@LaToyaGray1 -- My guess is that one of the authors of the story has inserted some extra spaces to try to manually align text. This is not recommended because stories are responsive, which means content in the story is positioned on the screen differently depending on the browser window size and aspect ratio or the person viewing the story. Adding spaces to try to align text may work on your screen, but when other people view the story in other browser windows with varying sizes/shapes it's very unlikely that the text will be positioned in the same way.
If you need to center text, I would recommend using the alignment options in the text formatting toolbar. You may need to delete the spaces that were manually added for this to work as expected.
Owen Evans
Lead Product Engineer | StoryMaps