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The United Nations is warning of a famine in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia and its allies are fighting Iranian-backed rebels.

After Saudi Arabia was accused of a journalist's murder, many investors pulled out of a Saudi business summit. But Ben Chu of The Independent tells NPR's David Greene that the conference was packed.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with commentator Cokie Roberts who answers listener questions about the history of relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

Police have charged a man with threatening an African-American GOP volunteer Wednesday at an early voting precinct in Charlotte's Steele Creek…

In this tactile novel, the celebrated Norwegian musician Jenny Hval places two entropic lovers within a converted Australian brewery to explore sexuality, decay and freedom.

Frank Underwood is dead and his wife Claire is the country's first female president. Actor Robin Wright and showrunners Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese talk about bringing the show to a close.

Mecklenburg County has six competitive races in the state legislature, with the Republican Party’s Super Majority in the General Assembly at stake.And…

The UNC System Board of Governors has approved the terms of separation for UNC system president Margaret Spellings after a two-hour closed session Friday…

Tina (Eva Melander), a Swedish customs official, can smell when someone's lying. When she meets a stranger (Eero Milonoff) who knows more about her than he's saying, she sets out to find answers.

Director/co-writer Lee Chang-dong adapts a haunting Murakami short story about a young man drawn into the lives of a woman, her cat and a handsome, mysterious stranger.

The health insurance plan for more than 727,000 North Carolina employees is making a big change. Starting in 2020, the state will use Medicare rates as a…

After more than four years of construction, 36th Street reopened Thursday evening between North Tryon and North Davidson streets in the NoDa…

In an interview with StoryCorps, Kaysen Ford talks to his mother, Jennifer Sumner, about being transgender and growing up in Alabama.

Twenty-two co-workers with Union County's Department of Social Serivces are each $32,000 richer after sharing a $1 million lottery prize from Tuesday’s…

The iconic Irish singer, now known as Shuhada' Davitt, proclaimed herself a Muslim on Thursday.

UNC System President Margaret Spellings has resigned after three years as the leader of the 17-campus system. Today, the Board of Governors voted to…

A daunting trifecta is threatening many Midwest farmers' profit margin: wet fields, stubbornly low crop prices exacerbated by a trade war with China — and some twists from the new tax law.

We assume that winning the lottery will make us happier. In some ways it does, in others — not so much.

The Florida man charged on Friday ran afoul of the law for decades and was arrested for a slew of crimes, including larceny, drug possession and making a bomb threat.

Two major hurricanes hit North Carolina in the last month, and, while the damage was severe to some parts of the state, damage from flooding in the…