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The figure at the center of the controversy is Zwarte Piet — Black Pete — often portrayed by people who don Afro wigs and paint their faces black.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say the gun recovered from an officer-involved shooting that left one man injured over the weekend is actually a fake. CMPD…

What the yellow vest protests in Paris tell us about economic reform in France and the parallels with politics in the U.S.

Turkey is trying to attract scientists who have left the country. It's a tough task amid the ongoing purge politics and a feeling among scientists that they don't fit in anymore.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, about what President George H.W. Bush accomplished as the unofficial U.S. ambassador to China from 1974-75.

Many students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill are dissatisfied with a university proposal to display a confederate statue in a new history building. The statue was toppled in August.

A unique Union Pacific locomotive — painted to resemble Air Force One — will be part of the train transporting former President George H.W. Bush to his final resting place in College Station, Texas.

In a surprise move, the orchestra announced Wednesday that it is bringing composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen aboard as its music director, beginning in September 2020.

The National Hockey League has announced its latest expansion team in Seattle. The new team is the league's second expansion in three years, on the heels of the NHL's success in Las Vegas.

Brightwood College, a for-profit chain with campuses around the country, including Charlotte, is no longer accepting student applications. The school’s…

Carolina Panthers defensive end Julius Peppers has been named as the team’s nominee for the 2018 Walter Payton Man of the Year award.The award is the…

Inmates are among the least educated people in America, but few prisons offer opportunities beyond a GED. What if people behind bars had access to federal money to help pay for college?

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to national security adviser John Bolton about natural security threats posed by China and the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, scion of a Chinese telecommunications giant.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities have a long history of giving minority students access to education. But as HBCUs around the country face…

Director Josie Rourke's epic, fiercely feminist period piece "does make a powerfully moving case for an uneasy dance between two powerful women hamstrung by male politics."

It’s been busy on the education front. Another for-profit school shut its doors. The joint committee of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and municipal…

Stock prices fell sharply on Thursday as hopes for a lasting trade truce between the U.S. and China faded.

New Census Bureau estimates underscore the digital divide facing Native Americans living on reservations or other American Indian land in the U.S.

2 Milly introduced the popular Milly Rock dance in a 2014 music video. As of July, characters in Fortnite are able to perform a similar dance.

Students say she cut part of one Native American classmate's braids and called another by a racial slur. It happened on Halloween and the teacher was in costume as a 19th century voodoo queen.