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Every weekday for over three decades, NPR's Morning Edition has taken listeners around the country and the world with two hours of multi-faceted stories and commentaries that inform, challenge and occasionally amuse. Throughout the program, Marshall Terry and the WFAE News team keep you up to date on news from the Charlotte area and across the Carolinas. At 6:50am and 8:50am, listeners will also hear the Marketplace Morning Report.
Morning Edition also includes Asian View from NHK in Tokyo at 5:42am, and BBC Topline at 6:42am.
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Saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins talks about the impact that winning a 2026 MacArthur Fellowship will have on his art.
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How NPR's team covering AI covers their increasingly important and fast moving beat.
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A reenactment of the Battle of Hastings, which took place almost a millennium ago, is drawing crowds of enthusiasts in the UK.
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Much of the Trump administration's economic policy has been inspired by successful industrial policies successful in East Asia, including those of competitor, China. Will those policies work in the U.S.?
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NPR's Joel Rose speaks with culture writer Louis Staples about his piece for Harper's Bazaar titled: Women Everywhere Are Talking About Cornell. Why Aren't Men?
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Tech workers gathered in San Francisco this week to talk about the opportunities they see for their industry, their mixed feelings about AI, and the high cost of living in the Bay Area.
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Isaias has become a tropical storm, moving towards the Tennessee Valley. Residents in the Florida Panhandle react to the destruction.
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Parts of the capital city of India, the world's largest democracy, are on lockdown. Protests over sweeping revisions to the voter rolls were met with a massive police crackdown.
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The center's executive director has named an agent who has worked with ZZ Top and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee as the head of programming for the arts institution. -
South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her lifelong defense of human rights and international law.
