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Every Thursday, tune into All Things Considered on WFAE 90.7 FM for our latest "Weekend in Entertainment" segment featuring voices from Charlotte’s media scene bringing you the latest music, cultural and social events.

00000174-fa0c-de55-a17c-fe2d1a720003In politics, there are a lot of accusations, claims and misinformation dressed up as fact. Politifact has made a name for assessing these on the national level — and assigning them labels like true, half-true and pants on fire. A group of reporters is doing the same for North Carolina politics. It’s a collaboration between Politifact, Duke University’s Reporters’ Lab and the Raleigh News and Observer.News and Observer reporter Paul Specht will be joining WFAE’s Morning Edition every Wednesday to FactCheck North Carolina news. If you have any claims you want the PolitiFact team to check out, you can email them at factcheck@newsobserver.com.

00000174-fa0c-de55-a17c-fe2d1ad10000President Donald Trump is running for reelection in 2020 as the Republican nominee, and former Vice President Joe Biden is his Democratic challenger. The general election is Nov. 3, but many people are voting early or via absentee-by-mail ballots because of the coronavirus pandemic.

00000174-fa0c-de55-a17c-fe2d1c290000 On April 30, 2019, a shooting on the campus of the University of North Carolina Charlotte left two people dead and four injured. On the last day of classes a former UNCC student entered a classroom and began shooting. Ellis Parlier and Riley Howell were killed. Drew Pescaro, Sean DeHart, Rami Al-Ramadhan and Emily Houpt were injured. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police have charged Trystan Terrell in the attack.

00000174-fa0c-de55-a17c-fe2d1c9f0000The end of the school year always brings some uncertainty for public schools in North Carolina as they await their school letter grades.Every year, they anxiously await the assessment as lawmakers in Raleigh grapple with the grading system, which has never quite worked as planned.In this three-part series, "Making the Grade," WFAE correspondent Ann Doss Helms examines the challenges of the grading system used for North Carolina's public schools.