10/30 – |
Women likely to have to register for draft soon |
10/30 – |
Last UK Guantanamo Bay detainee released after 13 years without trial |
10/30 – |
Trigger warnings promote culture of privilege |
10/30 – |
Jeb Bush says psych majors end up working at Chik-Fil-A |
10/29 – |
Anonymous vows to reveal identities of KKK members |
10/29 – |
Cuts to food assistance and health services leading to rise in Victorian-era diseases in England |
10/29 – |
McCrory signs bill outlawing sanctuary cities in NC |
10/29 – |
Ben Carson says he'll turn Department of Education into an investigator of professorial political bias |
10/28 – |
Students revive extinct squash with 800-year-old seeds |
10/28 – |
New UNC system president has homophobic statements in past record, according to Slate |
10/28 – |
Hobby Lobby owners under investigation for importation of artifacts from Iraq |
10/28 – |
Medical marijuana activist arrested in Asheville |
10/27 – |
Morocco to launch solar-energy superproject |
10/27 – |
Russia proposes superhighway that would enable driving from NYC to London |
10/27 – |
Fennebresque steps down as chair of UNC Board of Governors |
10/26 – |
Why the Left doesn't talk about rural American poverty |
10/26 – |
Concealed carry makes life more dangerous |
10/26 – |
Bacon, ham and sausage equal to smoking as cause of cancer, WHO says |
10/25 – |
Self-driving cars must be programmed to resolve complex ethical dilemmas -- including killing humans |
10/25 – |
Sales of paper books up as readers abandon e-books |
10/25 – |
The real reason college costs more today is increase in number of administrative positions |
10/25 – |
Adjunct professors teaching five courses earn less than pet-sitters |
10/24 – |
Coal country eyes pending federal regulations |
10/24 – |
Photo retrospective: How the Other Half Lived in the Last Gilded Age |
10/23 – |
Two thousand dead mice full of painkillers deployed via parachutes in effort to eradicate invasive brown tree snakes on Guam |
10/23 – |
Man who founded now defunct Museum of Menstruation wages one-man battle against stigmas |
10/23 – |
FCC sets stricter rules for costs of prison phone calls |
10/22 – |
Appalachian State University and faculty plan walkout to protest school's priorities |
10/22 – |
Temporary remedy to bus stop near airport changes due to concerns over safety and convenience |
10/22 – |
South African students protest increase in college tuition, turn ire toward parliament |
10/21 – |
Advocates convene at human rights court to discuss sexual abuse of girls in Paraguay after news of 11-year-old rape victim forced to give birth |
10/21 – |
Genealogy research through DNA can leave customers open to law enforcement inquiries |
10/21 – |
Garner police raise funds to repair mural defaced with anti-police graffiti |
10/20 – |
Decline in oil prices affects budgets and ambitions of some U.S. colleges |
10/20 – |
U.S. porn icon and staunch conservative Jenna Jameson takes to Twitter about Israel, plans conversion to Judaism |
10/20 – |
Dollarydos: Australians petition to change their currency's name to this |
10/19 – |
Inside corporate America's plan to ditch worker's comp |
10/19 – |
USFS sued over Nestle water pumping from San Bernadino national forest |
10/19 – |
Legislature's refusal to expand Medicaid will cost NC billions |
10/18 – |
Glass-Steagall one of factors in 2008 financial crisis |
10/18 – |
Jefferson-era chemistry lab discovered at UVA campus |
10/18 – |
'Church of the Sword' fights for legal recognition as a religion |
10/17 – |
The 'Southern strategy' is coming undone |
10/17 – |
Some Virginia drivers refusing to return Confederate-flag license plates |
10/17 – |
Joseph's Tomb: Palestinian rioters set fire to Jewish holy site, officials say |
10/17 – |
NYPD now has 'x-ray vans' to see inside houses, cars |
10/16 – |
Sensors may soon give prosthetics a sense of touch |
10/16 – |
Environment North Carolina says Duke Energy leading opponent of solar power |
10/16 – |
Top choice for UNC president job calls for chair of UNC Board of Governors to resign |
10/15 – |
NC lawmakers pass ban on anti-fracking ordinances |
10/15 – |
Anti-free-speech movement gains traction at UCLA |
10/15 – |
Strange star has serious scientists talking about 'alien megastructure' |
10/14 – |
The moral case against the TPP |
10/14 – |
Cat parasite linked to development of mental illness in owners |
10/14 – |
The case for more fuel-efficient cars is still strong |
10/13 – |
NASA reveals plan for settlements on Mars |
10/13 – |
Brother Wolf asking for donations to help animals saved from SC floods |
10/13 – |
First international dark-sky park dedicated in WNC |
10/12 – |
EU climate boss says emissions cuts insufficient |
10/12 – |
Massive El Nino now 'too big to fail' |
10/12 – |
US deportees have been murdered shortly after return to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras |
10/11 – |
Native Hawaiians protesting construction of telescope on sacred land receive a favorable circuit court ruling |
10/11 – |
One year after popularity of podcast Serial peaked, web interest still active |
10/11 – |
Canada's e-cigarette and cannabis oil use dilemma |
10/09 – |
CA commission approves orca whale tank expansion on condition of banning captive breeding |
10/09 – |
Atlanta radio host suspended for calling female ESPN analyst 'Tits McGhee' |
10/09 – |
City of Charlotte settles with police officer acquitted in voluntary manslaughter trial; he resigns |
10/08 – |
Are there lessons to learn from SC flooding and connection to climate change? |
10/08 – |
Former executioner for Virginia's Dept. of Corrections confronts moral dilemma now |
10/08 – |
Ohio residents sue DuPont for health problems related to contaminants in Ohio River |
10/07 – |
Student's poster for lost helmet sparks worldwide Twitter response |
10/07 – |
Liza Minnelli uses Uber to make gig in Wilmington |
10/07 – |
Indigenous groups in Amazon form militias to stop illegal logging |
10/06 – |
Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe in SD set to open first tribal marijuana lounge |
10/06 – |
Sec of Interior says government agency has large backlog of inspections of high-risk oil and gas wells |
10/06 – |
Partner of Sally Ride pens children's book about her life |
10/05 – |
Photographer tackles the misrepresentation of Appalachia's coal country |
10/05 – |
Texas mother complains that ninth-grade geography textbook identifies slaves as 'workers' |
10/05 – |
Church and Raleigh News & Observer broken into and vandalized |
10/04 – |
GOP-controlled NC legislature makes last-minute attempt at limiting ability of municipalities to raise minimum wage, etc. |
10/04 – |
NC teacher exodus continues |
10/04 – |
Alabama, where ID is required to vote, closes DMVs in most predominantly-Black counties |
10/04 – |
The real, and racist, origins of the Second Amendment |
10/03 – |
Colin Powell jokes he stays in the Republican Party 'because it annoys them' |
10/03 – |
Search continues for source of huge plume of pollution that blanketed South Texas last year |
10/03 – |
South Park takes on Whole Foods and gentrification |
10/01 – |
How the progressive left has turned against Israel |
10/01 – |
NC GOP-controlled General Assembly seeks to scale back protection against discriminatory housing, employment |
10/01 – |
Duke Energy settles past, present and future groundwater issues from coal ash for $7 million |
10/01 – |
Hog farmers staging rally in Raleigh to protest waterkeepers' ads |