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Florida's unemployment is dropping slightly.The June unemployment rate was 5.5 percent, compared to 5.7 percent the month before. The state added 7,000…

About 6 million households in California face water restrictions this summer. But after years of drought conditions, some residents are adapting by planting yards that use less water.

A team of British climbers used xenon gas to decrease the 6 to 8 weeks usually needed to acclimate to the thin air on the world's highest mountain.

The current rate is 6%. It would reduce annual state tax revenue by $5 billion.

The U.S. economy gained momentum in the second quarter as consumers and businesses picked up their spending. Gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 2.6 percent.

Record-breaking hailstones have been documented in recent years, with extreme stones reaching up to 6 to 7 inches in diameter falling in states like Texas and Colorado.

As a child, Jeannie Peeper was diagnosed with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, an extremely rare disease that causes a second skeleton to grow inside the body. Peeper and science writer Carl Zimmer discuss the efforts of a small group to fund research to battle the disease.

One hundred years ago today, a hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing at least 6,000 people on the island, and another 4 to 6,000 on the mainland.

The Jan. 6 committee releases its final report. A major storm threatens holiday travel.

The state reported 6,586 people tested positive for COVID-19 since Saturday, bringing the total to 938,414 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. It's the first time in six days the number of new cases in the state was less than 7,400.

The state reported 6,331 people tested positive for COVID-19 since Sunday. It's the lowest number of cases reported in a single day in about a week.

The change begins on Friday, Feb. 6. Language translation services will also no longer be allowed.

The 32,636 cases added since last Friday is the highest weekly sum since Feb. 27-March 5.

Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly invoked executive privilege as attempts to block testimony about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group has been sentenced to more than three years behind bars for joining a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol nearly three years ago. A South Florida activist has also been charged with storming the Capitol building on Jan. 6 with a Proud Boys member.

From boat parades to joyful serenades, here are the important events you need to know for this year’s holiday season.

John Lansing will succeed Jarl Mohn as NPR's next CEO. Lansing is currently chief executive of the government agency that oversees Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, among others.

Here’s a look back at some culinary memories that lingered and still put a smile on my face.

Democrats want to push a health care message; Republicans had been planning to talk about tax cuts. But not much is breaking through, except Trump, who is top of everyone's minds.

Trump has run a highly unpredictable GOP campaign, and his vice presidential choice is likely to be the same. Here are some of his top prospects.

Alaska and Maine use ranked choice voting in elections. Four other states could soon join them. We learn why more states are considering ranked-choice voting.

Canon-making is a core part of rap fandom, the subject of endless barbershop parleys and message-board battles. But something curdles when the companies that control the music business enter the chat.

The website Rest of World got entries from 45 countries for a photo contest focusing on technology. Here are their top picks — from facial scans for migrants to kids in a Mongolian tent transfixed by a film.

At Sunday night's Grammys, will Beyoncé finally win album of the year? Will Taylor Swift take that prize for the fifth time? Or will a new generation of pop stars claim the moment?

Chelsea Gallo is The Florida Orchestra’s resident conductor. She spoke with WSMR’s Susan Giles Wantuck in November as part of Classical WSMR's online series, "Meet your musical neighbor.”