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Even as researchers unearth more information about what may lie under the ground of the Dozier School for Boys, the allegations of brutality that marked…

The state of Florida came a step closer Tuesday to formally apologizing for the abuse of hundreds of children over the course of a century at the…

This story was updated on April 6 at 12:20 p.m.St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman today filled in city council members on the "Baseball Forever" plan to…

House budget subcommittees are unveiling their ideas for spending cuts. House leaders ordered each panel develop a list of potential reductions in light...

On their first date, Tom Gasko and his husband, Donnie Pedrola, talked for hours about vacuum designs. "Most people aren't that passionate about something," Pedrola tells Gasko at StoryCorps.

Testimony began Tuesday in the historic trial of Spain's Princess Cristina. She's the first Spanish royal ever to sit in the defendant's dock and faces eight years in prison if convicted of tax fraud.

The company said in late March that clinical trials showed the vaccine elicits "100% efficacy and robust antibody responses" in adolescents.

Colorado has become the first state to do away with legacy admissions in public colleges. The governor also ended a requirement that public colleges consider SAT or ACT scores for freshmen.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers children's book author Eric Carle, who died this week at the age of 91. His experiences as a teenager in Germany during World War II influenced his art.

Business owners in downtown Tampa say the pandemic made them struggle, but thanks to the city's winning sports teams and increased capacity at arenas and stadiums, things are starting to boom again.

This month brings a great selection of books, from a reimagining of King Arthur to a study of loneliness that might be just what you need as you start to recover from pandemic-induced isolation.

The company will no longer host a website that promoted itself as a way to "help enforce the Texas Heartbeat Act." Online activists and boycotters inundated the site with false reports.

"If the Democrats can do it, the Republicans can do it," Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told NPR's Nina Totenberg.

Spears and her father petitioned to end his conservatorship role. A Los Angeles judge has granted that request.

Nicki Nicole's Tiny Desk home concert is representative of her artistry writ large, as an artist born in 2000 but with a connection to sounds and styles beyond her years.

He received a phone call this morning, just after 5:30, and was in disbelief. He said that he likes to keep his political views and statements separate from the literature he writes.

Costco pays $17 an hour after a second raise this year. Starbucks is raising hourly pay to $15 amid a union effort. Major chains are pushing to draw workers, who have shunned a million retail jobs.

The university's president called for people on-campus to wear masks and to be fully vaccinated, while USF faculty recommended holding the first few weeks of the spring semester online.

How did David Sedaris and his Santaland Diaries become a Morning Edition holiday staple? It all started in 1992, when Ira Glass — then a radio producer — heard him at a reading.

In the most dramatic step a Big Tech company has taken against Russia, Apple says Russians will no longer be able to purchase Apple merchandise and access to Apple Pay is also restricted.

The amended version of the bill reduces — but does not eliminate — the care that residents must get from certified nursing assistants. Those nursing hours would drop from 2 1/2 to 2 hours a day.

The rejected books make up a record 41% of the 132 books submitted for review, the Florida Department of Education said in a statement.

A New Jersey jury has ruled in favor of drugmaker Merck in a major case testing whether the company properly warned consumers about the risks of using its painkiller drug Vioxx. The case was brought by an Idaho man who claimed his intermittent use of Vioxx caused his heart attack four years ago.

"We believe additional information regarding the ongoing evaluation of a third dose should be considered as part of our decision-making for potential authorization," FDA officials said in a statement.

The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Louisiana made headlines last month by smoking marijuana in a campaign ad. Now he's back with another lighter and a message about gerrymandering.