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In our time, it's easy to shut your mind, driven by fear or misinformation. This year, NPR Music's pop critic found the antidote in music that encouraged exploring.

PG-rated movies are leading the drive back to theaters following COVID, and the film industry has kids to thank!

The DOJ has sued the entire federal district court in Maryland over an order that puts a temporary hold on deportations, intensifying a confrontation between the Trump administration and the courts.

A young rescue worker who helped evacuate thousands from his hometown — a city now synonymous with the war's longest and bloodiest battle — grieves its loss but refuses to leave the frontline.

A palliative care doctor in Austin says listening to vinyl music can lift heavy moments for families and patients receiving end-of-life care.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is being held in the troubled New York City jail that has housed high-profile defendants like Sean "Diddy" Combs, Ghislaine Maxwell and Honduras' former president.

A bipartisan congressional delegation traveled to Denmark to try to deescalate rising tensions. Just as they were finishing, President Trump announced new tariffs on the country until it agrees to his plan of acquiring Greenland.

President Joe Biden spoke from the White House about the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide. He said the court has done what it’s never done before in taking away a constitutional right that is so fundamental to so many Americans.

Recent acts of vandalism against a Sikh house of worship in south Charlotte are the latest examples of hostility toward faith groups that have taken place for thousands of years.

The state Senate passed two bills Tuesday that would change election rules for a handful of school boards in the western half of the state. Some will give a boost to Republican candidates in majority Republican counties, and changes in Buncombe County will redraw school board electoral maps. The House must agree to the changes to become law.

Six towns in Dare County have filed a lawsuit to block part of the state budget bill that bans them from regulating a new state-funded affordable housing project led by political donors.

A member is suing Myers Park Country Club over renovation plans. Also in BizWorthy: The YMCA of Greater Charlotte gets an $18 million donation from Mackenzie Scott, the popular "Bob & Sherri" show loses its longtime Charlotte radio home and Amazon expands in the region — again.

Full-time undergraduate enrollment in the University of North Carolina System remained virtually flat from fall 2019 to fall 2020 as COVID-19 changed students’ plans and the universities’ financial situations.

Former Northwest School of the Arts teacher Corey Mitchell — who won a Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre Education — has created a program that provides training and college prep for talented but disadvantaged students at Central Piedmont Community College's Levine Campus in Matthews.

If you want to get a better sense of how police operate in schools in North Carolina, you’re going to have a hard time getting that information. Schools are supposed to track the number of students they refer to police. But many districts aren’t doing that.

From messaging to strategy to financial projections, the City Council’s discussion this week shows Charlotte’s big transit plan remains a work in progress.

The owners of four historic landmarks in Charlotte have applied to demolish the buildings, most of which are at least a century old. Local preservationists tell the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter it’s the highest number of historic buildings facing demolition at once they’ve ever seen. The Ledger’s Tony Mecia joins WFAE's Marshall Terry to discuss this, and other local business news, on this week's BizWorthy.

A group formed last year for the sole purpose of investing in minority-owned Charlotte-area businesses has purchased another company. Bright Hope Capital bought trucking company Big Prime Hauling in Gastonia.

North Carolina education officials met this week to put finishing touches on a new social studies and history curriculum for public schools. Instead they clashed over deep divides on race, gender identity and politics.

The difficulties for families adds to the patchwork of complaints about immigration oversight and other issues while the department remains without government funding for five weeks.