Mufid Majnun
/
Unsplash
Racial and ethnic disparities are starting to show again in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across North Carolina.
Alex Wong
/
Getty Images
CHARLOTTE TALKS WITH MIKE COLLINS
-
Mika Baumeister/UnsplashRising COVID-19 cases are starting to clog area hospitals and the state primary may now take place in June as the courts wrestle with voter maps. Charlotte City Council has made some zoning decisions and hears arguments for more changes. -
In the aftermath of the Capitol insurrection, former President Trump was suspended from many social media platforms. As a result, in the week after the ban, one study found misinformation across Facebook, Twitter and others dropped 73%. We speak with media and law experts to understand the convergence of deplatforming, social media and free speech in the digital age.
LATEST NEWS
-
Mecklenburg County's health department is competing with governments and private companies across the U.S. to buy a limited supply of at-home COVID-19 tests as demand for testing surges. -
Public opinion remains bitterly divided on the issue, but an imminent Supreme Court decision could overturn or dramatically undercut Roe v. Wade.
-
Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday, was best known for Bat Out Of Hell, one of the best selling albums of all time.
-
State environmental regulators have approved an air quality permit for a wood pellet plant in Sampson County. The permit was granted despite concerns by environmental and social justice groups.
-
Nouveau Sud's "La Bestia" is a new circus performance detailing the journey migrants take from Central America to the U.S. It premieres at Booth Playhouse in the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center on Jan. 20.
-
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is weighing whether Donald Trump and others committed crimes by trying to pressure Georgia officials to overturn Joe Biden's election win.
-
Dale Earnhardt Jr., the son of seven-time Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt joins his late father in the Hall of Fame after winning 26 races at NASCAR’s highest level. The event returns to Charlotte after skipping 2021 during the pandemic.
-
For infants, toddlers, and children, one sign of an especially close relationship is if two people do something that involves exchanging saliva, like taking bites from the same piece of food.
-
The committee is asking Ivanka Trump to voluntarily cooperate with the panel's investigation. The panel sent her a letter on Thursday.
-
The attack targeted a contractor in Switzerland that was storing the data. The Red Cross has been forced to halt a program that reunites families torn apart by violence, migration or other tragedies.
-
Authorities say two U.S. Marines were killed and 17 others injured when the 7-ton truck they were riding in overturned near their North Carolina base. The State Highway Patrol said the truck was making a right turn onto a highway Wednesday afternoon when it lost control and overturned.
-
A probe into the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at Clemson University in South Carolina revealed hazing incidents that occurred last February. School officials say the incidents involved acts of personal servitude by new members and included “line-ups, berating, morally degrading behavior." It's been suspended for four years.
LATEST PODCAST EPISODES
-
Photo by Michael Becker/This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Jason Mott, the North Carolina writer whose novel “Hell of a Book” recently won the National Book Award for fiction. It’s a funny, surreal and tragic story about trying to process the far-too-common violent deaths of young Black people in America.
-
Photo courtesy of the band./Modern Moxie is a kaleidoscope of musical genres and generational styles, taking dance-happy cues from The Cars and David Bowie and bringing them to a contemporary pop-rock stage. On the heels of their 2019 debut full-length “Claw Your Way Out” and their recognition as “Charlotte’s Best Band” by Queen City Nerve, Modern Moxie bandmates Madison Lucas and Harry Kollm share how the Charlotte band’s success can be traced all the way back to a small dorm room closet in South Carolina.
CORONAVIRUS
-
Cooper Neill for NPRThe people who take care of and educate children under 5 years old, who are too young to be vaccinated, are in a special kind of hell right now.
-
UnsplashIf Charlotte and Mecklenburg County residents test positive for COVID-19, they will probably not receive a call from a contact tracer. Instead, they will get a text message with instructions for how to do their own contact tracing.
-
Mufid Majnun/UnsplashSouth Carolina health officials are apologizing for long delays getting people their COVID-19 test results. They're pledging to hold vendors accountable for the holdups.
-
Mike Stewart/APIvermectin has been hailed as a wonder drug for treating parasitic infections, but leading medical experts say the same isn't true for treating COVID-19.
Learn how WFAE is working to ensure its audience, staff, on-air voices, news sources, vendors and work culture reflect the diversity of our community.
_
Americans spend more on medical care than those in other wealthy countries, but we’re a lot sicker. "The Price We Pay" explores the reasons for that and possible solutions to our health care crisis.
INSIDE WFAE
- WFAE climate reporter David Boraks selected for bioenergy fellowship
- WFAE’s New Series, 'The Price We Pay,' Looks At Why Spending More Doesn’t Make Us Healthier
- Better News Podcast Shows How WFAE, La Noticia Partner To Serve Charlotte’s Latino Community
- WFAE Launches Climate Beat
- A Letter From WFAE CEO Joe O'Connor About Our DEI Initiatives
Get behind-the-scenes insight and analysis about what’s happening in local and statewide politics from political reporter Steve Harrison.
View and submit corrections to WFAE.