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Good morning, I'm Leila Fadel. Gatorland amusement park in Florida has announced the birth of an all-white female alligator. The white reptile is known as a leucistic alligator because of an ...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: Crews are continuing to work at the site of the collapse in Surfside. That's the town in Florida just north of Miami Beach where half of a condiminium block collapsed before ...
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Florida Aquarium's lead coral scientist Keri O'Neil about getting stone coral to repeatedly reproduce in a lab setting. This could help save global coral populations.
LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: Don Merritt and his wife, Tommy, are longtime Florida residents, and they've never evacuated in the face of a hurricane. But this time, it sounded serious.
leila fadel, host: An engineering report about the building in Surfside, Fla., shows serious concerns about it nearly three years before it collapsed early Thursday morning.
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Kimberly Wehle, law professor and author of How To Read The Constitution And Why, about the reported FBI raid on former President Donald Trump's Florida home.
LEILA FADEL, HOST: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and two co-defendants are in court in Florida today, asking a federal judge to dismiss the charges against their clients.
Laws passed in Florida and Texas will restrict the care available to transgender persons. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Joseph Knoll, a nurse-practitioner, about how the restrictions affect his patients.
LEILA FADEL, HOST: In Florida, a new abortion ban bill is a step closer to becoming law. The State House passed a bill banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
LEILA FADEL, HOST: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned communities in that part of Florida's West Coast to be prepared for a historic storm surge. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and two co-defendants are in court in Florida today, asking a federal judge to dismiss the charges against their clients.
LEILA FADEL, HOST: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and two co-defendants are in court in Florida today, asking a federal judge to dismiss the charges against their clients.