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Tobacco giant Philip Morris International is pivoting away from cigarettes. Part of its reinvention plan is to stop selling cigarettes in the United Kingdom in the next 10 years.

Social media posts claimed up to eight people of color, possibly from the queer community, were missing; then, an email from a school principal accelerated those rumors. Now, the Wilmington Police Department and New Hanover County Schools district are trying to course correct.

Spain heads to the polls this weekend in what could be one of the most important elections in years. Spain is now run by a center-left government – but the rise of the far right has many worried.

David Gessner’s life is about the wild – and wildness. You may know him first as a nature writer from the books All The Wild That Remains or My Green…

Thursday morning, North Carolina state legislators, including Representative Ted Davis, Junior (R-New Hanover County) and Senator Bill Rabon (R-Brunswick…

At least hundreds of people have died and thousands are feared missing in eastern Libya after Storm Daniel swept in, destroying dams and unleashing a torrent of muddy water that carried homes away.

New Hanover County recently approved revisions to its special use permit. Duke Energy is working to close its coal ash pits at the Sutton Steam Plant site…

It’s the time of year when municipalities and counties are putting the finishing touches on their budgets for the next fiscal year. The North Carolina…

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Philip Gourevitch, a writer for The New Yorker, about the world's response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and the debate over what to call Russian atrocities in Ukraine.

Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.