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Controversy has erupted this week over a public radio music announcer's involvement with protests in Washington related to the Occupy Wall Street…

One of the polling industry's oldest brand names is calling in an outsider to do a comprehensive review after its election polls last year consistently favored Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

Investors have cooled on the once high-flying tech leader, and its share price has plummeted in recent months.

Bees scare me. I feel foolish that something so small and generally uninterested in my presence would cause me to act in ways that call my sanity into…

The government is about to change the way it accounts for the economic value of music and movies.

http://66.225.205.104/JR20120228a.mp3A study commissioned by the Charlotte Sports Commission says the region would be out $2.1 billion dollars and 23,000…

For the past five decades, Harris Teeter has been a locally-based company with a relatively small chain of regional supermarkets. Not anymore. The company…

The death toll in the collapse hovers around 300, but rescue workers hope some of the hundreds more buried in the rubble can be taken out alive.

Problems at a Canadian factory have caused a shortage of tuberculosis tests in the U.S. Some hospitals and health departments around the country are deferring routing TB testing as a result.

Dennis Rodman, America's unlikeliest link to Kim Jong Un, wants his friend to release Kenneth Bae. A 44-year-old U.S. citizen, Bae was this month sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean labor camp for unspecified "hostile acts."

A concept of perfectly fitting footwear inspired by cheese fondue, these slippers would be made by you, for you.

It's called Speakeasy Briefs and it's kind of practical if you need to sneak something into a music festival ... or if you get mugged.

The amount of corporate money pumped into politics has surged in the four years since the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Citizens United case.A new…

A bidding war is underway to buy Matthews-based retail discounter Family Dollar. A few weeks ago, Dollar Tree agreed to an $8.5 billion deal with Family…

Ophira Eisenberg talks to this week's VIP, Anna Chlumsky, who plays Chief of Staff Amy Brookheimer on HBO's Veep.

You read that right. And yes, punk rock is dead.

Lego has made billions of dollars from a mostly male consumer base. But now, the Danish company is renewing its push to appeal to girls with a new kit that includes three female scientists.

On this week's show, we jump in with Christopher Nolan's new space super-adventure, take on space in general, and talk about what's making us happy this week.

The songs of zebra finches, long used as a model for how humans learn to use speech, get a little sloppy after a few drinks, a new study finds. Future research will look at how it affects learning.

An alumni survey by the school found much more optimism about the future of America's companies than that of its workers. More than 4 in 10 think employee pay and benefits are set to shrink.