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Ukraine's advance into western Russia has slowed in recent days as Russian reinforcements begin to reach the region. The two sides appear headed for a showdown in the coming days.

John McEnroe, Billie Jean King and other tennis legends discuss their legacies in a new PBS documentary series.

James prosecuted the president and his companies, winning millions of dollars in fines linked to fraud allegations. Her attorney called the probe "an attack on the rule of law."

The University of Connecticut's women's basketball team is back in the Final Four thanks in part to Paige Bueckers. Bueckers has done a lot in her amazing career except win the NCAA title. She's ready.

Mecklenburg County officially loosened eligibility requirements for childcare subsidies Wednesday in order to help more families with children under age 12 deal with the cost of childcare.

A Senate committee has endorsed President Joe Biden’s nomination of Michael Regan to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, setting up a vote in the full Senate.

In a rural North Carolina town, photographer Madeline Gray paints an intimate portrait of a girl's basketball team.

Looking to eat healthier in the new year? Cutting down the amount of meat in your diet — even for just one day a week — is one way to start.

It isn't just the fairy tale stuff of Goldilocks, or the pauper gruel of Oliver Twist. Really, porridge can be a beautiful (sweet or savory) thing, especially during the cold slog of winter.

Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan won bronze, for both a first career Olympic medal. For Shiffrin, the world's top slalom skier, a 4th-place finish was her 7th consecutive Olympic race without a medal.

The House committee looking into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is already looking toward its next hearing, after an emotional day of testimony from police on Tuesday.

Robert talks with Mark Johnson-Williams, one of the designers of the Tickle Me Elmo toy. Johnson-Williams tells how the FBI investigated him for 6 months as one of the UNABOMBER suspects.

At least four of the Charlotte area's top banks have signed on to the Time To Vote initiative, pledging to give employees up to three hours of paid time off to vote in the election.

Joe Biden topped President Trump by nearly 7 million votes, and 74 votes in the Electoral College, but his victory really was stitched together with narrow margins in key states.

The tenor saxophonist, one of the top improvisers working today, leads a band at his alma mater.

Kashe Quest, 2, ranks in the top 2% of high IQs in the U.S. She knows how to read, speak Spanish, English and sign. She can name every U.S. state, and pick out elements on the periodic table.

Comedienne and superstar ROSEANNE ARNOLD. Her show "Roseanne" debuted in 1988 and has consistently been a top TV series. She has often made news--she forced out the show's executive producer in a dramatic confrontation, she went public with accusations of incest, she performed a controversial rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" at a baseball game. In 1989, she published her first book, "Roseanne: My Life as a Woman" which became a best seller. Now she has written "My Lives" (Ballantine Books). In this latest memoir, ROSEANNE discourses on her life since "Roseanne" became a hit. She also writes about her past, her troubles with drugs, with her body image and with the press.

2: Cuban-born saxophonist and composer, PAQUITO D'RIVERA. D'RIVERA defected to the United States in 1980 during a concert tour. Like his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie, D'RIVERA is a tireless performer and purveyor of Latin jazz. His "REUNION" album (Messidor), recorded with trumpeter Arturo Sandoval was called a "high speed tour of the Pan-American musical map." For his newest record D'RIVERA gathered 23 of the top Cuban musicians from around the world: "Pasquito D'Rivera Presents 40 Years of Cuban Jam Session"

Television executive GRANT TINKER has written a memoir about his life in TV. "Tinker in Television: From General Sarnoff to General Electric" (Simon & Schuster). TINKER was co-founder of the production company MTM Enterprises with his then wife Mary Tyler Moore. He left MTM at the peak of its sucsess to become the chairman of NBC, and made it the top-rated network, with shows like "Cheers," "The COsby Show," and "St. Elsewhere."

NPR's Joe Palca reports that physicists have found evidence challenging the assumption that fundamental particles called "top quarks" can't be divided into yet smaller structures. Researchers at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., were surprised to find indications that quarks have internal structures. If this turns out to be true, it would contradict the Standard Model that physicists have long used to explain the basic structure of all matter. 17. MAYBE VOOM -- A reading from "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" by Dr. Seuss. The cat, you'll remember, comes back to reveal another cat under his hat, who has another cat under his hat, who has another cat, and so-on. The cats get smaller until there's only VOOM left.