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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…

At a pretrial hearing Tuesday at Fort Meade, a military judge said some of the punishment given to Pvt. Bradley Manning while he was in solitary confinement was "more rigorous than necessary." He is accused of sending a mass of classified documents to the website WikiLeaks.

In a TV interview, Francois Hollande said companies that pay workers more than 1 million euros will see the tax on those salaries increase to 75 percent. The announcement comes as the Socialist leader battles plummeting approval ratings.

Health officials confirmed Friday that mosquitoes have infected locals and tourists on South Beach with Zika. Florida officials fear it will be a strike on Miami's tourism industry.

Researchers said they located a German U-boat that went "on the run" from British forces as the war ended. The discovery ends speculation that Adolf Hitler used it to escape to South America.

The bureau was faulted after the Russian attack on the 2016 election for keeping too much information from state and local authorities. It says it'll use a new policy going forward.

The New York group was best known for a series of crossover pop hits recorded with everyone from The Beach Boys to Chubby Checker. Fat Boys had faded from the spotlight by the 1990s, but a new reissue makes a case for the group as more than just a gimmick.

The retractable wooden stage will offer visitors a view of the ancient arena not seen since the 19th century, when archaeologists removed its floor to reveal the elaborate structures underneath.

All people aboard the Niagara Falls-bound bus were taken to hospitals for injuries ranging from minor to serious, state police said.

Bernie Speevack of Louisville, Ky., plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Sudan Archives draws inspiration from Irish and African traditional music. Watch her channel both in this Tiny Desk concert.

The global slowdown could create a historic drop in carbon emissions, but it's still not enough to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

The multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who co-founded the enormously influential German band Kraftwerk, died just a few days after his 73rd birthday.

http://66.225.205.104/JR20120424.mp3The Charlotte Knights' quest for a new stadium uptown is still far from a home run. The full Charlotte City Council…