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The author Aravind Adiga has never glossed over the challenges facing people in India. His latest book, Selection Day, is about two brothers who grow up in a Mumbai slum being told that their only way out is through cricket.

The U.S. "has the highest rate of gun-related deaths among industrialized countries, with more than 30,000 fatalities annually," the study says. Yet funding for gun violence research is limited.

House Republicans have dropped plans to gut the independent ethics office after criticism from watchdog groups and President-elect Donald Trump.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers famously saved Fisk University from financial ruin 150 years ago. But even now, the Nashville school's financial problems remain.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Leo Wise, who served as the first head of the Office of Congressional Ethics, about the history of the office.

U.K. officials are making plans to leave the European Union. They'll do it using the EU's own constitutional rules. Our Planet Money teams looks into why the EU has a built in exit clause.

A statement released on Tuesday by NBC News said Megyn Kelly will host a weekday morning program and will also have a Sunday evening show. The switch will take place later this year.

The latest chapter in South Korea's political drama is under way — a court has begun deciding whether to remove the impeached president from office.

Emily Bitto's new novel is set in the overheated avant-garde art scene of Depression-era Melbourne, where two girls — conventional Lily and sharp-tongued, exotic Eva — form a complicated bond.

Charlotte School of Law is not planning to enroll any new students this coming semester and it's unclear classes will resume for current students.School…

Police are using a 1970's classic rock song to get people to be safer on the roads. One officer wrote on his Facebook page that it would be a better fit if the song was called "Blinded by the White."

The singer, known for his darkly comical storytelling, says he'll release the calypso- and disco-inspired Life Will See You Now later this year.

Updated at 10:45 p.m. Jan. 3, 2017 A Rolesville High School student on Tuesday posted a video to social media of a classmate being slammed to the ground...

Charlotte Mecklenburg Police are searching for two men they say are responsible for fatally shooting a teenager as he sat in the backseat of a car with…

David Greene talks to Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, a member of the panel, about what intelligence officials had to say about findings that Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election.

Now we're going to go about 360 million light years from Earth. That's where a pair of researchers has found a new type of galaxy. It officially has the…

Activist groups in Wake County are urging the U.S. Department of Education to take action against what they say are discriminatory disciplinary...

Sex offenders in the state are often detained indefinitely, even following the end of their prison sentence — a practice civil rights advocates say is unfair.

Author Ben Westhoff talks with Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti about Tupac's influence on modern rappers, and the inherent contradictions of gangsta rap.

Obamacare showdown. Russian hacking hearing. Terror in Istanbul. Mariah Carey’s New Year’s meltdown. Our weekly news round table goes behind the headlines.