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Chocolate lovers won't see a sudden price spike for Valentine's Day — because the cost already has been rising for months. Extreme weather is largely to blame.

In January, President Biden visited Pittsburgh, Pa., hours before a bridge collapsed. He returned to that bridge for the midterms to tout his economic blueprint.

Florida's economy thrived in 2024, outperforming the national average despite hurricane losses, according to a University of Central Florida economist Sean Snaith.

For eight decades, a chocolate factory filled a Chicago neighborhood with a delicious aroma, and jobs. Now it's leaving town.

The bestselling religious author Hal Lindsey died last month. His book The Late Great Planet Earth galvanized a generation of young evangelicals and is still influential today.

Social Security benefits are facing an automatic cut in less than 10 years unless changes are adopted. The report from Social Security trustees predicts the fund will be exhausted in November of 2033.

While the bill would make changes to the five water management districts, it also deals heavily with Everglades restoration.

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket but lost contact minutes into the test flight.

Thirty-seven nations Compete in Europe's Song Contest: Kitsch, Peace, Politics. The countries hope their entry will be named best song of 2024, though some of the greatest drama happens offstage.

We know that we live in an ever-changing world, but one thing we often overlook is demographic change. Whether the world's population is growing or shrinking can affect many aspects of our lives, from the number of kids we have to the likelihood that we'll live to old age. This week on Hidden Brain, we explore how our planet's population is changing, and what that means for us in the century to come.

Journalist Tim Butcher's new book traces the footsteps of Gavrilo Princip, the young Serbian revolutionary who famously sparked World War I by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

The charges are separate from two felony exposure charges Piccolo already faces in Manatee County.

Mount Spurr in Alaska is likely to erupt soon. So people are buying goggles and masks to protect themselves from ash — and also pet versions to protect their dogs.

The Senate on Friday released a proposed $117.36 billion budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year that includes $200 million directed toward the citrus industry.

Expert points to population growth, construction boom, high interest rates and skyrocketing insurance premiums.

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood is suing the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its board of directors, which include the president and three of his children. The lawsuit alleges "unlawful political coordination" between the foundation and Trump's 2016 campaign.

A group of Democratic senators and Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller hosted a Pride celebration at the Kennedy Center Monday evening. But the Kennedy Center had nothing to do with programming it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel has spent years on high school reading lists. How are literature professors teaching it today? And do students still find it relevant?

Uthmeier is running in 2026 to keep the job he was appointed to and have some wondering whether he'd face a challenge from other Florida Republicans.

Until now, a 250-year-old encoded text titled the Copiale Cipher baffled cryptographers and historians with bizarre symbols and seemingly random letters. Computer scientist Kevin Knight and two Swedish researchers have broken the code to the 105-page manuscript, and NPR's Daniel Hajek reports on what the Cipher revealed.

Republicans say the bill would keep age-inappropriate books off school shelves. Opponents warn it would dramatically boost book removals in Florida — again.

House Republicans released a short-term spending bill to fund the government until late November but Democrats are calling for further changes.

Many of the people who fled the wildfires in Southern California had little time to decide which possessions to take with them.

American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died this week at 29 years old — just two weeks shy of his 30th birthday. His peers remember him as humble despite his immense skill.

Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which has metastasized to the bone, according to a statement from his personal office.