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Even in Africa's most populous country, attitudes about family size oare starting to shift. The change in thinking is most striking in Nigeria's Muslim and conservative north.

Hungarian voters turned out in the greatest numbers since the 1990s to turn away from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing populist Fidesz party.

Pope Leo XIV's four-nation, 11-day trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II in his early years.

The Bollywood legend was one of the world's most recorded artists — who, by her own reckoning, made more than 12,000 songs.

From this week's Sunday Edition: A brutal stabbing. A young U.S. Marine killed. What happened, and why? What can we learn — and what can we do next?

From this week's Sunday Edition: News Editor Benjamin Schachtman posts a few updates and notes on a dust-up on the New Hanover County school board, the latest on the Nigel Max Edge case, Wilmington's unanimous vote against an affordable housing project, and the perennial debate over the Azela Belles.

A new report from the North Carolina State Auditor’s Office uncovered a “significant deficiency” in Cape Fear Community College’s internal financial controls. WECT investigated that report.

Ayesha Rascoe unpacks an analog bag — a tote filled with screen-free activities — curated by Weekend Edition staff.

As Tax Day approaches, Goldfish offers sneaky snacking parents a special "Snack Tax" refund.

Congress is back Monday with a big to-do list: DHS funding, renewal of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and 1.5 trillion dollars for the Department of Defense.