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Rep. Tina Polsky, D-Boca Raton, debates during a session Tuesday March 10, 2020, in Tallahassee, Florida's top health official was asked to leave a meeting after refusing to wear a mask at the office of the state senator who told him she had a serious medical condition.

Florida Sen. Tina Polsky is receiving death threats, says people are ‘up in arms’ over masks

After asking state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo to wear a mask, the senator has been receiving death threats.

A car is damaged after Hurricane Ian passed through the area, in Sanibel Island, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. Residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast barrier islands are returning to assess the damage from Hurricane Ian, despite limited access to some areas. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)

Beginning Sunday, people who have working vehicles on Sanibel Island may operate that vehicle on the island

There will be conditions attached to driving on Sanibel Island at this time, including obeying traffic laws.

Increasingly, many people in the U.S., like these teens in a Miami grocery story in August, now routinely wear face masks in public to help stop COVID-19's spread. But social distancing and other public health measures have been slower to catch on, especially among young adults, a national survey finds.

Mask-Wearing Is Up In The U.S., But Young People Are Still Too Lax, CDC Survey Finds

A general increase in mask-wearing has been encouraging, U.S. public health experts say. But too few young people, especially, are social distancing and taking other steps to slow coronavirus' spread.

Mourners mark 20 years since Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people

Triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the catastrophic event was the deadliest tsunami in recorded history.

Biden says he'll commute sentences for 37 people on death row. NPR talked with one

President Biden announced he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row. That means the men won't face execution under the incoming Trump administration.

A man cries as a body of his family member was found from a collapsed house caused by powerful earthquake in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024.

Fears grow about saving people still trapped from Japan quake that has killed dozens

A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan left at least 62 people dead Wednesday, as rescue workers fought to save those feared trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.

UK police say more than 500 people arrested in pro-Palestinian events over weekend

Most of those detained were arrested for carrying signs supporting a pro-Palestinian group recently banned as a terrorist organization in the UK.

Car explosion near Red Fort in India's capital kills at least 8 people, police say

A car exploded near the 17th century Red Fort in New Delhi on Monday, killing at least eight people, injuring others and triggering a fire that damaged vehicles parked nearby, New Delhi police said.

A health care worker fills syringes with doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Aug. 24 at the Southfield Pavilion in Southfield, Mich.

Lots Of People Say They'll Quit Over Vaccine Mandates, But Research Shows Few Do

The answers workers give in national surveys differ from how people are actually behaving after mandates go into effect in their workplace.

More than 80% of people in Gaza have been displaced from their homes, Mercy Corps says

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Arnaud Quemin, Middle East director of Mercy Corps, about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.

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