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Extreme speeding is on the rise in North Carolina but, evidently, fines for that speeding are not. The Charlotte Observer's recent investigation "Death in the Fast Lane" looked at how 92% of drivers caught speeding got breaks in court.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former National Security Advisor, General H.R. McMaster, about how climate policy can be used to counter Russian President Vladimir Putin's agenda.

As new COVID-19 cases decline here, a new, more contagious strain emerges. The line of candidates running to replace outgoing U.S. Sen. Richard Burr is getting longer. Belk files for bankruptcy and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools says sports can resume after being shut down due to the pandemic.

On the local news roundup: Tropical Storm Debby wreaks havoc in North Carolina. County Manager Dena Diorio announces her retirement. Truist Bank, headquartered in Charlotte, will sponsor the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. Mike Collins and guests discuss these stories and more.

Ofeibea Quist-Arcton is an award-winning broadcaster from Ghana and is NPR's Africa Correspondent. She describes herself as a "jobbing journalist"—who's often on the hoof, reporting from somewhere.

Brakkton Booker is a National Desk reporter based in Washington, DC.

Through WFAE's partnership with Novant Health Foundation, "Advancing Maternal Health Equity" will explore all aspects of birth equity and talk about what needs to be done to improve infant and maternal health.

Miners across Appalachia are dying of black lung. Now they're coming to terms with decades of dedication to a job that would drastically change their lives and that of their families.

The Davidson College Union Board is virtually hosting Patrisse Cullors in conversation with Dr. Laurian Bowles, professor of Anthropology at Davidson College on November 10th at 7:30pm. Artist, activist, educator, public speaker, and Los Angeles-native Patrisse Cullors is the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of the Los Angeles-based grassroots organization Dignity and Power Now. For the last 20 years, Patrisse has been on the frontlines of criminal justice reform and led Reform LA Jails’ “Yes on R” campaign, a ballot initiative that passed by a 71% landslide victory in March 2020. Patrisse co-founded the global Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 after sparking the viral Twitter hashtag. The movement has since expanded into an international organization with dozens of chapters around the world campaigning against anti-black racism. Her work for the organization received recognition and was honored in TIME Magazine’s 2020 100 Women of the Year project. In January 2016, Patrisse Cullors published her memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, which became an instant New York Times Bestseller.​

The interim Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools superintendent says he's ready to remove gridlock in the district. U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn is in trouble again after being caught with a loaded gun at Charlotte's airport and is facing a possible ethics investigation. Meanwhile, Panthers owner David Tepper avoids speaking about what happened with the team's project in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Gov. Roy Cooper loosened COVID-19 restrictions. Teachers are now eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The CMS superintendent gets a raise and a contract extension. Belk files for bankruptcy. And the ASC apologizes for past behavior. Those stories and much more.

House Republicans make up the majority in the House of Representatives for the 118th Congress. Here's a rundown of the lawmakers likely gaining power in key panels at the beginning of the new year.

Americans are being forced to cut corners as they deal with lingering inflation — just not when it comes to providing for their furry companions.

In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as government troops and militia allies battle Rwanda-backed M23 rebels for control of mineral-rich land, civilians pay the price in a brutal war.

In 1977, Diane Keaton's role in Annie Hall turned her into the star she had dreamed of becoming since she was a little girl, when no one believed she would make it more than her own mother. Keaton looks back on her life — and her mom — in her new memoir, Then Again.

Experts disagree on whether Katrina's floodwaters are the source of the high levels of contaminants in New Orleans' soil, or if the contaminates were there before the storm. What's not in dispute is that the lead, arsenic and other hazardous chemicals found in older neighborhoods needs to be cleaned up.

The arrival of a new decade heralded new styles of music, and new challenges, for the jazz artists who met up at 821 Sixth Ave. in New York. And for the struggling photographer who documented it all, it was also the end of an era.

Veteran rock critic Carola Dibbell ventures into fiction with The Only Ones, a tale of an unconventional family in post-pandemic America. Critic Jason Heller says calls it "heartbreakingly beautiful."

President Trump wants to do away with the filibuster in order to pass the Save America Act. But many Senate Republicans are reluctant, wary of what it would mean if they were to lose their majority.

The Boston band Kingsley Flood has spent the last few years polishing, refining and expanding its folk-rock sound, in the process incorporating horns, more strings and ever-brighter production.