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This week's edition of New Music Friday includes a features-heavy flex from Ed Sheeran, new efforts from Big K.R.I.T and Blood Orange, the return of Imperial Teen, K.Flay and more.

New details from a Census survey shows just how much more diverse the American electorate is becoming, with political implications still to come.

A half century ago, a beekeeper from New Zealand and a Sherpa from Nepal reached the top of Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. To mark next month's anniversary of the epic ascent, Peter Hillary and Jamling Norgay return to Everest to retrace their fathers' legendary footsteps.

Tuesday night's drawing was the 30th straight without a winner. The lottery drought is due to poor luck and terrible odds: the chance of winning the Mega Millions jackpot is 1 in 302.6 million.

Powerhouse names lingered around the top of Billboard's albums chart all summer: Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen — crowding out new entries. But this week brings an embarrassment of riches.

A surprising amount of negative reaction to North Carolina’s HB 2 is coming from the world of sports. The NBA withdrew its All-Star game from Charlotte…

Also: Google Street View explores Cambodia's ancient temples; protesters in eastern Ukraine demand to secede; and Toyota recalls more than six million vehicles.

Also: Turkey sends troops into northern Syria; North Korea test fires a new ballistic missile; and deadly monsoons drench central India.

KEN TUCKER reviews ZZ Top''s new record "Antenna" (RCA).

In the first of this four-part discussion series looking at the impact of systemic racism on the health care system, host Mary C. Curtis talks to Netia McCray about her battle with COVID-19 and fighting to get a correct diagnosis and proper treatment. Date and Time: Nov. 11 at 1 p.m. ET

The British band hasn't had a chart-topping album in a decade, but it pulled out all the stops to promote its latest, Moon Music, including selling more than a dozen different versions of the album.

Also: The White House ends its ban on picture-taking on public tours; President Obama talks about the ACA in Tennessee today; and militants kill many Egyptian soldiers in a complex attack in Sinai.

College conferences are expanding and some schools are changing their memberships, which could affect small schools like Wake Forest. WFAE's "All Things Considered" host Gwendolyn Glenn talks to reporter Will Zimmerman about the effect of the realignments on ACC schools.

Candy Funhouse's chief candy officer will taste test over 3,500 products a month. Applicants can be as young as 5 years old.

The Miami-Dade based Florida Task Force-1 is just one of several specialized groups on the ground in Surfside. They deploy to disasters across the globe, but now, they're needed at home.

President Bush named top White House economic adviser Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board on Monday to succeed the near-legendary Alan Greenspan.

N.C. Senate District 39 is the southwestern corner of Mecklenburg County. Incumbent Democrat DeAndrea Salvador is uncontested and looking to be elected for her third term. District 39 is 41% Democrat, 20% Republican and 38% unaffiliated.

The No. 2 acting official at the DOJ, Emil Bove, has been shaking up the agency and its past work on the 2021 Capitol riot. But he also has his own history with Jan. 6 cases.

Early voting starts Thursday in Charlotte’s municipal elections. The only competitive race on the city council is in District 6, formerly represented by Tariq Bokhari, who stepped down. Now his wife, Krista, is running as a Republican against Democrat Kimberly Owens, who has been in Charlotte for more than 30 years, but this is her first time running for office. We sit down for a conversation about why she wants this job and more.