Banned Books Week starts with mixed messages as reports show challenges both up and down
Two reports released Monday provide a mixed but compelling outlook on the wave of book removals and challenges as the annual Banned Books Week begins for schools, stores and ...
Man shot on Bertie Drive in Southeast Raleigh, police say
Officers located one male with a gunshot wound around 3:20 a.m. on the 200 block of Bertie Drive in southeast Raleigh, police say.
Man shot near apartment complex in Southeast Raleigh, police say
Officers responded to a call around 1:45 a.m. that someone was on the block of White Sock Lane in Raleigh near an apartment complex.
Harris raises $27 million in New York fundraiser, promises economic speech this week
Vice President Kamala Harris raised $27 million at a packed New York City fundraiser on Sunday, her largest fundraising haul since she took over at the top of the ticket from ...
Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president
Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday after an election that saw voters reject an old guard accused of leading the ...
Alaska Airlines grounds flights at Seattle briefly due to tech outage
Alaska Airlines said it grounded its flights in Seattle briefly on Sunday night due to “significant disruptions” from an unspecified technology problem that was resolved by about 10 ...
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel’s air force launches dozens of airstrikes on southern Lebanon
Israel’s air force carried out dozens of airstrikes early Monday on southern Lebanon, as the Israeli military called on people in the area to immediately evacuate homes and other buildings ...
Death toll after explosion at eastern Iran coal mine rises to at least 38 with 14 still missing
Rescuers on Monday recovered the bodies of more workers killed in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, bringing the death toll in the disaster to at least 38, officials ...
Israel calls on Lebanese to leave homes where Hezbollah stores arms as warplanes launch new strikes
The Israeli military has called on people in Lebanon to immediately evacuate homes and other buildings where the Hezbollah militant group stores weapons. The two sides exchanged ...
Pakistani Taliban deny attacking convoy of foreign ambassadors in restive northwest
The Pakistani Taliban on Monday denied involvement in a bombing attack on a police convoy that was escorting foreign ambassadors in the country’s restive northwest, as ...
Harris owns a gun? Trump wants to cap credit card rates? Party lines blur in campaign’s last stretch
One presidential candidate is talking up gun ownership and promising tough border security measures. The other vows to cap credit card interest rates and force insurance companies ...
Families from Tennessee to California seek humanitarian parole for adopted children in Haiti
At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful ...