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This week, New Hanover County commissioners voted along party lines to appoint former Republican commissioners Pat Kusek and Woody White to the Endowment — effectively removing the county’s only appointee of color, and triggering ‘concern’ from the Attorney General’s office over the Endowment’s lack of diversity. But Republicans say it’s not about race or politics — and point to issues with the direction and accountability of the Endowment, concerns echoed by the county manager.

More than 130 million metric tons of single-use plastics were thrown out in 2019, according to a new report that puts Exxon Mobil atop a list of the companies that produce it.

The Commissioner of the National Hockey League tackles the league's efforts to increase diversity, hockey's culture of fighting and potential links between the game and the brain disease CTE.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Dan Restrepo of the Center for American Progress about rising political tensions between the U.S. and Mexico over the opioid crisis.

Raised in lily-white Cape Cod, Mass. while one of the few persons of color around, Esperanza found their voice the old-fashioned way: by searching for it.

Making a new life after being locked up presents a dizzying labyrinth of challenges. The Pathway Home program is a $3.9 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Labor that fully funds work by Cape Fear Community College and LINC to help people who are reentering society after being incarcerated.

Americans spend an estimated $100 billion each year on lottery tickets. It's a tradition that dates back to the nation's earliest settlers, and was even one the Founding Fathers took part in.

In the Himalayan foothills, water is getting harder to come by. Villagers in one region of northern India are learning how to recharge the groundwater-fed springs they depend on.

These are the first charges to emerge from a death authorities initially blamed on a car crash. Long suppressed body-camera video showed white officers beating, stunning and dragging Ronald Greene.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth about why the Army is struggling to recruit.