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A crowd of people gathered in downtown Durham late Monday to witness the toppling of a long-time Confederate monument. On Twitter, Governor Roy Cooper…

For two London artists on a whirlwind U.S. tour, time is precious, gains are scarce and fun is mandatory. Writer Eve Barlow joins Marika Hackman and The Big Moon on their mission to break America.

Kamila Shamsie's new book — beautifully written and paced — updates the ancient story of Antigone to tell an explosive story of two families tangled together by love, grief and religious radicalism.

Photographer Alvin Jacobs of Charlotte does what you’d expect a photographer to do: Lots of personal portraits and fashion photography are in his…

In his book "The Ends of the World," Peter Brannen looks at what happened to cause past crises and extinctions, and tries to determine what our future might bring.

2:45 p.m.A North Carolina sheriff says he has identified some of the people who toppled a nearly century-old Confederate statue, and he plans to charge…

South Carolina’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company for the way it marketed opioid medications. At least five other states…

Seventy years after the partition of India and Pakistan, both countries are still shaped by the turmoil of that time. Most estimates say that more than a million people were killed during one of the largest mass migrations in history.

Managing the U.S.-Russia relationship is one of the most important jobs for any president. Yet for all the talk about Trump and Russia, he's yet to lay out a grand plan for dealing with Moscow.

Vice President Mike Pence is spending the week in South America, discussing trade and the crisis in Venezuela with U.S. allies, but he's also doing a fair amount of answering for the president.

Updated at 7:26 p.m. ETIn a stunning reversal from comments he made just one day prior, President Trump said on Tuesday "there's blame on both sides" for…

A Charlotte-area lawmaker who pushed for the 2015 state law that bars state or local governments from removing Confederate memorials says Monday's…

Rachel Martin graduated from Idaho Falls High School 25 years ago. She's checking in with some of the people she knew in high school — including Eric Hsu, who served as her senior class president.

Our week of guest DJs continues with Björk. In this 2009 conversation the Icelandic singer spoke about her love of Syrian musician Omar Souleyman, fellow Icelandic artist Ólöf Arnalds and more.

A joint investigation by NPR and ProPublica shows how a loophole in Florida law has led to the arrest and even deportation of undocumented immigrants after they suffer legitimate injuries on the job.

Camille Bordas keeps things light in her smart, charming new novel, but there are serious underpinnings to this story about the youngest member of a family of quirky, emotionally closed overachievers.

Also: The University of Florida won't let white nationalist Richard Spencer speak on its campus; a huge power outage is over in Taiwan; and Vice President Pence continues his Latin American tour.

The lazy days of August call for getaway reading, so we've got three romances that'll take you from old China to the small-town South, featuring couples who learn love is closer than they think.

President Trump is placing blame for the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville over the weekend on "both sides," but what is true about what happened that day?

It reversed earlier injunctions that forbade the state from suspending payments to the medical provider over a controversial leaked video of Planned Parenthood staff.