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Police have made an arrest after a man fired multiple shots at a group of people in north Charlotte, striking one 12-year-old boy in the leg, and narrowly…

Once the hub of steel production, Pittsburgh is now a hotspot for another burgeoning industry: artificial intelligence.

South Carolina’s estimated financial losses from Florence are at more than $1.2 billion, according to Gov. Henry McMaster.He provided the preliminary…

This by-the-numbers documentary misses a step by focusing on the late Gilda Radner's celebrity over her comedy, but it's effective when it lets her recently discovered journals do the talking.

A ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized on Lake Victoria in Tanzania and at least 100 people are feared dead.

Mediator Salman Shaikh is preparing for the eventual end to the civil war in Syria. He tells Steve Inskeep about how a new constitution would give the opposition credibility and leverage.

Betty Goedhart of Escondido will appear in the 2019 Guinness World Records as the oldest performing female trapeze artist. She set the record when she was 84 but her eye was on the sport much earlier.

Rachel Martin talks to NPR Music critic Ann Powers about Piano & a Microphone 1983, Prince's first posthumous album of previously unreleased material, out now.

Christine Blasey Ford’s account of allegedly being sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers is provoking both…

Flood waters have forced Duke Energy to shut down its power plant along the Cape Fear River near Wilmington. Duke said Friday it shut down the gas-fired…

White's drumming made her one of the loudest musicians of this century, yet she's often remembered for being a quiet person — setting a no-apologies template for letting her work speak for itself.

Rents in America are leveling off. At last!

Statue of the journalist Alice Dunnigan was unveiled Friday at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Dunnigan was the first African American woman credentialed to cover the White House and Congress.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Eli Hager, a reporter for The Marshall Project,about his recent piece on the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Gymnasts are experts in one kind of vault ... but what about the kind you store your stuff in? Three questions for Olympian Aly Raisman, who has chronicled her career in the memoir Fierce.

A new biography of the African-American playwright shows that she was so much more than her most famous work: A Raisin in the Sun.

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Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Crustacean Inhalation; 8-Legged Smileand American Dressing.

Residents of the Philippines say things aren't as bad as once feared, after being hit by a super typhoon.

Good Charlotte ruled the pop punk world in the early 2000s. Now, as rocker dads, the band has released a new album to inform the next generation about depression, drug use and more.