Yeltsin, as the Russian president's health continues to be a concern. The recent election left no clear successor, and the current Russian rules do not specify who should take over in the event that the President is incapacitated...although there are clear guidelines for who would be in control if the President should die.

Day to Day technology expert Xeni Jardin reports about the impact that digital camera technology has had on the war in Iraq.

Don't Tap the Glass is a bit of a left turn: a hyperkinetic, summertime LP with an urgent appeal to move the masses.