The traffickers who transport cocaine to the U.S. from Colombia in high-speed boats can make up to $100,000 a day.

AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Florida's 2025 weather was relatively subdued, with no hurricane landfalls and roughly half the usual number of severe weather reports.

FEMA has confirmed that Fort Myers Beach has earned a Class 5 rating in the National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System, a step in the recovery from Hurricane Ian that could earn ...

The last five years have been warmer than average, except 2022, where temperatures were the coldest since the 1980s across some official locations. How about the weather for this year?

At the Plum Island Museum of Lost Toys and Curiosities, one-time treasures bring back memories and are a reminder of the eternal life of plastic waste.

The United States and Ukraine have reached a consensus on several critical issues, but sensitive issues around territorial control in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland remain unresolved.

The Atlantic hurricane season produced a normal number of storms, compared to more frequent storms in recent years. But the storms that did form were huge.

"You better watch out, you better go hide, you better go shout I'm telling you why, DHS is ending their lives." To the tune of "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town," seventeen protesters sang modified ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival, dating back to pre-Christian Germanic people.

Religious leaders started getting together after Oct. 7, 2023, in the hope of preventing a repeat of Arab-Jewish violence that erupted after a previous conflict in Gaza two years earlier.