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RALEIGH — North Carolina state judges soon will hear arguments on whether congressional districts challenged by voters who say the lines are tainted by…

Voters in Montgomery, Ala., have elected the city's first-ever black mayor. Steven Reed will now lead Alabama's capital city that was once known as the cradle of the Confederacy.

A man who was fired after raising serious allegations of health and safety concerns at the Mecklenburg County Health Department is now suing the county.In…

Increasingly, Columbus Day is giving people pause.More and more towns and cities across the country are electing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day as…

In the days after the company banned a Hong Kong player from competing, people across the world denounced Blizzard and showed their support for pro-democracy protests.

The intentional blackout in northern California is now in its third day. The longer it lasts, the harder it is for residents, businesses, and governments to cope.

In Girl, a young woman in Nigeria is abducted by Boko Haram — and that's just the beginning. For nearly 60 years, its Irish author has written about women "both as victims and as fighters, combined."

RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper aims to create a state-funded program to help residents in four North Carolina counties recover from Hurricane Dorian after the…

About 11,000 children are in foster care in North Carolina — nearly 500 in Mecklenburg County, according to county officials. National, state and local…

Jazz drummer, bandleader and mentor Art Blakey was born 100 years ago. The Jazz Messengers came to be called Blakey's University and graduated stars Donald Byrd, Wayne Shorter and Wynton Marsalis.

Two of the planes crashed, killing hundreds. The review panel finds that Boeing withheld critical details about a flawed new automated system, and the regulators lacked expertise to find the problem.

More than $6 million so far have been raised to help the victims of the August massacre. On Saturday, One Fund El Paso is hosting a community resource fair to help those who qualify.

One woman turned her home into an ad hoc shelter for Haitians displaced by the storm and facing discrimination.

Protesters, schoolchildren and some of the government's most prominent critics have all been detained in a government clampdown. So was a 22-year-old American college student, accused of spying.

Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, says she was pushed out of her role based on "unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives."

Turkey's incursion into Syria to root out Kurdish fighters who have been U.S. allies is wreaking havoc for civilians. Doctors and whole families have become displaced and some have escaped to Iraq.

Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party leads its opposition in opinion polls ahead of Sunday's election. "Christianity is part of our national identity," party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said recently.

Adam DeVine plays a lonely nerd whose phone takes over his life in this lazy, generic satire.

Elizabeth Strout won a Pulitzer Prize for her 2008 novel that spun together 13 connected stories of love, loss and loneliness. She returns to the small town of Crosby, Maine in Olive, Again.

Michael Leighton played professional hockey for 21 teams in 18 years. He just retired at age 38 and tells NPR's Scott Simon about his career as a journeyman goalie.