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The pills for adults and school-aged kids aren't the right dose for preschoolers. Plus they taste bad. Now there's a new pill for little ones — but it seems like an uphill battle to get it to them.

Akau Jambo just staged the first international comedy festival in a country that the U.N. calls a place of suffering. Talking about the role of laughter, he says, "Life doesn't stop – we keep living."

The new FAFSA was supposed to make filling out the federal aid form easier, but issues with the rollout had the opposite effect. Fewer students have filled out the FAFSA, so efforts are underway to close that gap.

Hall of famer Fred Favre testified Tuesday in Congress in a case involving welfare dollars allegedly being used to build a volleyball arena in Mississippi.

They were sentenced for up to 10 years for violating anti-abortion laws. Some say their pregnancy was a result of rape. Rwanda has now liberalized its abortion laws and pardoned hundreds of the women.

In 2020, New Jersey became the first state in the country to require climate change education across grade levels and in most subjects. The standards were rolled out this past year.

Ground Zero responders who developed health problems after working in the ruins of the World Trade Center and sued the city are being offered a settlement totaling $657.5 million. Glen Klein, a former police officer with the New York Police Department's emergency services unit, who was among the plaintiffs, offers his insight.

Frustrated with sky-high bills from air ambulance companies, Wyoming hopes to hammer down those charges with more regulation. The companies say such a proposal undermines free enterprise.

Today we're skipping the news. Instead, Sky tells you about some events today in the Tampa Bay region to honor fallen U.S. military members. Let's get started.

On this week's local music roundup, we'll hear house music from a popular Norwegian DJ brother duo, plus some really different and FREE jazz shows in the Tampa Bay area. But before that, the news.

The Israeli military said Iran launched retaliatory strikes throughout the night. This followed a major Israeli attack on Friday, targeting Iran's nuclear facilities and killing top military leaders.

There is panic among many of the 170 million Americans on TikTok. That's because, any time now, the Supreme Court is set to decide whether the app will stay, or be banned in six days.

They were secretaries, cab drivers, teachers and artists — brought together on a mission for lesbian visibility and political change.

The preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board says the pilot was destined for Clearwater Air Park but couldn't see the airport during the nighttime flight. He crashed into a home about four miles away.

On The Past Is Still Alive, Alynda Segarra's latest album as Hurray for the Riff Raff, the shapeshifting folk artist dives into deeply personal stories from their own vagabond youth.

Unlike the United States, Germany never had a housing bubble. Its mortgage market is too tightly regulated. But some German banks did lose a lot of money in the financial crisis. The network of institutions called landesbanks have became a cautionary tale about risky investing.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with the group's co-founder Ayo Tometi about the movement's history and future.

A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday hears arguments over a radical plan to stem the foreclosure crisis. The City of Richmond is proposing to buy underwater mortgages in order to help keep local residents in their homes. If banks don't want to sell those mortgages, the city says it is prepared to invoke eminent domain to seize the mortgages.

Update at 8:00 p.m. December 5:Power was finally restored to all areas of the USF Tampa campus shortly after 7 p.m.Update at 6:20 p.m. December 5:Tampa…

Actor Chris O'Dowd could watch the classic romance Dirty Dancing a million times. "I didn't know what romance was until I saw Dirty Dancing," he says," and nothing has come close since."

HBO's documentary on Tina Turner is presented as the 81-year-old singer's final word on her expansive life and career — a history she finds difficult to talk about.

An ethics inquiry is examining whether Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, a Presbyterian minister, broke Arizona House rules when she hid Bibles from the members' lounge in a protest.

Newly re-elected Texas Gov. Rick Perry argues against big government in his new book: Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington. States should be freer to act without federal interference, Perry says.

Saleemul Huq influenced U.N. climate talks immensely over the years, by spotlighting what wealthy countries owe to less-developed nations. He died at 71, shortly before this year's COP28 talks began.

In the first of a series of stories about China, NPR's John Ruwitch examines shifts in public perceptions about the country's economic future.