Search results for

The humorist and writer paid a visit to UNCW this week. WHQR's Nikolai Mather called him up for a wide-ranging conversation on growing up in the South and traveling the world.

At Tuesday’s New Hanover County school board meeting, Republican board members Josie Barnhart and Pat Bradford led the charge to have their colleagues consider codifying new rules around parent and student book challenges. That would include school-level requests for book limitations or removals going to a districtwide review, redacting the names of parents who ask for school or district limitations or removals of books, and instituting a book rating system similar to MPAA ratings.

The argument took place in light of the court's 2022 Bruen decision, which held that for a gun law to be constitutional, it must be analogous to a similar law at the nation's founding in the late 1700s.

There are no dragons, no maps and no internecine family trees in this Game of Thrones prequel about an underdog knight and his would-be squire.

Constanze Stelzenmüller of the Brookings Institution analyses the difficult line European leaders as they calculate their responses to the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran.

More than a thousand people recently gathered on frozen Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisc., for a celebration of winter. But a changing climate is affecting life above the ice.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is a divisive figure on the world stage and at home. But the farther you drive outside of the city, the more support you find for him.

The state launched the $175 million program last year as a way to help people who have remained cut off from public roadways since Hurricane Helene.

The New Hanover County school board voted to send a resolution to the state legislature asking it to pass a budget and approved a new advisory committee to work on employee bonuses and retention efforts. The audience was sharply divided on a Biblical program, LifeWise, that would operate off-campus during the school day. Even more contentious, though, was an intense disagreement between board members Pat Bradford and David Perry, who posted some harsh words online after the meeting.

Perkins, who died in 1998, wrote "Blue Suede Shoes," the hit song sung by Elvis Presley, which became the first Sun label record to sell over a million copies. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1996.