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Raleigh's Veronica Fraley will throw the discus in Paris at the 2024 Olympic Games. She joins a long list of Olympians with North Carolina ties that includes Steph Curry, Bam Adebayo and Anna Cockrell.

The new novel follows a black journalist in Kansas City in the aftermath of the Civil War. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with LaShonda Katrice Barnett about her book.

Groups that connect elders and teens — both in real life and online — have a new sense of urgency in the loneliness epidemic.

The startup Mahmee hopes to help OB-GYNs, pediatricians and other health providers closely monitor a mother and baby's health so that any red flags can be assessed before they become life-threatening.

NPR's Student Podcast Challenge receives entries from students in grades 4-12 from all over the country. These are the fourth grade winners.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Washington Post reporter Rachel Kurzius about "Heated Rivalry," the romance series about hockey players falling in love. The finale is streaming now.

Relatives of a 27-year-old Honduran man say he was denied dialysis and pressured into signing a voluntary deportation order after being detained during "Operation Charlotte's Web." ICE denies the allegation.

Coach Mike Krzyzewski's farewell tour is headed to his record-setting 13th Final Four after Duke overwhelmed Arkansas 78-69 in the Blue Devils' most complete performance of this NCAA Tournament run.

When you're young, the choice between meeting others' expectations and making your own way can feel all-consuming. Along the way, it helps to have a soundtrack that draws equally from rage and wisdom.

Williamstown Theatre Festival in western Massachusetts offers a summer program that has been called "theater boot camp." British-trained actor Roger Rees is the company's new artistic director.

NPR's Tom Bowman says his decades of roaming Pentagon halls ended after NPR refused to sign a new policy requiring reporters to wait for official information releases - but his reporting hasn't slowed at all.

The Wedding Report estimates the wedding industry will lose $47 billion in sales over 2020 and 2021 because of the pandemic. Weddings were canceled, leading the flower business to take a hit, too. Everyone is trying to recover in 2021 — but it's still an uphill battle.

Last year, every graduating senior at Ballou High School got into college. A WAMU and NPR investigation shows that many of those students missed more than a month of school and struggled academically.

The man who wrote the book on the collapse of Bear Stearns talks about what happened a decade ago and where we are today.

We'll play a children's song by a well-known musical artist, and contestants ring in to tell us who's singing.

In this music game, we've rewritten songs with the word "house" in the title to be about famous residences.

Police are conducting a homicide investigation after a man was found dead inside a north Charlotte home Sunday morning.The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police…

http://66.225.205.104/CT20110302.mp3 Elder Care People across the country are already facing the tough decisions on how to care for an aging parent. How…

The Mall of America has about 500 stores. One artist visited every one and created a sculpture that represents her journey.

http://66.225.205.104/JB20060111.mp3(1/11/06) The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department recently launched a new task force to help curb street crimes.…