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North Carolina judges have delayed the enforcement of their ruling that struck down the latest iteration of the state elections board.The extension from…

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Eternal Knickers, The Plumb Tower and The Body's Building Block.

Former president George H.W. Bush's pastor, Reverend Russell Jones Levenson Jr. of St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston, speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his friendship with the president.

In Liyana, filmmakers let kids make up the story. The hybrid documentary/animated film has earned prizes, raves — and a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Mathias Énard's novel — newly translated from French — imagines what would have happened if Michelangelo had accepted an offer from the Ottoman ruler to design a bridge across the Golden Horn.

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Saturday night and announced a new deal to ease trade tensions.

In Lulu's Log, we learn about Mike Puzio. When he was nine years old, he won a contest to name an asteroid. He chose Bennu. On Monday, a NASA spacecraft lands on Bennu for the first time.

Margot Robbie is Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots. "We re-examine history as a way of understanding what's happening in our present time, and where we're heading in the future," she says.

Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown discusses her investigative report on hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, who sexually abused dozens of teenage girls but served only 13 months in a county jail.

Enough confusion has clouded a North Carolina congressional race that the state's Board of Elections has announced a delay to certifying Republican Mark…

George Washington set the tradition for the early presidents with a small, private burial at his estate. Today, the funerals are meticulously planned years in advance by a large military task force.

COMMENTARY: Hanukkah may be the best known Jewish holiday in the United States. But despite its popularity in the U.S., Hanukkah is ranked one of…

A four-game losing streak was enough for the Panthers coach Ron Rivera to make changes to his coaching staff. He fired defensive line coach Brady Hoke and…

UNC Chapel Hill leaders proposed Monday to move a toppled Confederate statue into a new $5 million building on the outskirts of campus. Seeking to balance…

Yadkin Riverkeeper, an environmental group that keeps watch on the Yadkin River, has announced new leadership.Edgar Miller is the organization's new…

China and the U.S. have been locked in a trade war for most of 2018, but peace may be on the horizon.... at least a partial peace.

It's going to be a difficult week for Britain's Conservative party as members are under great pressure from party leadership to support the prime minister's Brexit deal, which many of them oppose.

The world's nations meet in Poland this week to continue negotiations on how to slow climate change as recent research and extreme weather reveal that dangerous effects on climate are already here.

The COP 24 summit could be the most critical international summit on the environment since the meeting that spawned the Paris agreement in 2015.

North Carolina election officials are refusing to certify the results of a congressional race while they investigate a potential case of absentee ballot fraud.