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Authorities are investigating what caused a freight train hauling crude oil to derail and explode into flames. The rail cars that ruptured were newer tankers designed to be more puncture resistant.

The state's House impeached Jason Ravnsborg over a 2020 fatal crash in which he initially told authorities he thought he had struck a deer or another large animal.

Monday, Nov. 12, 2018At least a dozen General Assembly seats flipped from Republican to Democrat in last week's election, ending the GOP's supermajority…

Tuesday, July 2, 2019The late 1960s introduced a new phrase into the political lexicon: the Southern Strategy. Republicans put it to use in the aftermath…

Monday, August, 3, 2020The world changed in a flash 75 years ago with the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II. That seismic event also…

Thursday, March 2, 2017After five years of work toward an ambitious goal to turn around nine west Charlotte schools, Project LIFT's superintendent joins…

Major technology companies like Facebook and Apple have long had a cozy relationship with Washington. But last month, the Department of Justice filed a major antitrust lawsuit against Google. What does this mean for the future of Big Tech?

This new series, based on Richard Russo's 1997 novel Straight Man, stars Odenkirk as a tenured English professor who struggles to navigate the tiny fiefdoms and giant egos of academia.

Some say the Cotham name — for both Tricia and her mother Pat — is now forever tainted among Democrats. “In the political world, a few months is a lifetime,” Pat Cotham said last week. “I take one day at a time.”

While there has been a growing furor over the noncompete clause in the state’s contract to build toll lanes on Interstate 77, the city of Charlotte has…

Updated 10:36 p.m.Mayor Jennifer Roberts conceded victory to Mayor Pro Tem Vi Lyles Tuesday in Charlotte's Democratic mayoral primary. With 98 percent of…

Noem faced questions from lawmakers about how she would handle domestic terrorism, but her remarks largely focused on immigration policy, especially along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Year started with KUOW: 2005

Mano Sundaresan is a producer at NPR.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to New York Times reporter Scott Dance about efforts to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency. President Trump's review panel failed to meet a deadline last week.

Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson reflects on what figure skater Adam Rippon means to him. Rippon is the first openly gay American athlete to qualify for the Winter Olympics.

NPR's A Martinez speaks to Peter Bergen, the vice president of Global Studies and Fellows at liberal think tank New America and a security analyst, about the U.S. vetting process for Afghan nationals.

As states across the country ban race-related curriculum in classrooms, NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Florida educator Marlon Williams-Clark about the first African American Studies AP program.

The Franklin bumblebee is so small and hard to track that it's not clear if it's gone extinct. We tag along as one man makes his annual trek to try to find it.