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Coverage of President Obama's speech about proposed changes for the National Security Agency continues with more of his comments, plus analysis.

The banks say they will stop offering "deposit advances," a kind of payday loan that had come under fire by federal regulators last year.

You may be aware of St. Augustine's role in the civil rights movement in the 1960's, but how about it's role in the 1560's?A new exhibit that opens Monday…

Richard Powers' new novel tells the story of an avant-garde classical composer who finds himself dabbling in DNA. He "gets obsessed with finding music inside of living things," Powers explains, and, as a fugitive, ends up leading officials on a low-speed chase.

The “World’s Crowdfunding Festival” will return to downtown Jacksonville this April with more participants and more projects.The five-day 2014 One Spark…

The Brazilians said U.S. cotton subsidies violated global trade rules. So the U.S. government kept the subsidies, and started paying Brazilian cotton farmers, too.

The state's controversial law required women who want to have an abortion to first have an ultrasound scan and have it described to them. A federal judge calls the law "an impermissible attempt to compel these providers to deliver the state's message in favor of childbirth and against abortion."

The U.S. Senate this week failed to end debate on a measure that would reinstate the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program. Some 1.3 million unemployed Americans lost these benefits at the end of 2013, after Congress failed to extend the program. Now, lawmakers can't agree on how to pay for the program in 2014, which means more waiting for the long-term unemployed struggling to get by.

The NFL conference championships are looming, and in the NFC, two teams from the NFC West are facing off — even though it used to be the worst division in the league. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to reporter Mike Pesca about this week's sports news.

According to the International Maritime Bureau, piracy on the high seas is at its lowest level for six years. NPR's Rachel Martin looks into the reasons why.