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The transition from military veteran to successful chef seems more likely to occur on a TV sitcom than in real life. But that's the story of Phyllis Kendall, who traded her Air Force cap for a white chef's toque.

The region hasn't experienced such dry conditions for decades. Restrictions are in place to further limit outdoor watering.

The mass shooting at a Sweet 16 celebration last weekend rocked the small city of Dadeville, Ala. It was even more gut-wrenching at Dadeville High School, where two of the victims attended.

Paul O'Sullivan of Baltimore was perusing social media, and friending people who shared his name. Some were musicians like him. They've formed The Paul O'Sullivan Band and released their first single.

Transportation Security Administration officers continue to work without pay. Morning Edition visited five major cities to check out security lines at six different airports.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says that while confidence in COVID-19 vaccines has risen, there's more work to do in convincing people, especially in rural communities, to get the shots.

When the pop star got involved in saving an elephant in an Islamabad zoo, detailed in a new documentary, she also had to fight an uncomfortable feeling: "I kept saying, "'I'm just an entertainer.'"

Kaiser Health News chats with doctors around the country to see how they would be affected if Congress fails to stop a 21 percent cut in their Medicare payments.

Bending the Arc, a program created by the Boxser Diversity Initiative in Sarasota, offers high school students in Sarasota and Manatee counties an immersive education in civil rights history.

BayCare Health System's 15 Tampa Bay area hospitals will start allowing visitors Wednesday.

If waiting for help when your car breaks down doesn't strike you as a leisurely activity, it may be time to reconsider. A new book looks at time management challenges of being a working parent.

Evening Masterworks: Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 3 in C, Op. 52

How's the Louisiana senator responding to GOP efforts to tie her to the Affordable Care Act's problems? Partly with an ad that gives her outsize credit for President Obama's decision to change course and let people keep health plans next year that would otherwise be canceled under the new law.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Calvin Duncan, creator of a new project that invites the public to sit face-to-face with people serving life without the possibility of parole.

For decades, Irish nuns ran homes for unwed mothers. Beneath one of them, a ghastly discovery: 796 babies buried in a septic tank. Forensics experts are now unearthing Ireland's past.

This thick, creamy stew features 12 "grains" to represent the Twelve Apostles and cod to denote Jesus. It takes days and many hands to prepare, a meal befitting Ecuador's elaborate Lenten traditions.

President Carter delivered a crucial speech on July 15, 1979. As we look back at his life and administration -- what does his so called "malaise" speech say about Carter?

Philippe Lazzarini has visited Gaza three times since the war began. He says each time he can't imagine the situation could get more desperate — and then it does.

St. Pete Catalyst’s Thursday guide to Tampa Bay entertainment and the arts.

Florida's abortion legal landscape is getting a shake-up from the 6-week ban being signed into law to drugs possibly taken from clinics. Here's what you need to know.

The controversial French film depicts children using their bodies in a sexual manner.

Assisted living facilities are slated to get 100,000 kits to test staff and visitors, and 180,000 are going to retirement communities, including Sun City Center.

You'll never suffer from writer's block as long as you've got a copy of Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots. Prolific pulp novelist William Wallace Cook turned his fiction production methods into a wacky manual for aspiring writers. Originally published in 1928, it has just been reissued.

In their new book, Annoying: The Science Of What Bugs Us, NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca and Science Friday's Flora Lichtman set out to examine why certain things — and people — drive us bananas.

Last weekend, English soccer fans were looking forward to a sporting feast. They ended up taking part in a nationwide communal vigil, focused on an African-born player's fight for life.