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College is hard for many students and families to afford. But take federal financial aid out of the picture, plus in-state rates for public colleges and…

Welcome to A Trifling Place, a podcast dedicated to exploring the ins-and-outs of Charlotte. When I first moved to Charlotte, the one thing I complained…

A look back at some of the bigger conversations and interesting ideas that emerged from the tech ideas fest and marketing bonanza.

The giant retailer was hit by a massive breach that exposed tens of millions of customer credit cards to cyberthieves. A Bloomberg Businessweek investigation found that Target missed early warnings.

In Denis Villeneuve's stylish thriller, Jake Gyllenhaal is Adam — and Anthony, two men who look exactly alike and can't figure out why. Twins, madness, tricks? We're kept guessing until the very end.

A British couple tries to re-create the magic of their Paris honeymoon 30 years later. NPR's Bob Mondello says the couple's "second adolescence" is great fun to watch.

In a role written specifically for her, screen icon Catherine Deneuve is Bettie, a woman in crisis who abruptly leaves her provincial French restaurant for a road trip around the country.

Duke Energy has announced plans to close many coal ash ponds across the state, including at the Riverbend Steam Station on Mountain Island Lake, after at…

A unique mineral trapped inside a unique diamond bolsters the theory that oceans of non-liquid water lurk hundreds of miles below the planet's surface.

Set in Los Angeles' large Iranian-American community, Shirin In Love tracks an all-too-predictable love triangle among Shirin, her Iranian plastic-surgeon fiance, and the white son of a famous author.

The narrow ruling applies to defendants who were in the appeals process when Colorado legalized the recreational use of pot.

The show aired its last episode in 2007, but this week, after a record-setting Kickstarter campaign, its sharp-elbowed detective protagonist makes her big-screen debut.

The standoff between Russia and Ukraine is being watched closely to see how a tool of modern warfare, cyber operations, might be employed. So far, what's been seen isn't too sophisticated.

Convicted murderer James Robert Jones, 69, was arrested in south Florida. He'd been on the run since slipping out of Fort Leavenworth in 1977.

Major construction of bridges and tracks for the blue line light rail extension will begin in the next few months. And with that, be ready to spend more…

In her latest album, French-Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux finds inspiration in the birth of her child and the complexities of womanhood. She shares her thoughts on making music that's universal.

Amid pressure to slow deportations and after meeting with Hispanic congressional leaders, President Obama said he would look at more humane ways to enforce immigration laws.

Pidgin English is a second language for tens of millions of Nigerians, but it's not every day that you hear a diplomat speaking it. The U.S. ambassador recently gave it a shot in a radio interview.

Siri Hustvedt's latest uses fragmented documents to tell the story of an artist who chooses men to present her work. Reviewer Amal El-Mohtar calls the book complex, harrowing, playful and engrossing.

Scott Weems' book HA! explores the science of when we laugh and why. He describes the part of your brain that's active when you laugh, and the controversy over whether ducks are funnier than chickens.