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Mecklenburg County is preparing to cut ties with Cardinal Innovations Healthcare. Leaders in Union and Cabarrus counties ended their relationships with the company last month.

Tressie McMillan Cottom, a UNC Chapel Hill senior research professor, was last month named a 2020 MacArthur Foundation fellow, known as the Genius Award. Foundation officials describe Cottom as someone who "combines analytical insights and personal experiences in a frank, accessible way in exploring a range of issues on race, gender and education."

An official at the New York City Police Department is accused of posting racist and anti-Semitic messages to an online forum frequented by police.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Jennifer Epps-Addison, president of the Center for Popular Democracy, about Democratic gains in Georgia fueled by community organizers.

The fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh has touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis and Armenians who call Russia home.

Some say Black sailors have to navigate both unconscious and active bias in the Navy.

Earlier this year things were looking grim for the auto sector. Plants were shut down and experts predicted a big drop in demand. But now automakers are making a lot of money.

In the new comedy series Moonbase 8, a team of woefully underqualified NASA astronauts, played by John C. Reilly, Fred Armisen and Tim Heidecker, set their sights on the moon.

With election ballots still being counted in many states, misinformation about the tally is percolating on social media. Tech companies are working furiously to stop it.

The Southeast Asian nation holds a general election this weekend — the second time since the military ceded absolute power in 2011. There's little doubt the National League for Democracy will win.

Joe Biden is increasingly likely to get to the 270 electoral college votes needed to become president. President Trump is making false claims and casting doubt on the legitimacy of the election.

Linda Diaz, who won this year's Tiny Desk Contest at NPR Music, is a chess expert and international chess champion. She sat down to talk with us about the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit.

Lawsuits filed across the country are the result of a campaign legal team working to "bend reality" to fit Trump's false claims, says one expert.

U.S. employers added 638,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate dipped to 6.9%. A winter spike in coronavirus infections threatens to further weaken job growth.

The outcomes of elections for North Carolina's top lawyer and top judge likely won't be settled for at least several more days as mail-in ballots trickle in and provisional ballots are scrutinized statewide.

The country said it discovered a virus mutation that can spread to humans. Danish officials are concerned it could impact the body's ability to form antibodies.

Stocks have traditionally done well with a Democrat in the White House and Congress under Republican control.

During remote classes, teachers get to glimpse some students' lives. Sometimes they observe things they never knew about at school. It has some teachers considering whether they've witnessed abuse.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Tammy Patrick, senior adviser to the Democracy Fund, about the integrity of state ballot counting.

The Trump campaign has launched a slew of lawsuits in several states designed to dent Joe Biden's growing lead in the vote count. But state courts are quickly dismissing some of those suits.