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Companies are trying to figure out the risks to their profits from a warming planet. Some of them are turning to high-tech tools of climate science.

As more people identify themselves as neither categorically male nor female, some employers are making changes to neutralize references to gender in everything from name tags to bathrooms.

Alex Yiu was born a seemingly healthy baby. But by age 2, his muscle control and speech were deteriorating. His baffling condition took a decade to diagnose. The reanalysis of a DNA test was the key.

After the 2001 al-Qaida attacks, the CIA ramped up counterterrorism operations. This included a surge in young, female recruits. Three have written new books about their secretive work.

The NFL admits a disputed call during Monday night's game between Detroit and Green Bay was a mistake by the officials. The league has been criticized all season for referee blunders.

As she settled in for this stripped-down set, Taylor Swift looked out over the office. "I just decided to take this as an opportunity to show you guys how the songs sounded when I first wrote them."

The space agency unveils two new spacesuits for a planned 2024 return to the moon. They're designed to be more comfortable and easier to move around in than their Apollo-era forerunners.

The Washington Nationals won the National League pennant Tuesday night after sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in four games. The Nats will face the winner of the Astros-Yankees series.

The White House is dealing with a fast-moving impeachment inquiry. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Steven Groves, special assistant to the president, about subpoenas. NPR's Franco Ordoñez weighs in.

"Restaurants and cafés are in many ways the lifeblood of espionage," says Amaryllis Fox in a new book. They're ideal places to clandestinely meet people with access to a government or terrorist group.

Richard Bell's true tale details how even as the Underground Railroad ferried enslaved people north towards freedom, free black people vanished from northern cities to be sold into plantation slavery.

The town of Cornelius is poised to come out of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools penalty box when it comes to school construction.In May of 2018, the…

Sacramento, California, appears poised to be the next city to get a Major League Soccer expansion team — not Charlotte. News reports say an announcement…

Violent crime continues to rise across Mecklenburg County, up 11% from last year's data, according to statistics released by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police…

City officials have asked three groups to submit final proposals for the Charlotte Gateway Station development off West Trade Street. The city, Charlotte…

Locke says her new novel "was about place before it was about a character." The story follows a black ranger who patrols East Texas searching for the missing son of an Aryan Brotherhood leader.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Wednesday that she expects the teachers union to move ahead with a strike after a contract agreement wasn't reached.

Two candidates are running for mayor of Matthews, including the incumbent.JOHN HIGDONWhy are you running?I believe Matthews needs a course correction in…

Defending his controversial decision to pull back U.S. forces in Syria in the face of a Turkish incursion into Kurdish parts of the country, President Trump said "it's not our problem."

U.S. military members are on record saying the fight against ISIS will continue, but it's unclear who will carry on that fight after the U.S. pull-out from northern Syria, and the loss of a key ally.