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To kick off summer, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and Felix Contreras, host of Alt.Latino, discuss an album by Cuba musician X Alfonso.

The House committee investigating Jan. 6 says it has evidence showing that former President Trump broke the law by trying to overturn the 2020 election.

We take a look at the Jan. 6 hearings and North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race. Followed by a talk about our lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, who’s been in the news for a series of controversial comments.

http://66.225.205.104/JR20101110a.mp3The CMS school board approved a plan last night to disband three west side middle schools - JT Williams, Bishop…

http://66.225.205.104/JR20101110a.mp3The CMS school board approved a plan last night to disband three west side middle schools - JT Williams, Bishop…

It's time for the press screenings of Les Miserables. They're embargoed after they happen, but we can share what we won't be doing.

The basketball-crazed state of North Carolina has something other than college hoops to get excited about. It turns out its football teams are pretty good, too. For the first time ever, the state’s “Big Four” Atlantic Coast Conference schools of North Carolina, North Carolina State, Wake Forest and Duke -- have all started at least 2-0.

Also: President Trump invites China's president to his Florida resort, Seattle will sue the Trump administration over sanctuary cities; and David Friedman is the new U.S. ambassador to Israel.

After one CEO warned of an economic downturn that will be like a "hurricane," other chief executives suggest the debate over the likelihood of a recession is a tempest in a teapot.

As a deal between the U.S. and the Taliban takes shape, the top American general for the region insists there will continue to be a need to combat terrorism in Afghanistan.

At our desks, in nightclubs, and over bedroom speaker systems, these are the tracks that made us move.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has shed dozens of highly-paid teachers in the past year while adding to the entry-level ranks, an Observer analysis of the…

Simon is one of music's most venerated icons: His career started 50 years ago, when he and Art Garfunkel and began writing pop songs tinged with folk, rock and world music. As a solo act, Simon has found critical and commercial success with the likes of Graceland and the recent Surprise.

How can Charlotte become a greater and more beautiful place?

We're asking community members to share their Big Ideas to make Charlotte better. Join us Saturday afternoon, April 6, at the Pianodrome in Historic AME Zion Church to meet the six top finalists from our call for submissions. During the Big Idea Fair, the public will vote to name the Charlotte Ideas Festival's "2024 Big Idea."

Free and open to the public. Exact time subject to change.

Interested in sharing your Big Idea for consideration? Visit https://www.thecharlottecenter.org/bigidea for the submission form, eligibility requirements and judging criteria. Submissions are due by Saturday, March 9.

About the Charlotte Ideas Festival:
The Charlotte Ideas Festival is a multi-day exploration of today’s pressing ideas and issues through the lens of the humanities. This year’s conversation-packed events feature a range of thinkers, innovators and community members engaged in connection and conversation. A program of The Charlotte Center for the Humanities & Civic Imagination (The Charlotte Center), the Charlotte Ideas Festival is part of the three-week Charlotte SHOUT! festival celebrating Food, Art, Music, and Ideas.

From Roe v. Wade's reversal to loosened gun control measures and a weakened EPA, recent Supreme Court decisions have touched on much of American life. Meanwhile, the Jan. 6 hearings reveal a precarious transition of power. We discuss what recent politics on the national stage means for North Carolina.

Voters in six states cast ballots Tuesday in primary races for U.S. House, Senate and statewide offices. A look at the results.

For the first time, the Church of England has named a woman as its top leader. Sarah Mullally is the new Archbishop of Canterbury, leading 85 million Anglicans around the world.

The U.S. military admitted for the first time last week that one of the prisoners held without charges for more than two years at the base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (also known as Gitmo), was never an al Qaeda or Taliban fighter and should be immediately released. Commentator Connie Rice has been monitoring the tribunal, and she's come up with another of her Top 10 lists -- this time: Top 10 Signs You Might Not Get a Fair Trial in Guantanamo.

This week's election results show education issues foremost in the minds of many voters, and suggest many parents may be seeking a course correction after 18 months of disruptions.

A group of leading Shiite clerics are holding talks to resolve the U.S. standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose anti-American rhetoric touched off a wave of attacks on U.S.-led forces in several Iraqi cities. Al-Sadr's militiamen have withdrawn from police and government buildings they had occupied, but the security situation remains unstable. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.