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Charlotte's unemployment rate dropped in 2021, and North Carolina's landed some big employers over the course of the year. A Wells Fargo economist says those are all reasons to be bullish about the region's economy heading into 2022.

Tensions flared again Monday night in Union County as Union County Public School teachers continue to call on local leaders to make good on a $2,000 raise that was proposed earlier this year.

Steven Levy, senior writer for Wired, has written an article called "How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet." He tells Audie Cornish about what he learned from security personnel at many of the top tech companies. They claim that they were surprised to learn of the National Security Agency's data gathering.

A corruption investigation in Turkey has already forced three cabinet ministers to resign. Turkish media reports say the scandal reaches to the top of the government of Prime Minister Erdogan. He's denies wrongdoing, accusing his opponents and foreign governments of conspiring to bring him down.

Thirty-seven teams competed for the top spot at the eighth annual dragon boat festival in Cornelius on Saturday. The teams consisted of up to 20 people…

The U.S. is one of the world's largest economies, but it lags when it comes to happiness: the World Happiness Report ranks America number 19.

Acclaimed authors — including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon — have begun penning comic books, to great acclaim. Coates' first issue of Black Panther is the year's top-selling comic so far.

Forbes Magazine just released its rankings of the best universities in the U.S. They're based on graduation rates, student satisfaction, post-graduate debt and success.

This #NowPlaying discovery of Semler comes to us from this year's Tiny Desk Contest.

Paige Olsen calls the ears on her coonhound "extravagantly long." Each ear measures more than 13 inches. Her coonhound tops the Guinness World Record list for longest ears on any living dog.

A session guitarist in the Los Angeles area, Mike Post was 20 years old when he played on Sonny & Cher's "I Got You, Babe." In 1967, Post produced and arranged a top 10 hit for Kenny Rogers & the First Edition: "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)." Post's TV career began at 24, when he was made the Music Director for the "Andy Williams Show." He has since composed theme music for shows including The Rockford Files (his theme won a Grammy), Magnum P.I., Hill Street Blues and most recently, NYPD Blue.

NPR Music's resident viking shares his favorite albums and songs of 2021.

NPR Music's senior manager shares her favorite albums and songs of 2021.

In 2010, New York gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMillian honed in on a singlular campaign message.

Funny Ha Ha, the first film by 29-year-old director Andrew Bujalski, made a lot of critics top 10 lists in 2004 -- quite a feat for a film made with a minimal crew, a loose script, and the director's friends. Bujalski’s new film, Mutual Appreciation, features Justin Rice, lead singer for the indie pop band Bishop Allen. Now playing in New York and Los Angeles, it will open in more cities this fall.

Saxophonist Euge Groove earned his chops as a member of Tower of Power and sideman for Huey Lewis, Tina Turner and Elton John. He's back with a new solo CD of smooth tunes that are equal parts jazz, pop and R&B. Hear full-length cuts from the CD.

Ruffin Poole, a former top aide to ex-Gov. Mike Easley, was to report to prison in Pensacola, Fla., on Tuesday, but he got another day of freedom thanks…

http://66.225.205.104/LM20100908.mp3A restaurant in Hickory has been voted Best German Restaurant in America. The Old German Schnitzel Haus offers, as you…

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem that behind last month's eruption of violence over an obscure archaeological tunnel lies the bigger issue troubling the city's future: the challenge to the status quo whereby each religion respects and honors the holy places of their rival religions. That Palestinians are sensitive to each and every change in the makeup of Old Jerusalem can be explained by the fact that militant Zionists are insisting on encroaching and praying in the Muslim's holy sanctuary of Haram al Sahrif, on top of the Temple Mount.

The first single from a new collaboration between songwriters Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee and Jess Williamson is a stunner of a breakup song, best played singing along at top volume.