Students at Duke University remain shaken by the finding of a noose made of a thin yellow rope on campus last week. And it hit particularly hard given that it has been just two weeks since drunken white male students chanted a racist song that alluded to lynching at a black female student.
North Carolina's iconic homegrown NASCAR driver Richard Petty has a new honor to add to his list — Gov. Pat McCrory declared March 31 "Richard Petty Day."
Prada, one of the most beloved and recognizable luxury brands, experienced a huge hit in its 2014 profit — in part, apparently, because of a crackdown on Chinese government corruption.
The Guardian reported Monday that an Australian government employee accidentally emailed the personal information of multiple world leaders to the wrong recipient. That employee’s superiors then decided to just not mention to anyone that it happened.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, officially announced his candidacy for the 2016 presidential race at Liberty University last week — and he remains the only major candidate to have officially declared a run. Cruz was a big subject on social media and news organizations throughout last week, but not just for his announcement or his policies — but for what many believed was him rehearsing kissing his wife before the big announcement at the university last week.
This week's cover of The New Yorker, the foremost purveyor of 10,000-plus word articles about IKEA, features 30 emoji of Hillary Clinton. This comes shortly after The Washington Post created emoji for every team in this year's NCAA basketball tournament.
Last June, a user on the public records site, MuckRock, requested consumer complaints from the publicly funded train company, Amtrak. But after nine months of waiting, Conor Skelding received 317 pages of complaints so heavily redacted, they make declassified military documents seem transparent.
On Monday morning, outspoken and ultra-conservative Sen. Ted Cruz became the first major candidate to enter the presidential race for 2016. Cruz made his announcement during the student convocation at Liberty University — possibly the perfect backdrop for the Texas Republican.
North Carolina lawmakers don't seem to be happy about a memo released in February talking about sexual relations between lobbyists and government officials that received significant media attention. A month after the N.C. Ethics Committee ruled that sex between a lobbyist and an official is not considered a gift and doesn’t have to be disclosed, members of the N.C. House of Representatives have filed an opposing bill.
Ryanair, a discount airline popular for travels between European countries, denied plans on Thursday to offer transatlantic flights by 2020 — a reversal from just three days earlier.
While many high school seniors have already sent in deposits to their chosen colleges and are using their remaining days in high school classrooms dreaming about their upcoming college life, students who applied to University of California schools are still in limbo.
Barbara Mikulski — the longest serving female member in the history of Congress — announced on Monday that she will not be running for a sixth consecutive term. Mikulski is a Democratic senator from Maryland who has fought consistently for bipartisan compromise, for women's issues and for women lawmakers since she first gained the seat in 1988. She served in the House of Representatives for a dozen years before then.
Despite forecasts by experts predicting a revenue shortfall in North Carolina, N.C. House Republican Leader Paul Stam is insisting otherwise.
Unlike Lieutenant Gov. Dan Forest’s campaign signs, posted all around Charlotte in 2012, his new idea to create “I support teachers” specialty license plates has not been as popular.
Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina have been in the minority for the past four years — so when one Democrat from Charlotte apparently had the legislature to himself during Tuesday's snow, he got right to work. Jeff Jackson, D-Mecklenburg, documented his day at the General Assembly on his Facebook page, starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning, using the hashtag #JustOneLegislator.
Politico recently reported that there was a $21.8 billion shortfall in the federal budget caused by federal student loans. The total outstanding student debt in the U.S. is more than $1.2 trillion, and 40 million Americans are carrying that debt.
North Carolina posted public school report cards on Feb 5, revealing interesting information about charter schools and the public school systems in Orange County and Durham.
The growing export industry in North Carolina is beginning to replace the economic gap that was left when the textile industry collapsed and moved largely overseas. Joey Fink, a Ph.D candidate in history at UNC explained the long history of textiles in North Carolina, and the impact the industry had on the shaping of North Carolina history.