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As the summer comes to a close, NPR's Stephen Thompson looks back to see which of his predictions for which songs would rule the summer came true.

Independence, Kan., has a dwindling population. Many businesses have closed up shop and the city's hospital shut down in 2015. But the folks who live there remain proud of their town and its history.

The politics and dynamics influencing Israel's top leaders, and how that could shape the course of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

A political update from Erie, Pa., which has been pivotal to, and a bellwether of, presidential election outcomes.

Your Florida asked people statewide what issues they want lawmakers to tackle this legislative session. Here's what some folks had to say.

Automotive crash test dummies are born in Ohio, brought to "life" near Detroit, and then sent around the world to make cars safer.

In 2024, Romania, an upper middle income European country, had over 30,000 cases — putting it on the world's top ten measles list. Its vaccination rate hovers around 60%. How did this happen?

NPR's reporters on the ground in Italy reflect on a far-flung, jam-packed Winter Olympics.

The nearly $111 billion marriage would unite Paramount and Warner film studios, streamers and television properties — including CNN — under the control of the wealthy Ellison family.

Vonn defied her doubters to race in the Olympics on a torn ACL, but her comeback dream ended with a broken left leg. Most people would want to hide after such a setback — but Vonn isn't most people.

You can't always know that it's a great year for new music while it's happening, but there was a sense from the very start of 2024 that we were in for a ride.

Teachers, a fisherman, stay-at-home moms, an off-duty police officer. Here's what we've learned about everyone who died in Sunday's massacre.

Margaret Atwood's new book The Year of the Flood describes a dystopic world full of evil corporations, barbaric criminals and science gone wrong. She talks about the real science in the novel and what can be done to keep her fiction from becoming reality.

The district reports a loss of 6,600 total students so far this year, double the number expected.

In its Sunday report, the Florida Department of Health reported seven people died due to a primary diagnosis of COVID-19. There were 5,520 new cases, with a positivity rate of 7.65%.

The state’s unemployment rate now stands at 4.9% as some industries continue to report that people are slow to return to work.

Each year, the town of Verona, Italy — home of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet — receives thousands of letters of unrequited love addressed to the play's star-crossed heroine. And each letter — more than 6,000 a year — is answered by hand by a team of secretaries at the Juliet Club.

The curfew will be from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. for one week.

Court papers say clinicians issued a discharge order Oct. 6 after deciding she no longer needed acute care. The hospital says it tried to work with her family and offered to help with transportation and identification.

With Tampa Bay area temperatures expected to drop into the low 30s tonight with wind chills even lower, cold weather shelters will open all over the Bay...

Donald Trump is surging in the polls, despite the waves of condemnation from his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.The latest poll from the…

The positivity rate for the week more than doubled from 2.6% last week to 5.4% this week.

This page will be updated as necessary as Hurricane Ian impacts Florida. Evacuations are ordered by county, so make sure to check with your county's website for further details.

Freshman Republican Rep. Peter Meijer voted to impeach Trump following the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.

Inflation cooled only slightly last month as the cost of housing, food and gas rose. Consumer prices in January were 6.4%, compared to a 6.5% inflation rate the month before.