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Hurricane Milton brought devastating storm surges and high winds to a huge swath of Florida's western Gulf Coast. The storm is moving across the peninsula and into the Atlantic Ocean.

NPR goes on a coast-to-coast hunt for treasure hiding in plain sight. Learn about sea glass and how to find it.

New research shows exercise need not be done all at once to protect against heart disease. NPR's Richard Knox reports that two15-minute sessions are as good as one 30-minute session.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has intervened in two cases that could have big implications for people who come to the U.S. and seek asylum.

Dianna Douglas has produced NPR's signature news pieces from across the nation and around the world. In the spring of 2010 she spent five weeks embedded with the US Army in Kandahar. Her work with the Special Forces in Meiwan Province, the Military Police in Kandahar City, and the recently-arrived 101st Airborne Division in Zhari document the small victories and overwhelming challenges of the American mission in Afghanistan.

Jason Beaubien is NPR's Global Health and Development Correspondent on the Science Desk.

A $7 million project on Butano Creek, just outside the town of Pescadero, aims to reconnect coho salmon with spawning grounds and remove a deadly threat for steelhead.

The booming economy, fueled by the tech sector, and decades of under-building have led to a historic shortage of affordable housing.

When it’s time to mate, these pests of grapevines shake their abdomens to make strange calls that sound like a clucking chicken, a howling monkey or a revving engine. Now scientists have found a way to use the insects’ songs against them.

Crews in Spain searched for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings as people tried to salvage what they could from homes following monstrous flash floods.