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The leaders of both HUD-funded housing repair programs in western North Carolina told BPR there is not enough money to serve all applicants.

House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the partial shutdown will be over by Tuesday.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in Israeli airstrikes with U.S. support on Saturday. "Operation Epic Fury" will be "massive and ongoing," President Trump said.

Robert Dawkins of Action NC on the pitfalls of the proposed sales tax increase to pay for transit and transportation

North Carolina lawmakers have finished the session they began in January, four months late. Republican leaders said last week they don’t plan to hold any more votes this year. If that’s the case, this session will go down as one of the General Assembly’s most unproductive, depending on the metrics you look at.

Families across Charlotte are going into another week without knowing when their SNAP benefits will arrive. At a Nourish Up food share Monday, the line of cars wrapped around the block, and organizers worried what the surging demand could mean for Thanksgiving.

The first phase of Charlotte’s mixed-use medical district just outside uptown, The Pearl, opened in July. It includes a campus of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, a surgical training center, and medical technology companies. But it’s what The Pearl doesn’t include that has some city and county leaders wanting answers.

It’s time for a fact check of North Carolina politics. This week, we’re looking at claims related to “Operation Charlotte’s Web.” That’s the name the Trump administration gave to the surge of Border Patrol agents in Charlotte last week. For more, Paul Specht of WRAL joined Marshall Terry.

The war in Iran has roiled energy markets. Oil has spiked, natural gas is soaring in Europe and Asia, and gasoline prices have seen their highest one-week jump in years.

Latino voters are the largest non-white voting demographic this year. But the pandemic has created new obstacles to registration in a community that has had a history of low voter turnout in the U.S.

Clemson University political scientist Dave Woodard has spent the past week polling South Carolina voters ahead of Saturday's primary. Host Scott Simon talks to the former Republican political consultant about South Carolina politics and the results of his Palmetto Poll.

Looking to be more active? NPR's Life Kit gives tips for fitting in exercise into a hectic schedule and stay motivated to move with research-backed strategies.

The rapper previously known as Kanye West, scheduled to perform this summer in London, was denied entry into the U.K. on the grounds that his presence "would not be conducive to the public good."

New research from the Democratic Republic of Congo offers a behavioral and anatomical portrait of a species that can achieve surprising athletic feats.

The Pentagon announced last week that the process of the U.S.'s deliberate withdraw from Syria has begun. Rachel Martin talks to Robert Ford, a former U.S. Ambassador to Syria, about the withdraw.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to NASCAR driver Darrell "Bubba" Wallace. Wallace returns to Daytona International Speedway for his second Daytona 500 this weekend.

Sometimes you just need to recombobulate. That word isn't in the dictionary, but it is on a beloved sign at Milwaukee's airport.

The novelty song "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" was featured in just a few seconds of one episode of "30 Rock" more than a decade ago, yet that was just long enough for it to become a Halloween favorite.

Some people who didn't evacuate are now hunkering down in their houses. The National guard and police warn that no one comes in and anyone choosing to leave won't be allowed back. Neighbors inside are making the best of the situation.

Israel has begun a military operation in the occupied West Bank focused on the city of Jenin. Palestinians there worry the focus of the conflict is shifting over to them following a ceasefire in Gaza.