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Brazil's preparing for the most divisive presidential election since its dictatorship ended in the 1980s. Huge numbers of women are mobilized to oppose far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who has a record for misogyny, racism and homophobia.

The Florida Roundup, a statewide, weekly news program produced by WJCT in Jacksonville and WLRN in Miami, now airs Fridays at noon on WMFE. Hosts Tom Hudson and Melissa Ross talked with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum about health insurance and paying teachers $50,000 a year. The Roundup also heard from Ron DeSantis at a Tampa event he attended this week as he goes after Gillum on taxes. Joining the show for analysis: WUSF reporter Steve Newborn, Democratic strategist Fernand Amandi and GOP strategist Mac Stipanovich.

Astronauts will soon launch into space from U.S. soil once again but they’ll have to wait just a few more months. NASA announced a delay of the Commercial Crew Program.

A new program in Apopka promotes literacy, and education about social and economic challenges. The Hope Community Center’s ‘Books and Brunch’ runs every fourth Saturday at Taylor Apartments.

The Senate is poised to move President Trump's Supreme Court nominee one step closer to confirmation Friday. Steve Inskeep talks to White House spokesperson Kerri Kupec, who defends the nominee.

The tax remains 18.4 cents a gallon. Yet, the cost of building and maintaining roads, bridges and transit keeps going up — leaving the highway trust fund running on empty.

A Senate procedural vote will likely determine the fate of Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh. Brazilians go to the polls Sunday to elect the next president. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is announced.

Sunday's election in Brazil represents an important gauge of how far to the right voters in Latin America's largest nation are prepared to turn.

Is geography destiny? It goes against the core idea of the American dream, but a new online data tool says where you were born and raised actually makes a huge difference — down to the very block.

The legal community reacts to the Senate's planned confirmation vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, including more than 1,700 law professors who say he displayed a lack of judicial restraint at a hearing last week that should disqualify him.