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The pianist and composer, a force on the jazz scene for 50 years, celebrated her 80th birthday with a gala concert and new album — and she has another album on the way.

Michigan State University engineers tried 3-D-printed fingertips and special conductive replicas of the victim's fingerprints to crack the biometric lock on his Samsung Galaxy phone.

Health officials think two people in Miami may have contracted the virus from local mosquitoes. So they're spraying pesticide to help stop the virus from spreading into Florida's mosquito population.

Officially, it’s a clarification. But a recent decision by the North Carolina Board of Elections allows state and local candidates to do something those…

Investigators are combing through data for clues about motives in the San Bernardino attack. A married couple opened fire on a workplace holiday party and seemed to have planned at least the getaway.

Updated: 6:49 p.m.The state Department of Environmental Quality has ordered Duke Energy to excavate coal ash from six remaining coal-fired power plants in…

As the first leader of the Charlotte Area Transit System, Ron Tober opened the Lynx Blue Line in 2007.Tober is now a contractor for the consultant firm…

A nonprofit in Alamance County is celebrating the second anniversary of its working farm. Benevolence Farm provides housing and jobs for North Carolina...

The U.S. women's national soccer team begins its defense of the 2015 World Cup title in June. The U.S. women's team is ranked first in the world while the U.S. men's team struggles internationally.

It’s another busy spring weekend around Charlotte. This weekend’s entertainment options include an eclectic group of events from swallowing swords to a…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in the case Common Cause v. Rucho – a political gerrymandering case with national implications.The…

President Trump is reversing The Department of Education's plans to cut funding for the Special Olympics. The proposed cuts set off a political firestorm.

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey said it was made clear to him when he took office that Global Bankers Insurance Group was treated…

The second “Breaking the Link” report which looks at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools as it relates to race, poverty and achievement, was released Tuesday…

Rocketman star Taron Egerton and director Dexter Fletcher speak with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about memorializing Elton John while he's still here, the film's most meaningful scenes and more.

This year, NPR challenged students across the country to make podcasts about anything. Hundreds of students took on one topic: climate change.

The stock market shot up Friday after the government released a weaker than expected employment report. How is that possible? For an answer we turn our attention to the Federal Reserve.

The abrupt directive on Friday followed a breakdown in talks over proposed changes to the agreement that has guided the basic business relationship between writers and agents for the past 43 years.

Ernest "Fritz" Hollings funeral service was held in the Summerall Chapel on The Citadel campus Tuesday, April 16, 2019, in Charleston, S.C. Hollings died earlier this month at age 97.

The move is an apparent return by the government to the practice President Trump has called "catch and release" and promised to end when he was a presidential candidate.