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Yuval Noah Harari says data is the new source of political power, and he worries that big data and AI technology threaten to destroy liberal democracy.

Wage growth has (finally) been accelerating, but what else are companies doing to bid for workers?

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Washington Post economics columnist Steven Pearlstein about the state of the economy ahead of the midterm elections.

In his essay this week, NPR's Scott Simon reflects on his time spent covering the war in Bosnia and what we might learn now.

North Carolina voters have cast 2,038,810 ballots in early voting ahead of Tuesday’s midterm election, according to numbers released Sunday by the state…

Americans will soon determine who controls Congress for the final two years of President Trump's first term. But polling says a large portion of Americans don't think elections are fair.

WFAE listener Chris Broughton and his family wrote in wondering why Charlotte seems to have so many abandoned cars left on the side of the highway."I…

Updated 7:58 p.m.Police and residents in the Mexican state of Chihuahua are continuing their land-and-air search for a 34-year-old Davidson man who has…

Police have arrested a man in connection with a murder that occurred Sunday afternoon in southwest Charlotte.Deshawn Lamont Clipper, 31, was arrested in…

The Los Angeles medical examiner said cocaine and ethanol were also present at the time of death.

A 20-year-old man was arrested in Cary, North Carolina, over the weekend for ethnic intimidation after he threatened a synagogue.Captain Randall Rhyne…

The Trump administration says it will be relentless with its sanctions against Iran until it's a "normal country," but still giving major importers of Iranian oil a chance to continue business without penalties.

Charlotte residents will vote today on a $50 million bond referendum designed to ease the city’s affordable housing shortage. The affordable housing…

The request followed the execution of another inmate who chose the electric chair rather than lethal injection. Only three states still allow the use of firing squads as a means of execution.

Updated 12:46 p.m.A shooting inside the Walmart on Bryton Town Center Drive, off Old Statesville Road, in Huntersville left one dead on Monday, according…

Tuesday’s election has no governor’s race or Senate race on the ballot in North Carolina, but voters seem especially interested in the election, based on…

As voters head to the polls today, we hear from artists whose music speaks to our current political and cultural moment.

Bojangles' will be acquired by two New York firms. The fast food chain founded in Charlotte in 1977 said Tuesday it has agreed to be acquired by…

Topline writers like Sia shape the sound of pop most directly — and everyone from Rihanna to Halsey to Beyoncé has been impacted by the shape created by Sia's voice and songwriting.

The legendary opera diva is on tour, as a hologram, with a live orchestra. But behind the dramatic music, truth and fiction are blurred.