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With a yellow background and a black banner on top, some Kansans say it looks too much like New York's plates — or the University of Missouri's colors. Gov. Kelly says it's back to the drawing board.

Someone just spent a record-setting $2.7 million for a bottle of Macallan at an auction. It was bottled in 1986 after 60 years of aging — it was a small batch for top customers.

Wells Fargo has filed a petition to place signage at the top of its iconic tower on South Tryon Street in uptown Charlotte. The director of UNC Charlotte's School of Architecture weighs in on how this fits in to a relatively new trend.

The Olympic torch has reached the top of Mount Everest, the climax of a massive publicity campaign leading up the Olympic Games. China hopes the spectacle of the flame atop the world's highest mountain will erase the memory of ugly protests. But some activists say that by taking the flame up Everst, China is trying to show its dominance over Tibetans.

An annual Forbes analysis of the top 10 earners on YouTube consistently ranks kid-forward accounts among the highest paid.

A dentist from Alberta, Canada, paid $10,000 for a crown that once belonged to The King: Elvis Presley. That isn't the only dental collectible this dentist has paid top dollar for. He shelled out $31,000 for a rotten tooth that belonged to John Lennon.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation found two “unacceptable hazardous conditions” during an investigation of the Charlotte Area Transit System’s safety operations following a May 2022 derailment of a Lynx Blue Line vehicle.

The president and some of his top lieutenants stated and restated on Tuesday that they feared a new attack was imminent and that they were justified in hitting the Quds Force leader.

A Senate hearing on the coronavirus pandemic follows the day after the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 200,000 people. The session is underway now.

Jeanine Pirro, Tucker Carlson and others are being grilled under oath in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for spreading lies about a voting tech company's role in the 2020 elections.

The Florida senator needs a rebound in the state's GOP primary after a disappointing New Hampshire finish. And he's hoping the backing of the state's young, diverse leadership can help him do that.

Despite phenomenal growth and popularity with users, Uber's troubles are mounting. The ride hailing company has been rocked by a sexual harassment scandal, top executives have quit, and there are reports that CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanack may take a leave of absence. Employees and investors tell NPR that Uber faces a more challenging problem — its fractured relationship with drivers.

Jill Heinerth's memoir leads with her thoughts as she wonders if she will die underwater, setting the tone for an honest and engaging book about life as one of the world's top cave divers.

Iowa Democrats are releasing partial results from last night's caucuses, after technical problems caused massive delays and confusion.

Charles Kupperman, a former top official on National Security Council, failed to appear Monday for his deposition in the House impeachment inquiry. Kupperman's decision did not go over well.

Big banks are facing a new reality in Washington: Democrats control all levers of power and they are not shy about their intentions to ratchet up pressure on the sector.

While not a new concept, Garrett Neiman makes distinct contributions to the conversation; as a rich white man, he has insider's access to that population — and doesn't shy away from self-indictment.

President Biden is grappling with a challenge that he faced when he was vice president: how to address an influx of Central American migrants at the southwestern U.S. border.

Last week, the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain released a report examining its own handling of the Arab Spring uprisings that happened there earlier this year. More than 5,000 protesters were interviewed in the investigation, an unprecedented move in the region. Yet, opposition members say the government isn't going far enough in its efforts to reform. Melissa Block speaks with Bahraini government spokesman Abdulaziz bin Mubarek Khalifa, who responds to those accusations.