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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Colin Polsky, a professor of geosciences at Florida Atlantic University, about how Hurricane Milton is raising critical questions about the future of the sunshine state.

This week, Taylor Swift debuted her engagement ring and the parasite world brought us something gross to worry about.

United Nations aid officials and Israeli human rights groups say Israel's latest offensive in north Gaza forces residents to choose between leaving or starving. Israel allowed in food after Vice President Harris showed concern.

Israel has allowed almost no food aid into north Gaza for two weeks. Humanitarian groups say it leaves 400,000 people with the choice of eventual starvation or fleeing their homes to the south.

After Hurricane Andrew decimated parts of south Florida in 1992, state officials mandated sweeping building code revisions for new construction. Those changes continue to limit damage from storms now.

China has banned transnational adoption, ending more-than three decades during which more than 160,000 children were adopted abroad. Adoptees say they have conflicted feelings about the ban.

When Kansas became the 26th state to ban gender-affirming medical care for teens, the Catholic Church and Southern Baptist Convention cheered the move. But not all faith leaders agree.

As a trade war grew this week, Ontario's leader threatened a surcharge on Canadian electricity sold in some U.S. states. The episode highlighted the U.S. reliance on imported Canadian power.

The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, Institute of Education Sciences and Office of Federal Student Aid were especially impacted by the cuts announced on Tuesday.

The National Institutes of Health is terminating dozens of studies examining why people are hesitant about vaccines and how to increase uptake. mRNA vaccine research may be on the chopping block, too.