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Right now, Florida’s top educator is two steps removed from voters. The state education commissioner is appointed by a board and that board is appointed…

The school argues that it exercised its contractual right to deny the Robinson children enrollment in 2021, as school officials determined it was in the "best interest of the school."

The decision by Judge Caroline Wall dashes an effort to obtain a measure of legal justice by survivors of the deadly racist rampage that left hundreds of Black residents dead in 1921.

Evidence shows hospice care can extend life and save money, but only if patients and doctors dare ask for the help. One New Yorker said hospice gave her back life at peace, pain subdued.

The Interior Department proposed reviving a suite of changes to Endangered Species Act regulations first made during the Republican's first term. Those changes were reversed under former President Biden.

A new California law will allow low-income teens on Medicaid to get therapy without parental approval. That's already allowed for teens on private insurance. But the change aroused opposition.

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two decades, according to an independent report.

When former President Bill Clinton met with George W. Bush before leaving office, he told his successor that Osama bin Laden, the Middle East and North Korea posed more of a threat to U.S. national security than Iraq, Clinton says. In the first part of a two-part interview, Clinton also tells NPR's Juan Williams that bin Laden dominated intelligence discussions at the White House.

In his book 'I Seek a Kind Person', longtime Guardian journalist Julian Borger tells the stories of Viennese Jewish children who escaped the Holocaust thanks to adverts placed by their parents in The Guardian, back when it used to be called the Manchester Guardian. Among those children was Boger's own father.

A House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and named after Elon Musk's government-efficiency team has set its sights on the public broadcasters.

There has been very little diplomacy during the course of the war in Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine are seeking battlefield advantage before negotiating.

NPR's Alina Selyukh speaks with Andrew Callaghan about his new HBO film "This Place Rules," a personal look at the conspiracies and events leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has issued five new subpoenas for witnesses lawmakers want to hear from, in addition to 40 witnesses subpoenaed already.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. John Heaton of LCMC Health about the uptick in vaccinations in Louisiana amid a surge in coronavirus infections.

Today, Eleanor Flood will only wear yoga clothes for yoga — which today she will actually attend. Novelist Maria Semple says her frazzled heroine "has decided ... to set the bar very low for herself."

According to the Florida Department of Health's daily report, the Tampa Bay area recorded its highest daily increase in deaths Tuesday.The state's report…

Another 5,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Florida, the state health department reported on Thursday.Though it’s a decrease from…

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer about the ICC's application for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Gov. Ron DeSantis called on the Florida Legislature to allocate $230 million to cancer-centered initiatives championed by his wife and breast cancer survivor, Casey.

The Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line and cowboy love story Brokeback Mountain won top awards at the Golden Globe Awards in Hollywood Monday night. The television drama and comedy awards went, respectively, to Lost and Desperate Housewives.

Some top researchers now say that climate change has led to stronger hurricanes. Now, there's a push to expand the wind scale to include a Category 6 for winds as powerful as those seen last year.

The acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police testified that the intelligence about the threat on Jan. 6 was not relayed and that the former chief pressed for help from the National Guard.

A legislative package, rolled out by Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo and two key lieutenants, calls for spending nearly $900 million to, among other things, shift patients away from emergency rooms, offset hospitals’ training costs and help doctors pay off debt.

Kathy Kleinfeld with Houston Women's Reproductive Services discusses the tangible impact that Texas' restrictive new abortion law is already having on her clinic and would-be patients.