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In Hillsborough County, the way people voted in 2008 — for or against President Obama — signals their perception of everything that's happened since and, usually, the way they intend to vote. In this swing county hit hard by the financial crisis, the rarest voter is a person who's changed his mind.

Maggie O'Farrell recounts the multiple times she cheated death in her memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am. "We're different people afterwards," she says. "These experiences always take up residence inside us."

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Ezra producer Alex Plank and screenwriter Tony Spiridakis -- who said the story comes from his own life with his son -- about portraying autistic people in their film.

NASA is facing a tight budget and wants to wrap up the Chandra X-ray Observatory, but astronomers don't want to see the 25-year-old X-ray space telescope mission go.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back on the air tonight -- but roughly a quarter of ABC stations in the country won't be showing it.

Kicking off a week of stories on Morning Edition about the extraordinarily talented children often known as prodigies,

The U.S. Women's Deaf National Soccer Team is an international powerhouse that most Americans don't know about. They played their first-ever game in the U.S. over the weekend.

Dunham says when she started writing HBO's Girls, she was drawn to characters with "a bit of a Zelda Fitzgerald lost, broken woman quality." Her new essay collection is called Not That Kind of Girl.

Torture is never acceptable, but it's a reality that should be covered by rules, Alan Dershowitz says. The lawyer and Harvard Law School professor says the president should be held responsible for acts of torture and be required to sign torture warrants.

A group of Florida doctors has been charging Medicare at a surprisingly high rate. A ProPublica investigation analyzed a recently released Medicare...

Deadly wildfires tear across two islands in Hawaii. The latest inflation report is expected to show rising prices. A drug company lobbies Congress to get Medicare to cover its weight loss drugs.

More than 12,000 Polk County seniors are estimated to need help with daily activities, but families and providers say cost and logistics often put care out of reach.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Sergio Martínez-Beltrán and Kat Lonsdorf share how they reported on the aftermath of deadly flooding, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

Basie came to New York City in 1936, and used elements of blues and jazz in the newer sounds of swing and big band.

Florida Matters met with the mayor in his St. Pete City Hall office, where he discussed topics including the Rays and Tropicana Field redevelopment.

After winning praise for aggressively tackling COVID-19 early on in the pandemic, critics say South Korea's government is breaking its own rules, and is handling a third wave of cases timidly.

From revenue to consumer protections, a look at the landscape of legal sports betting one year after its rollout in Florida.

Hillary Clinton is making history as the first female nominee of a major U.S. political party. But for many this milestone doesn't feel like a big deal, in part because of her long experience.

Writer and student Detrice Jones reads from "Just Surviving Another Day," her semi-autobiographical story about a teen struggling with her parents' crack addiction. The story is featured in The Cocaine Chronicles, a new collection of short stories about the drug's impact on America.

Karen Russell's new book imagines a mysterious insomnia epidemic so serious that many are dying from lack of sleep. But the cure — sleep donations from babies — is hard to swallow.

President Trump spent much of the week on the defense after major setbacks ranging from the courts and the economy to foreign policy.

Until now, only Orthodox Jewish men in Israel have been allowed to take exams to become rabbis. After a long campaign, women can now also take the test - but still can't become rabbis

Kelly Link says the stories in her new collection Get in Trouble employ "night time logic." It's not quite dream logic, she tells NPR — nonsensical, but it has "a kind of emotional truth to it."

Quinton Lucas says marijuana is often a pretext for police stops that disproportionately affect Black people. While pushing for local reforms, he doubts the possibility of larger, lasting change.

The University of South Florida football team had one of its most eventful weekends in recent times, first with Saturday's announcement that head coach…