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New York City police said detectives executed a search warrant on a Bronx apartment when they found the narcotics and other paraphernalia concealed by plywood and tile flooring.

Guitarist Brian May of Queen is also an astrophysicist who worked on the NASA mission to bring dust back from an asteroid. He's not the only celebrity with an interesting side hustle.

The world is awash in "Royal Baby Fever," but in London, the much-trumpeted affliction is more of a summer silly season snuffle — spreading faster around the world than it is in the U.K.

The North Carolina House voted Tuesday on a resolution to support Israel against the terrorist organization Hamas. Twelve Democrats, including three from the Charlotte area, did not vote.

The House is gearing up for a Wednesday vote on legislation that could lead to a ban on one of the most widely used apps in the world, with an estimated 170 million users in the United States alone.

North Carolina political figures react to the news that President Joe Biden is dropping out of the race.

Djokovic is the all-time leader for most Grand Slam men's singles titles and one of only three men to hold all four Grand Slam championships simultaneously. But an Olympic gold had escaped him.

The announcement comes in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump last Saturday.

Boeing's troubled Starliner remains docked at the International Space Station as NASA decides it is too risky to bring the astronauts home on the spacecraft. The two astronauts will return in February.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board voted Tuesday night to approve several changes to student assignment, mostly affecting magnet schools. But the changes did not include creating hundreds of seats in early college programs or adding more students to the already overcrowded Dilworth Elementary School.

Oran Etkin creates musical connections around the globe. He also makes instruments come to life in his Timbalooloo program for children.

The remains of the former monument in Pack Square will be destroyed, City Attorney Brad Branham said.

An art installation called The Portal was shut down this week in New York and Dublin because of rude gestures and other bad public behavior, as NPR's Scott Simon explains.

The U.S. has launched another round of strikes against the Islamic State in Syria. This follows last month's ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and an American civilian interpreter.

Seven inmates at the Mecklenburg County jail uptown have died over the past 13 months. A state inspector has found officers missed many safety checks in the hours leading up to most of those deaths.

A former North Carolina police chief who resigned nearly two weeks ago amid an investigation into missing evidence is accused by authorities of taking a variety of narcotics, thousands of dollars in cash and firearms.

Multi-instrumentalist, engineer, composer and producer Morgan Guerin invites us to his home studio to hear tracks from his new, lush, genre-bending record, Tales of the Facade.

A new federal law now affirms the operation of a casino in North Carolina by the South Carolina-based Catawba Indian Nation, ending a yearslong dispute between the Catawba Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokee, which operates a casino in the westernmost part of the state.

What happens when musicians aren't rushing from gig to gig? At the Ponta Lopud Jazz Festival in Croatia, they stay, connect and play.

The French government is pressing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to release the 86-year-old French widow of a military veteran from immigration custody in Louisiana after she was detained earlier this month.