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Nonprofits and community members across Charlotte have taken action to help neighbors affected by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's “Operation Charlotte’s Web.” WFAE has compiled this list of organizations you can support or volunteer with to help those in your community impacted by Border Patrol operations, links to their websites and a description of their needs.

A new resolution in Congress named Oct. 26, 2022, as Public Radio Music Day. We celebrate with the president of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and a co-founder of JazzArts Charlotte, then get national perspective on everything from Taylor Swift's new album to the sustainability of the live music industry.

Last year was a landmark year for the Supreme Court. The high court made rulings expanding gun rights, limiting the EPA and striking down Roe. For Michael Waldman, author of the new book "The Supermajority," that's not a good thing.

Mike Collins and our panel of guests discuss how transgender kids are affected by being at the center of culture wars raging throughout the country.

After everything that's happened — the primaries, caucuses, V.P. picks and conventions — it's now time for the debates. They have the capacity to change the dynamic. But, more times than not, they don't.

Elana Gordon covers the health beat at KCUR. She was previously a production assistant for KCURâ

House Democrats recommend Congress look at ways to force the companies to split off some of their businesses, saying the tech giants have exploited their power to benefit themselves and hurt rivals.

The spelling and pronunciation of Little Sugar Creek, which flows into Sugar Creek (or is it Sugaw Creek?) have been a source of debate for well over 200…

It's another week of college football and yet another scandal, this time at Oklahoma State, the subject of a five part investigative story by Sports Illustrated involving athletes taking cash from coaches, sex, and drugs. Sportswriter Stefan Fatsis joins Audie Cornish to talk about that and the ultra-hyped big game between Alabama, the defending national champion and Texas A&M, home of the most polarizing player in college football, quarterback Johnny Manziel.

Perhaps more than any other U.S. state or territory, Hawaii's path to statehood was paved with political obstacles and roadblocks stemming from racism.

A Decent Ride brings back many of Welsh's beloved characters with their ribald humor and Scottish vernacular, but now they must address a new challenge: aging.

Look, of course Sharknado 2 is stupid. That's not the question. The question is whether it still makes a good party game.

Austin Grossman's new novel is half Lovecraftian horror, half thoughtful character study of a President Nixon who's in charge of an alternate America built not on democracy, but on dark magic.

Sarah Gerard's new novel follows a young woman suffering from an eating disorder, and her alcoholic boyfriend. Reviewer Jason Heller says the book balances real-world issues and emotional punch.

Washington D.C. punk legend Ian Svenonius veers from anarchist tirade to Swiftian satire in this new essay collection, which takes aim at tipping, Ikea, censorship, music and yes, NPR too.

Karin Tidbeck's new novel is set in the mysterious city of Amatka, an agricultural colony ruled by a totalitarian government — but this is no standard dystopia. In Amatka, language has strange power.

The aftermath of office vending machine binges can be unpleasant, psychologically and physically. So we're glad to be sitting far from the vending machine in NPR's new building, where we'll be moving on Monday.

New Year’s Resolutions to save money, spend less, and waste less sound great when we make them, but when trying to practice those lofty ambitions, it’s…

Emerging as a major pop star in 2019, Eilish is emblematic of her moment: a rebel who is also a popular kid, a loud cultural presence emanating from a carefully maintained private place.

Israel announced a barrage of new strikes on western Iran on Sunday, while Iran's foreign minister said the country has not asked for a ceasefire as President Trump had claimed.