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The Senate is hoping for a vote on Monday, but congressional leaders said on Sunday they have yet to reach agreement on what would be the largest bill yet in response to the outbreak.

Behavior clinics that serve children on the autism spectrum were already facing closures because of changes to the state Medicaid system and costly…

Servers and other employees won’t be counted toward limits on occupancy when restaurants reopen Monday under coronavirus guidelines, the state’s top…

Citing concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced Wednesday that fans would not be allowed inside Raymond James Stadium for the first two games of the NFL season.

Don’t look for any favors from this year’s hurricane season.

Mississippi state lawmakers voted to remove and redesign the 126-year-old state flag, which includes the Confederate battle emblem. The governor said he will sign the measure.

"After a thorough review of the facts and evidence surrounding this event, we have concluded that no federal crime was committed," FBI officials said in a statement, Tuesday.

The RNC raised nearly $37 million in June, according to figures shared first with NPR.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is looking to “tweak” one of his coronavirus orders so restaurant wait staff and non-health care workers can get back on the job quicker…

Former President Barack Obama, who had previously stayed out of the 2020 fray, endorsed his former vice president in a video released on Tuesday.

Federal agencies and 16 big pharma companies will collaborate on drugs and vaccines, says Dr. Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said it’s time for professional sports teams to play ball again in Florida.DeSantis, who is still rolling out the first phase of the…

This has been a frustrating week for one of the Legislature's most outspoken members – Sen. Tom Lee (R-Brandon), is in his 20 th year in the chamber,...

Bowers, 46, is a resident of Pittsburgh with a history of making anti-Semitic remarks on social media. Authorities believe he acted alone.

According to the Human trafficking Hotline , Florida ranks third in U.S. in human trafficking cases reported by states, behind only California and Texas.

Florida's Republican-controlled state Senate agreed to pay $900,000 to settle a complaint filed by a high-ranking legislative aide who accused a former…

Gov. Ron DeSantis made his first trip out of Tallahassee aboard an upgraded King Air aircraft that law-enforcement officials had seized in a drug bust....

A Florida detective told investigators the former deputy entrusted to protect a high school where 17 people died in a mass shooting last year gave an...

The State Board of Education is expected Wednesday to approve a report that details a shortage of certified science, English and math teachers in...

Even with a relatively strong economy, the number of high-growth, high-skill, high-paying jobs in Florida isn't where lawmakers like Gov. Ron DeSantis…

A new era in the Medicaid program will begin Friday when the state eliminates a long-standing policy about paying health-care bills that accumulate...

Art Whistler was a botanist and an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii. He traveled the South Pacific, documenting its plants. He died of COVID-19 at the age of 75.

Steven Spielberg's account of the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 is melodrama, but Bob Mondello says it's urgent — and effective.

In the era of social distancing, Italians in Florence have revived the custom of serving wine through pint-size windows in centuries-old buildings.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian, director of the Department of Social Inclusion at the Organization of American States, about the state of Venezuelan migration this year.