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Jamie Harden knows firsthand how Florida Legislative leaders feel about Medicaid expansion. Last year, the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce asked him...

Pianist Jon Batiste has been busy. He's offering three new albums at once: one tribute to Mozart and two tributes to Thelonious Monk.

Mediators try to bridge gaps after Hamas' demands to Biden's cease-fire plan. America's eating champion Joey Chestnut is banned from a NYC hotdog contest after signing with a plant-based meat company.

For the nation's 250th birthday, President Trump and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani had opposing visions of America. And, the U.S. and Belgium face off today in the FIFA World Cup.

Central Florida has gotten its first confirmed case of the travel-related Zika virus. Osceola County is one of seven Florida counties with CDC-confirmed...

Philip Hoare's book, The Whale, is an exploration of the role that the great animals have played in human history, from Moby-Dick to lamp oil to the author's own close encounter with a curious female sperm whale.

Kid President (aka 11-year-old Robby Novak) is an Internet sensation whose sunny, personality-driven YouTube videos have garnered over 75 million views. Now, he's written a book on how to be awesome.

At 92, Cameroon's President aul Biya is running for an eighth term on Sunday — a reminder of how Africa's aging leaders continue to cling to power, even as their nations face unrest, corruption, and calls for change.

A month after Venezuela's deadly earthquakes, the focus is shifting from rescue to rebuilding -- and the costs are staggering.

Believe it or not, some of us need to be taught how to sleep. To live up to our true sleep potential — and all the health benefits that come from a good night's rest — the sleep-troubled need to change their nighttime habits. Sleep expert Dr. Helene Emsellem answers your questions about getting a better night's rest.

Brouwer, one of Latin America's most renowned classical composers, sees music as a form of service. "When [humans] give ... they're doing one of the most beautiful things in life," he says.

Twenty years ago this week, on Thanksgiving Day, a 5-year-old Cuban boy named Elián González was found floating on an inner tube in the Atlantic off...

Democratic U.S. Congressman John Yarmuth of Kentucky will not attend but Democratic Rep. Steve Israel of New York's Third District will. Robert Siegel talks to both Yarmuth and Israel.

The Supreme Court declines to review the case of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen arrested in Chicago and held without charges for more than three years. The government initially declared Padilla an enemy combatant. The justices warned that if Padilla's status changed again, they would return to the case.

Elizabeth Warren faced new scrutiny, Pete Buttigieg controlled multiple exchanges, and the potential conflicts of interest of Joe Biden's son got relatively little focus.

Mitchell compares tweeting the story of his latest novel to escaping a straitjacket. "I like what I had to do to circumvent [Twitter's] restrictions," he says.

One year ago, the Taliban raised their white flag over Afghanistan's capital for the second time. NPR toured the country and spoke to the Taliban and residents about what has happened since.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Susan Glasser, who's covered Washington for decades including now as a columnist for the New Yorker, about how to understand today's Trump verdict.

Philadelphia schools are trying to keep students in surrounding neighborhoods safe from gun violence by offering support and monitors who can escort students home. Students are intervening, too.

Patterson's books have sold over 400 million copies worldwide. He says he often gets ideas for them late at night. His latest, The #1 Dad Book, offers advice for fathers.

The city of St. Petersburg, the Tampa Bay Rays and Pinellas County are making an announcement Tuesday at 10 a.m. that a deal has been finalized to build a new stadium for the team at the current site of Tropicana Field.

Olympic officials say they want "sport appeal, not sex appeal." That's why the head of broadcasting at the Tokyo Games will stop close-ups on female athletes' bodies.

World leaders are discussing how to get climate change under control, but new reports show the post-pandemic rebound and war in Ukraine are driving emissions even higher.

Carlos Alcaraz and Frances Tiafoe engaged in a high-level, high-energy spectacle of a back-and-forth semifinal — no point over when it seemed to be, no ball out of reach, no angle too audacious.

A reporter takes a hike along a bird-rich wilderness trail in the Soda Range high in New York's Adirondack Mountains.