President Joe Biden has met privately with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job in Charlotte, North Carolina.

From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.

Under a new federal rule, home health care providers in North Carolina will be required to put most of the money they receive from Medicaid toward workers’ wages.

This Monday, in Winston-Salem, a federal judge will hear arguments in one of the final legal challenges to photo ID ...

A haunting new video released in the early morning hours is the latest effort by the Army to lure soldiers to some of its ...

As the Wheels Roller Skating Rink in east Durham prepares to reopen this fall, skaters gathered for a party in Durham Central ...

The North Carolina Senate has approved legislation to set aside roughly $500 million more for now for programs that provide ...

Friends, colleagues and the wife of fallen Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Joshua Eyer are remembering him as a hard-charging outwardly stern cop who also peppered friends with "how's things" ...

United Methodist delegates have repealed their church's longstanding ban on the celebrations of same-sex marriages or unions by its clergy. The action marked the final major repeal of a half-century's ...

Larry Demeritte is the first Black trainer participating in the Kentucky Derby in 35 years. And while the betting-books have his colt West Saratoga running at long odds, Demeritte, who is battling ...

Hope Hicks was a communications director for the Trump White House and prosecutors may question her on her knowledge of the deals made during his first presidential run.

Mystery manifests on Pratt's albums as the texture of dreams. But Here in the Pitch, her best album, feels completely lucid. Her minimal songs voice uncanny grandeur. Each one seems to absorb cosmic ...