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The Charlotte Hornets won an overtime thriller at home Tuesday night, edging the Miami Heat 127-126 in the NBA’s play-in tournament.

The University of North Carolina has fired head men’s basketball coach Hubert Davis after a 24-9 season that ended with a first‑round NCAA Tournament loss.

Dr. David Zaas is moving into a new position after being appointed Atrium's CEO on Jan. 1.

Charlotte City Council has approved a 10% pay raise for firefighters, bringing their wages in line with police officers.

For the first time, the Golden Globes will give an award for the best podcast, and Morning Edition's companion podcast, "Up First," is among the inaugural nominees.

The changes come during an extreme heat wave that’s expected to impact over 200 million people across the East and Midwest this holiday weekend.

The Charlotte Hornets open their-four-game NBA Summer League schedule in Las Vegas. It’s an opportunity to get new players into the team’s system and see how they mesh with some of the team’s veterans.

Simply talking could produce tiny particles of mucus and saliva that might carry the coronavirus, experts say. How much these airborne particles matter for the spread of this disease is controversial.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that a former president has absolute immunity for his core constitutional powers — and is entitled to a presumption of immunity for his official acts.

Pam Bondi got full support from Republicans but faced repeated questions from Democrats about whether she would protect the Justice Department from political influence.

Planned U.S. visa restrictions are causing students around the world to consider going to the United Kingdom instead.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Hugo Gurdon of the Washington Examiner and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker about the week in politics, focusing on this week's impeachment hearings.

David Brooks of The New York Times and Amy Sullivan of Yahoo News discuss the 2016 presidential race, Francois Hollande's visit to the White House and Republican threats to shut down the government over a potential climate deal.

Grocery stores provide healthy foods, create jobs and offer a place for community connection. "We started calling them front-line and essential workers for a reason," says one food access advocate.

Once war began in Ukraine, COVID ceased being the top-level medical concern. NPR's Scott Detrow spent 24 hours with a doctor doing everything he can to help with a whole new overwhelming crisis.

A Charlotte Journalism Collaborative examination of nearly 700 eviction cases from October 2020 to March 2021 found evictions during the pandemic most often occurred in ZIP codes with higher rates of poverty, higher Black populations and less housing investment than the county, overall.

Kim Hyun-woo used to work for North Korea's top intelligence agency. He defected to South Korea in 2014 and is now on his first-ever visit to the United States.

A dangerous chemical called xylazine is being mixed into fentanyl across the U.S., but who's doing it and why is a mystery. The government still doesn't identify and track new drug threats.

The U.S. and Iraq are negotiating an arrangement that would permit U.S. forces to continue to operate in Iraq for many years — possibly decades. Critics says the Bush and Maliki governments are colluding on a deal that would require no legislative approval.

Recent polling shows that former Trump Administration official Laurie Buckhout and longtime Carteret County Sheriff Asa Buck are leading in the redrawn district. But many voters have yet to make up their minds.