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Updated 2:58 p.m.Environmental groups are asking South Carolina regulators to let them comment as two utilities seek to recover billions of dollars in…

The fatal police shooting last year of Keith Lamont Scott will get another hearing Tuesday before Charlotte’s Citizens Review Board. At a hearing in June…

The 2017-2018 Broadway series at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center is sold out. The reason? The Tony Award winning musical Hamilton that comes to…

A Google engineer's critique of the company's diversity programs is stoking controversy. The male engineer wrote that women aren't suited for tech jobs for "biological" reasons. Google executives are now trying to tamp down the furor as the memo ricochets around the tech industry and beyond.

There's housing in Venice, Italy, if you've got millions to spend on a vacation home. But some Venetians have started a movement of illegal squatting to continue living in their hometown.

A total solar eclipse is the most beautiful natural spectacle Michael Zeiler has ever seen. The geographer tells NPR's Ari Shapiro that once one witnesses a total eclipse, they'll be hooked for life.

Famine. 20 million people now on the brink in Africa and the Middle East. We’ve got reporters on the frontlines.

Updated 10:13 a.m. Aug. 8Charlotte School of Law said last week it expects to offer students federal loans again in time for the fall semester. To do…

A task force lays out changes that could loosen protections for the bird species renowned for its elaborate mating dance. The rules take into account "local economic growth and job creation."

David Rodigan has spent his entire life exulting in and exalting reggae. In his autobiography, published earlier this year, the soundman stays away from a topic that would seem utterly central.

NPR's Ron Elving reviews a massive new tome on the life of Edwin Stanton, certainly one of the most contentious and controversial figures in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet of rivals.

Two weeks into the NFL training camp, Colin Kaepernick still hasn't been signed to a team

Charlotte Mecklenburg police have charged a Charlotte school teacher with sexually assaulting two children. CMPD says Taji Brown, a 29-year-old fifth…

North Carolina's biggest health insurer has picked a top executive with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to become its next CEO.Blue…

Raila Odinga, who trails incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta by a wide margin in a partial count of results, has accused the election commission of vote rigging.

On Aug. 9, 2007, we witnessed the first tremor of a financial earthquake. Ailsa Chang talks with David Wessel of the Brookings Institution about the economy, 10 years later.

North Korea's government and President Trump have traded threats after North Korea's recent missile tests. And Hadas Gold of Politico discusses pro-Trump news videos on the president's Facebook page.

Kenyans voted for their next president in an election overshadowed by ethnic tensions. A disputed vote a decade ago resulted in 1,200 deaths as tribal allegiances resulted in bloodletting.

A major study in Zambia showed the benefits of just giving poor people money with no strings attached. But the government isn't entirely convinced. Here's why.

The golf blog No Laying Up was Chris Solomon's side-hustle. Now he's going all-in with an irreverent approach that draws a huge audience, including top PGA tour players.