United Methodist delegates have repealed their church's longstanding ban on the celebrations of same-sex marriages or unions by its clergy.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 ...

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

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" ...

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 ...

What a new bridge over Baltimore's Patapsco River will look like is still very much a matter of speculation. But one design stands out.

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.

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

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 ...

Religion and sexuality are often pitted against one another...so where does that leave folks who seek attunement and education for both?

NEW YORK — Hope Hicks, a Trump-era White House adviser and communications director, testified in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial on Friday. Hicks' name had been brought up by several ...

Federal health officials say the U.S. has the building blocks to make a vaccine to protect humans from bird flu, if needed. But experts warn we're nowhere near prepared for another pandemic.

North Carolina is unveiling a roadside historical marker that officially acknowledges a notorious construction accident — the Cowee Tunnel disaster near Dillsboro, about 50 miles west of Asheville.