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Thursday was the deadliest day yet for Florida during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Florida Department of Health's Thursday report showed 120…

The CDC has updated its guidance for schools, saying it "now recommends that, with universal masking, students should maintain a distance of at least three feet in classroom settings."

Talley, who worked at Women's Wear Daily and Vogue, was a regular in the front row of fashion shows in New York and Europe. At 6-feet-6 inches tall, he cut an imposing figure wherever he went.

Counties are opening emergency shelters as forecasters project temperatures to drop near or below freezing over the holiday weekend.

President Biden hasn't announced running for office in 2024, we look at signals that he knows which voter base he'll be targeting. We also look an impending sale of nuclear submarines to Australia.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes testified in his own defense Monday, denying he had a role in planning the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack. He and four others are charged with seditious conspiracy.

Edward Zakrzewski, 60, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Thursday following a three-drug injection. Florida has executed more people than any other state this year and has two more executions set for August.

Dana Bowerman is one of about 6,100 prisoners just released as part of a change in the way the U.S. punishes people convicted of federal drug crimes. "It still feels weird, different," she told NPR.

Unions and attorneys who represent federal employees are telling workers not to take the offer from the Trump administration to resign from their jobs by Feb. 6 and still be paid through September.

Vice President Harris gave her closing argument from the spot, the ellipse in front of the White House, that her GOP opponent spoke from on Jan. 6, 2021.

Ben Witten found an unusual rock on an English beach when he was 6. It turned out to be an exceedingly rare hand ax made by Neanderthals, tens of thousands of years ago.

A research team tracked the diets and exposures to air pollution of kids inside Baltimore homes. Children with diets high in omega-3 fatty acids seemed less vulnerable to pollution's effect on asthma.

Not everyone who was part of rap's ascent gets included in its story. MC Sha-Rock, of the original Funky 4 and the Funky 4 + 1, reaffirms her role in hip-hop's formative years as the first woman MC.

Most of the world’s cobalt is extracted in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But to get it, hundreds of thousands of Congolese people labor with no other means to survive. On episode three of On Point’s special series -- cobalt and the human cost of mining.

"We wanted to show the world that people of color can do something like this," says James "KG" Kagambi. He's a great believer in lessons learned from the outdoors — and glad his achy knees made it!

Biden visited Uvalde as DOJ announced a review of how police responded to the attack. There will be a presidential runoff in Colombia. People with serious mental illness struggled during the pandemic.

Newly sworn-in Census Bureau Director Robert Santos told NPR it's important to make sure there are policies in place to better protect the agency from any future political interference.

President Biden announced Judge Jackson, 51, will be his nominee to the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she will be the first Black woman to serve on the high court.

Claims of market manipulation drive national concern over industry consolidation.

Final exams started this past weekend at the University of South Florida, so, armed with a recorder and some very strong coffee, I decided to go around…

Some front-line workers and managers disagree about how and why health care workers are getting sick and, therefore, what level of protective gear is appropriate.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with researchers who've studied the relationship between social media posts and opinions.

Is a stew simply a thick soup? Is soup just a thinner stew? Are the terms synonymous?

The families of Daunte Wright and George Floyd call for justice. States pause using J&J's COVID-19 vaccine. The White House will announce a timeline for the U.S. to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.

People are paying hundreds of dollars for COVID testing because at-home antigen kits and free appointments that offer timely results are scarce.