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Newton-Conover City Schools, a district about 40 miles northwest of Charlotte, is considering adopting a policy that would explicitly ban students from…

NPR Music is looking for the next great unknown artist to perform at the most famous desk in music.

MetLife says it's planning to break off its part of its U.S. life insurance business because of stiffer federal regulations regarding the amount of capital the company is expected to hold.

Justice wants to Congress to rethink release rules for well-behaved inmates.

http://66.225.205.104/KM2012072.mp3 Heath Morrison visited with CMS employees on first day of job. Photo: Kalie McMonagle. New CMS Superintendent Heath…

http://66.225.205.104/CT20120425.mp3Part One: Charlotte Symphony and Digital Animation The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra is adding a visual element to…

http://66.225.205.104/KM2012072.mp3 Heath Morrison visited with CMS employees on first day of job. Photo: Kalie McMonagle. New CMS Superintendent Heath…

There was a sharp drop in demand for durable goods last month. Meanwhile, it looks like the economy slowed more than thought in the spring. One bit of bright news: Claims for unemployment benefits declined last week.

New York says Broadway will be back by fall. But how realistic are these reopening goals?

The 18-year-old Portuguese rapper and songwriter dazzles in this collaboration between Tiny Desk and AFROPUNK.

Lee Ann Koehler plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

The type of song you play on speakers until they burst, "check1" pushes the needle forward for a genre that sometimes feels stuck in its own mythos.

Films from Mexico have been finding viewers in the United States and around the world. This year, directors of three films with Oscar buzz are Mexican: Children of Men, Pan's Labrynth and Babel.

Agraria, a new restaurant in the posh Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., is owned and operated by the North Dakota Farmers' Union. Every ingredient in every dish comes from American family farmers.

The coffee chain joins McDonald's in taking its brand out of the country. Starbucks had temporarily paused operations in March.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sits down with NPR's Michele Kelemen for an interview about Iran after meetings in Vienna with foreign ministers from other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany.

Computer entrepreneur Abdelhadi "Hadi" Abushahla faces plenty of challenges to doing business in the Gaza Strip. The roads are cluttered with slow-moving donkey carts, the phones often don't work and permission to enter Israel can be nearly impossible to get.

The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars cleaning up highly toxic plutonium waste in Hanford, Wash., where much of the fuel for the nation's nuclear weapons was produced. Over budget and behind schedule, the project has ground to a halt. Some worry the government will give up on cleaning up the site completely.

Student Gita Jackson, 13, talks about the type of music she enjoys as part of the ongoing "What Are You Listening To?" series. She says that she and her musical tastes disprove the stereotype of "the Britney Spears-loving, Forever 21-wearing, valley girl-speaking, smiley prepubescent white girl."

Sister Gertrude Morgan -- folk artist, preacher, nurse -- made a distinctive album of gospel music in 1970. Philadelphia DJ King Britt has created a tribute to the New Orleans musician.