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Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

After the hurricane in Jamaica, the government had a pot of money to help rebuild. A Catastrophe Bonds payout. We explain how it works and why Cat Bond popularity is on the rise as a response to climate change.

The Trump administration claims 2 million non-citizens departed the U.S. this year, mostly "voluntarily." We examine its pressure tactics, including ICE raids and arrests at green card appointments.

Earlier this month, developers walked away from a proposed grocery store on city-owned property in the heart of Wilmington. WHQR’s Ben Schachtman and Kelly Kenoyer have more on what comes next — and what it might mean for another proposed grocery store, the Northside Food Co-Op.

The 33-year-old Honduran man accused of stabbing a fellow light rail passenger on the Lynx Blue Line last week is now facing federal charges.

South Piedmont Community College is the latest community college to formalize its participation in Wolfpack Connect, a new program that offers guaranteed admissions to NC State University for community college students.

Volunteers donate their time in communities across our region, whether at a homeless shelter, a food bank, or an after-school program. Charlotte resident Connie Oliphant, 86, was one of those people. According to an American Red Cross Survey, just over half of Americans lack basic swimming skills, and over the past four years, the retired teacher worked to help change that. A few weeks before she unexpectedly died last weekend, Oliphant shared insight about her coaching methods that gives adults life-saving skills and confidence in the water.

After more than a year in hiding, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado surfaces in Oslo, as the U.S. seizes an oil tanker near Venezuela.

On this week's episode of Sources & Methods, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to correspondents Greg Myre and Eleanor Beardsley about the future of the U.S. alliance with Europe under President Trump.

New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.