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Florida is at the center of the fight over abortion. As the state faces new restrictions and a November ballot question on abortion rights, Democrats see potential where they haven't in years.

The U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip said its employees were among 18 people killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school. Israel said the school was being used by Hamas.

Ski buff Sarah Witter will get $6,358 back from her hospital and insurer after a review of her bill following the NPR-Kaiser Health News story about her case.

If the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico were in the pharmacology business, then creosote would be their perennial best seller.

In the seventeenth century, Spanish explorers complained that because of this plant they couldn’t travel at night. The nineteenth century Texas rangers, who wrote that in Texas everything stings, scratches or bites, certainly had this little plant in mind.

This episode of Nature Notes was previously aired on January 3, 2013. How many kinds of birds eat fish, and what different methods they use to catch their…

In every town in the region, house sparrows are common. They’re rarely seen far from a town, and as an exotic invading species they spread remarkably fast across the United States.

The agave is one of the most recognizable of West Texas plants, with its thick, blue-green leaves and towering blooms. For Natives peoples, the agave, or…

Many Democrats defended the Biden administration's cautious approach. But lawmakers of both parties urged the president to address the nation.

Growing up in Baltimore, the writer faced threats from both the streets and the police. His book, Between the World and Me, is an open letter to his teenage son.