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Cannabis advocate and former Democratic congressional candidate Barbara Gaskins has filed civil rights complaints with N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson’s office and the U.S. Department of Justice over the state’s puzzling marijuana laws.

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has filed lawsuits against 14 manufacturers of a common fire suppressant containing PFAS used by firefighters.

Piedmont Lithium will begin mining next year, but not at its controversial proposed mine in northern Gaston County. Instead the company has lined up mines outside the country.

Affleck's company helps filmmakers build their own AI models that take care of time-intensive details.

72-year-old Sam Kaplan graduated from Georgia Gwinnett College this weekend with his 99-year-old mother in attendance.

The first civil trial seeking to hold a pharmaceutical company accountable for the opioid crisis has finished its first week in Oklahoma.

How has making cars for big auto companies changed, in pay, labor, everyday life and technology? We hear from a former autoworker and a current one.

The federal government is sending water from the Flaming Gorge reservoir upstream to prop up Lake Powell. But it comes at a cost.

The FDA approved a new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. Bemotrizinol has long been used in Europe and Asia. The chemical compound protects against UVA and UVB rays.

In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a week later, he was shot and killed there. The case remains unsolved.

Watch some of the year's greatest Tiny Desk performances, featuring a small sample of the talented artists who delivered intimate sets from their homes around the world.

Japanese American pop star Hikaru Utada has forged a boundary-breaking legacy merely being true to themself.

The producer and engineer helped create the Dirty South sound in the early '90s, and now, he says, "Me and Kanye are like a band."

In the ongoing scandal engulfing Wells Fargo, the bank says it fired wrongdoers. But some workers say they were trying to blow the whistle and Wells Fargo fired them.

Reporting in Nature Medicine, researchers write that a chemical in red meat, L-carnitine, may up the risk of heart disease in people and mice--but only in frequent red-meat eaters. Study author Stanley Hazen of the Cleveland Clinic explains how diet changes the gut's bacterial flora, and how that can affect heart health.

After Steve Jobs was diagnosed with cancer, he asked Walter Isaacson to write his biography. The new book tells the personal story of the man behind the personal computer — from his childhood in California to his thoughts on family, friends, death and religion.

How did the soda giant from America come to be seen as "local" in Africa? And what has the impact been on the continent for worse and for better?

Climate change has been a central focus in Joe Biden's first term. But fossil fuels have also flourished, and meeting the country's climate goals would require even bigger steps in a second term.

Wood from the Carolinas is increasingly being used overseas for energy. While the industry creates jobs, communities are also paying a price. WFAE's climate reporter David Boraks and WUNC's Celeste Gracia talk about their series "The Wood Energy Dilemma with Morning Edition host Marshall Terry.

Children who need growth hormone to achieve their full stature are having trouble getting the medicine. A shortage has stretched months longer than expected and could last the rest of the year.