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Artist Antonio Alcala gets the stamp of approval for his new USPS postage stamp.

More than three dozen people were killed as two high-speed trains collided in southern Spain.

Two national organizations are joining the effort by Florida Decides Healthcare to expand Medicaid to low-income childless adults in Florida.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler about the privacy issues individuals face if they use Amazon's new health care service, Amazon Clinic.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with WBUR's Walter Wuthmann about updates in the search for missing Titan submersible.

More than half the 400,000 refugees who have fled to Bangladesh are children. That presents a daunting challenge to aid workers.

Rain after big fires last year had whole neighborhoods in Flagstaff, Ariz., sandbagging to protect homes. Near-record snowpack in the mountains are threatening to test larger scale flood controls.

The ultimate clean fuel, at least at first glance, is vegetable oil. Plants make it from sunlight, water, and a greenhouse gas — and they remove carbon dioxide from the air as they grow. The oil is easily converted into fuel for diesel engines. Around the globe there's now a rush toward so-called "biodiesel."

Democratic candidate Barack Obama announced Thursday he won't take part in the public-finance system for the presidential campaign. Obama becomes the first candidate in a general election to opt out of the primary system.

Marco Antonio Hernandez Guevara, who had been working in the U.S. under the H-2A program, is believed to be the first known agriculture worker in the region to die from heat-related causes.

The Legislature will begin its annual session early this year with the hopes of avoiding the chaos and dysfunction that marked the 2015 session and three…

In the Florida Everglades alligators are in trouble. The reptiles are scrawny, weighing 80 percent of what they should. The alligators grow slower,...

John Petrila's health policy class at the University of South Florida is full of undergraduate students glued to their smartphones, tablets and laptops....

The Obama administration promised "significant improvements" in accessing the federal health overhaul website this week, after taking down the system for…

The House and Senate could be headed toward a collision at the end of the legislative session about major health-care issues, including the continued...

As Duke Energy pleaded guilty Thursday in a North Carolina courtroom to nine criminal violations of the federal Clean Water Act, federal prosecutors…

Editor's note: Open enrollment on the federal health insurance marketplace started on Saturday, Nov. 15. The Health News Florida team is kicking off a...

House and Senate leaders announced Saturday they have agreed to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s request for $25 million to help the state combat the spread of the…

In one of the most significant federal trials in Florida – a voting rights case that may affect the outcome of the 2020 presidential election – the…

Florida’s ban on serving alcohol to people in bars will be reevaluated daily, the state’s top business regulator said in a series of tweets over the…

Nearly four months ago, Disney World closed its doors as the coronavirus pandemic gripped the country.This weekend, the theme parks reopen. The Magic…

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Celine Gounder, who was on Biden's Coronavirus Transition Task Force, about the letter she and others wrote criticizing the CDC's current guidance on the coronavirus.

Gloria Hillard recently joined the growing ranks of self-published authors, and reports on the how self-publishing firms are answering a growing desire by writers to see their words in print — and get around the air-tight New York City publishing houses.

In the late 1970s, historian John Lewis Gaddis decided to write a biography of George F. Kennan, the author of the Cold War policy of containment. But the two men agreed it would not be published until after Kennan's death. Neither expected Kennan to live to 101, but now that he's gone, Gaddis has published George F. Kennan: An American Life.

Marty Walsh has been confirmed as labor secretary. The two-term mayor of Boston is also a former union leader — the first one to run the Labor Department in roughly half a century.