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Belmont Abbey basketball coach Stephen Miss was a fencer in college at North Carolina and spent a year at Oxford studying Irish theatre. Robert Lahser -…

In the messages, Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity urge Meadows to get then-President Donald Trump to tell his supporters to leave the Capitol.

Tourism revenue topped $35 billion dollars in 2023, a record high and 22% higher than in 2019. Income from that spending, or what shops and hotels made in profit, also hit a record high. But employment was still 6% below levels of 2019.

The Feb. 6 earthquake and its aftershocks left nearly 3 million displaced and in need of shelter. In the hard-hit city of Adiyaman, families wait for promises of new homes to be fulfilled.

In the face of rising COVID-19 cases, Dr. Bob Wachter of the University of California, San Francisco, offers reasons to be hopeful about the pandemic's outlook in the months ahead.

NPR's Shannon Bond talks with Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, known as "the Hendrix of the Sahara," about his new album.

COVID-19 cases are on the rise, making professional and college sports officials nervous. Plus, a local high school basketball star has signed a deal that lets him take advantage of name, image and likeness rules. Oh, and it's NBA draft time. What'll happen with the Charlotte Hornets?

The Truist Championship gets underway this week at Quail Hollow Club, drawing eight of the top 10 players in the Official World Golf Ranking.

The last two names of the six U.S. soldiers killed in a Kuwait attack have been released by the Pentagon, and they are from California and Iowa. They died Sunday when a drone hit a command center in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.

Abby Grossberg says she was misled by Fox lawyers who prepared her to testify in the defamation lawsuit. Fox News says she's revealed confidential information and has sued her.

The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting to save his job. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to political commentator Rafael Behr about whether the U.K. is becoming ungovernable.

For decades, race and public education have been two sides of the same coin and the discussion of those two topics is unfolding again as the…

Which Democrat will face Republican Edwin Peacock in the Nov. 3 Charlotte mayoral election? It's down to Jennifer Roberts and Dan Clodfelter in the…

http://66.225.205.104/CT20100426.mp3Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools Budget For months, CMS officials have been struggling with budget cuts, announcing…

A bill is moving through the North Carolina General Assembly named after Dominique Moody. The 6-year-old died last year after being beaten and starved. Investigations found that the Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services had received reports of abuse but failed to protect the child. We look at that failure, the role local reporting played in exposing it and what this bill would do to address it.

Before revealing this year's winner, judges share eight genre-defying entries as part of our Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf series.

Pastry chef Aggie Chin talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about desserts for your New Year's Eve party. This week, it's citrus pavlova cake.

The 21-year-old American star battled back over three sets to defeat the world's top-ranked player, Aryna Sabalenka. Gauff is the first American to win at Roland-Garros since Serena Williams in 2015.

After months of disruption in a massive national feeding effort by global groups, there's a scramble to digitally register more than 6 million Ethiopians to make sure food aid goes to those in need.

From the insurrection on Jan. 6 to a rise in political violence, many experts consider this a moment of crisis for American democracy. But one historian argues the country has faced similar challenges before, and those lessons can shed light on how to build a stronger, more vibrant democracy than ever before.