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A proposal in the Legislature would give some employers tax incentives to help full-time workers pay for a down payment or the closing costs on a home.

Once part of Digable Planets, Butler continues to be a hip-hop innovator. He stays connected to new music through his son Jazz, who records as Lil Tracy.

The Florida congressman is proud to be the one to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. That move hasn't won him any prizes with House Republicans but his constituents want to see more just like it.

If a constitutional amendment to significantly reduce or eliminate property taxes were on the ballot, 65% would support that. Only 15% oppose it, with 20% unsure.

Warren Colazzo is in the business of beautiful people. As the co-owner of Thee Dollhouse gentlemen's club in Tampa, Colazzo is expecting some major…

The price of vanilla is 10 times higher than it was a few years ago. That's bringing unimagined wealth to local villages — and problems as well.

Competition was fierce at the Rubik's Cube world championship in Brazil. There was a 4-year-old and a category for those who do it with their feet. The overall winner needed less than 6 seconds.

Brandon Jackson spent 25 years in a prison following a split-jury conviction. Now Jackson is on parole and wants to help others who were convicted in the same way.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica about how a trove of IRS information shows that billionaires are paying little in income tax compared to their massive wealth.

The airport released renderings of Airside D, which will serve domestic and international flights.

A report from the Bipartisan Policy Center suggests that seniors should start paying more for Medicare to help the nation's deficit. It also wants the government to check the growth of both Medicare and Medicaid programs in the future.

The leaders of six journalism schools discuss the ongoing media bloodbath, the cost of a journalism degree, and how to prepare journalists for the future.

The U.S. cancer death rate dropped more than 2% between 2016 and 2017, the biggest single-year drop ever, according to the American Cancer Society. Better treatment for lung cancer is a factor.

Host Deepa Fernandes recently took a trip back to Sydney, to visit family. And while listening to the radio, she heard broadcasters acknowledging the indigenous land they were on.

Cervical cancer among Haitian Americans in Miami is four times higher than Florida's rate. Vaccination against HPV, and better screening, could help — if it's done in a culturally competent way.

When a video game store closed in 1998, hundreds of sealed Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis cartridges were stored and forgotten. Now, a collection of the top-graded items has been appraised.

Kevin Roose's Young Money follows a group of new college graduates trying to make it on Wall Street in the era after the 2008 financial crash. What motivated them to give up their lives, to work 100-hour weeks and endure sneers when the reputation of big finance was at its lowest? And, most importantly, how did the experience change them?

When living things cross into new territory, they are often viewed as threats. But Sonia Shah, who has written a new book — The Next Great Migration -- says the "invaders" are just following biology.

Interim coach Billy Gonzales says the younger Spurrier will be more involved with quarterback DJ Lagway when the Gators play No. 5 Georgia in Jacksonville on Nov. 1.

Music critic James Sullivan reviews What's Next to the Moon, a CD by Mark Kozelek. (4:00) The CD is distributed by the Badman Recording Company, San Francisco, Calif.; www.badmanrecordingco.com.

There's no reason not to eat well, even in tough economic times. Three cookbooks conjure deliciously simple dinners from the most ordinary of ingredients.

Poet Ouyang Yu imagines an Olympic event in which he lifts up just one extraordinary word. "The magic of the word is that, when well lifted, it has the power to transform," Yu says.

The long-awaited "Google phone" has arrived. The G1 phone carries Google's Android software and runs on T-Mobile networks. Though its touch screen and online integration make the G1 analogous to Apple's iPhone, the Android platform is open for use by multiple phone developers.

Forecasts of snow and ice as far south as Georgia have put a big part of the region on an emergency preparedness footing as shoppers scoured store shelves and crews raced to treat highways and roads.

The impact of the drug on the virus is being studied, but there is not yet evidence from medical trials — and there have been some warnings about side effects from taking the medicine.