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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools promises renovated schools in 2025 and selects a project manager for $2.5 billion in bond projects.

See some of this year's most memorable red carpet looks.

In a statement provided to WUNC, Gov. Roy Cooper said Apple is still committed to investing in North Carolina. The tech company reportedly wants to delay its timeline for completion of the campus by four years.

A North Carolina man was charged by federal authorities with music streaming fraud aided by artificial intelligence song creation.

Sixty-one years ago Dwight was an astronaut candidate. Sunday, along with five others, he made the trip on a rocket owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — making him the oldest person to go to space.

African American oral tradition rich with memories, testimonies and songs from the hard days of 19th century slavery.

The networks that helped to unify the African American community as a people and bring the music to a national audience.

Shout songs, drums, clapping, horns and choral chants that fed the evolution of 20th century gospel music.

The legacy of this internationally renowned ensemble, innovators of the "jubilee" singing style that influenced the national sound of quartets in the black community before World War II.

The Brooklyn-based rapper reimagines his music with a star-studded band and teary-eyed gratitude.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on a poll that asks Americans to rate public figures, both at home and abroad.

The fictional car, known as K.I.T.T., Knight Industries Two Thousand, was a TV fantasy in the 1980s. Today, of course, some real-life cars can talk to you as well as drive themselves.



This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, special guest James Gunn and panelists Paula Poundstone, Adam Burke, and Bobcat Goldthwait

Conservationists have pulled a historic canoe from a river at the Georgia-South Carolina line and plan to put it on display. Archaeologists say the boat could be 200 to 250 years old.

The IRS can now share some undocumented immigrants’ tax records with immigration enforcement — a policy shift raising concerns in immigrant communities.

Police charge a teacher at Community House Middle School in south Charlotte with possessing and distributing child pornography.

Nursing homes are often thought of as grim places. But a new approach is being tested. Instead of an institutional setting, the goal now is to provide a homelike — but safe — atmosphere for residents.

Over 130 critics voted on the best jazz albums of 2018 — celebrated elders dominated the top of the results, but a class of younger musicians is rising.

In the new memoir The Soundtrack of My Life, the legendary record producer and industry executive shares stories from his more than four-decade career.

To mark the bicentennial of the War of 1812, the Ohio Historical Society's new exhibit features important artifacts and information on the war and Ohio's role in it. The exhibit, "War of 1812: Ohio on the Front Line," features memorabilia that tells the stories of the people behind the war.