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When asked why they flights were postponed, DeSantis’ communications director, Taryn Fenske, noted that Florida has been busy dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

Mike Dank, a technical engineer, started a phone collective in Philadelphia which is installing free pay phones in the city to make communication more accessible.

Thousands of guitar students lost a valuable resource last week. The most popular guitar teacher on YouTube saw his more than 100 videos yanked from the site. The reason: a music company accused him of copyright infringement for an instructional video on how to play a Rolling Stones song.

Tchaikovsky felt the story of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin so deeply that it led him to both enter an ill-fated marriage — and write an opera.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials made the announcement in St. Petersburg following comments from animal rights advocates.

DeSantis sent a letter to the State Board of Administration Thursday and said “all options are on the table” in its response to Dylan Mulvaney’s Instagram post of a video of her opening a Bud Light.

Richard Shryock, is chairman of Virginia Tech's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. He reflects on the impact of Monday's attacks, including the deaths of instructors Jamie Bishop and Jocelyne Couture.

Singaporean national Saridewi Djamani, 45, was convicted in 2018 of trafficking over 30 grams of heroin. She is first woman to be hanged since 2004.

Heather Church will never forget the day, many years ago, when she tripped on the stairs in a busy clothing store. Before her head could hit the ground, someone caught her.

The annual enrollment period for privately run Medicare Advantage plans and prescription drug benefits starts Saturday, rather than in mid-November as in past years. The deadline for enrollment has also been pushed up — to Dec. 7 from Dec. 31.

Twenty years ago, Gene Luen Yang taught high school and wrote comics on the side. Now, he's the author of American Born Chinese and other bestsellers. He says comic books belong in every classroom.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we heard from some Florida voters about what’s on their minds ahead of the 2024 presidential election, and spoke to veteran Capitol reporter Mary Ellen Klas about Florida’s influence on national politics.

An auction in London Tuesday focused on costumes from period dramas, including one very special item: The very shirt Colin Firth wore in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Police began making dozens of arrests after Columbia University's president asked for help clearing protesters — citing the "encampment and related disruptions pose a clear and present danger."

The FAA says Boeing informed the agency in April that required inspections to confirm that the wings were properly bonded to the carbon fiber fuselage on certain 787 jets were not completed.

The Florida Supreme Court said in a ruling on Thursday that the type of petition the opponents had filed was the wrong vehicle for challenging the compact between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration.

Hundreds of faith leaders in Florida and throughout the country have pledged to write their local representatives to ask for more humanitarian aid for Haiti.

State Senator Darryl Rouson blocked consideration of the bill in the Senate.

Researchers estimate the cave is at least 130 feet wide and tens of yards long.

Canadian-American activist Paul Watson was en route to the North Pacific on a mission to intercept a new Japanese whaling ship when police boarded his vessel.

The 60-year-old woman, who has not been named, was near the Old Faithful Geyser at the Wyoming national park this week when she stepped through a thin crust over scalding water, park officials said.

The Morning Edition Book Club listeners can put their questions to the novelist Lauren Groff, author of the latest selection, "Fates And Furies." Renee Montagne explains how to submit a question.

PolitiFact FL, a partnership with WLRN, will be live fact-checking the first 2024 presidential debate Sept. 10 in Philadelphia between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

The claim was made in a new AARP sponsored report from the University of South Florida. The Florida Health Care Association counters saying those trends are a function of the post-COVID workforce environment and NOT the result of efforts to "modernize staffing standards."

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) TrophyCatch program has deployed bright pink research tags in bass across five waters throughout the state: the Northwest Winter Haven Chain of Lakes, Lake Lochloosa, Lake Beauclair, Lake Okeechobee and Porter Lake.