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In a news conference recently, state Sen. Paul Newton said that changes made to North Carolina's tax code in 2013 moved the state into the top 10 in the country from near the bottom when it comes to pro-business policy rankings. Was he right?

The federal debt continues to grow, topping $39 trillion this month. Like a shopper who buys more than he earns every week, the nation's credit card bill is compounding. Just paying the interest now costs more than every other government program except Social Security.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, about the Trump administration's military operation in Venezuela.

Some Oath Keepers go on trial for seditious conspiracy. Moscow confronts protests over its call-up of military reservists. Iran's foreign minister responds to the suppression of peaceful protests.

The death this week of J. Geils Band co-founder and guitarist Jay Geils prompts a look back at the strange, between-worlds year of music in which the group cemented its legacy.

The NATO summit in Washington kicked off Tuesday morning. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly sat down with the top diplomats from eight Nordic and Baltic nations for a discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council.

Ibrahim Songne's pizza place triumphed over local anti-immigrant sentiments — and now has earned a spot on a worldwide top 50 pizza list! To think — he didn't even like pizza when he first tried it.

International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi said Iran's nuclear program is heavily damaged, "but the material will still be there and the enrichment capacities will be there."

"As time went by, the cars got buried," said a driver. "I was really scared." Japan's Self-Defense Forces distributed food, blankets and fuel to the stranded, and worked with shovels to free vehicles.

After letting its guard down this summer, Europe is dealing with a massive second wave of the coronavirus that doctors say will most likely be more deadly than the first.

It's one thing to admire and study the music of the bebop era. But Harris, a octogenarian pianist with a supple touch, lived it, and exudes that feeling in each of his performances.

The Ethiopian leader received the award for his efforts to bring an end to 20 years of war with neighboring Eritrea.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles wrote on Twitter Friday that the chant of "Send her Back" at a Trump rally in Greenville "was devastating to many of us, myself…

North Carolina’s top charter official warned schools Thursday that they could lose their charters, which authorize them to get public money, if they…

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The "Giving What We Can" campaign urges members to donate 10 percent of their incomes to effective charities. Over many years, the group's calculators suggest, such giving could improve far more lives than you might imagine.

RALEIGH A day after speaking to a top Carolina Panthers official, the main sponsor of a bill to help finance improvements to the team’s stadium said…

North Carolina is already facing the kind of national attention that has become the new norm in presidential campaigns, but next year’s mid-term election…

On Tuesday night, Sotheby's brought in its highest total yet for a single auction: more than $422 million dollars. The record total owed a lot to the sale of two works — a Giacometti sculpture that went for $101 million and Van Gogh's "Still Life with Daisies and Poppies" fetched $61.8 million.

If you watch ESPN, you’re surely familiar with Stuart Scott. You don’t forget his style. Here he is giving highlights from a 1998 game between North…