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Major Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida's Gulf Coast and expected to make landfall on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm's arrival.

On an icy night in 1984, a commuter plane crashed in the wilderness. Six passengers died, but four survived: the pilot, a politician, a policeman and a prisoner. Carol Shaben's Into the Abyss describes their fight to make it through that frigid night alive.

What happens when gold turns to silver for the U.S. women's water polo team?

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin about why some Republican governors are opting out of receiving federal unemployment benefits for their state.

Aunties, beware — Maria Qamar's got your number. The Pakistani Canadian comedian's new book, Trust No Aunty, is a rollicking guide to dealing with the interfering older women in your life.

An uptick in ransomware attacks has led more companies to buy cybersecurity insurance. But some bad actors actually target companies with this coverage, figuring they'll be more likely to pay ransoms.

With 101 people still missing after the July 4 flash flood, the focus turns to local lakes, and what may be buried in them.

What do you get when you put 40 high-energy New Yorkers in a tiny Brooklyn kitchen and tell them all to cook dinner? Chaos. We check out a monthly gathering aptly named "Chaos Cooking."

Students graduating from college are entering perhaps the toughest, most uncertain job market in generations. Melanie Singer was among them. When she graduated from college in 2010 with a degree in accounting, she thought it would be easy to find a job; it turned out to be anything but.

John Kerry, Biden's special envoy for climate, says climate change is an existential crisis. "And the question is, are we behaving as if it is? And the answer is no."

Public health officials want more Americans to get the latest COVID vaccine booster. Only 35% of people over 65 have gotten the shot, though 75% of COVID deaths are among people in this age group.

When Vietnamese immigrants first arrived in Texas, they received a hostile reception from locals who were concerned about competition. Now that immigrant community is thriving.

Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, was pronounced dead at 8:15 p.m. Thursday following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was the fourth person executed this year in Florida.

The veteran reporter became one of Hollywood's top journalists as founder of the entertainment trade website Deadline.com. She was the most-feared columnist in show business.

Gogol Bordello mixes punk, ska and jazz with the traditional music of the Roma people. Band members bring their Eastern European roots and instruments to NPR's Studio 4A for a performance chat.

From Mexico to Panama and El Salvador, several recent elections in Latin America could mean a shift in migration policy and collaboration with the United States.

Even though enrollment is dwindling in Pinellas County schools, its English Language Learner population continues to grow.

The U.S., and much of the world, has settled into a scorching weekend with temperatures reaching well over a hundred in the Southwest.

On TikTok, #IStandWithAmberHeard has garnered about 8.2 million views, while #JusticeForJohnnyDepp has earned about 15 billion views. A sociologist offers her views on the reasons why.

Lawmakers had a number of scares in recent years: a shooting at a GOP baseball practice, the pandemic and the Jan. 6 attack. But there are no clear plans for Congress to function in a catastrophe.

After nearly 100 years, a collection of antiquities from the Inca site of Machu Picchu is going home. The artifacts have been at the center of a long and bitter custody battle between the government of Peru and Yale University.

In her final weeks in office, Brown commuted the sentences of all 17 people on death row in the state. Capital punishment is legal in Oregon, though its last execution was in 1997.

The mission of Florida Humanities is to help Floridians make sense of this complex, dynamic state by elevating stories about its culture, history and literature. A new book, "Once Upon a Time in Florida," celebrates the organization's golden anniversary.

How a shortage of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals affects the region, and efforts to train more doctors to meet the need.

Former Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings charts what he calls "the wide, weird world of geography" in his latest book, Maphead. He profiles Google Maps engineers, geocachers, imaginary mapmakers, map collectors, geography bee contestants and "road geeks."