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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Seth Goldstein, a program manager for Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, about the $200,000 prize offered to anyone able to demonstrate accurate forecasting of a geopolitical event via crowdsourcing.

President Maduro's critics say the court's decision is a political maneuver to rig the election in his favor. Meanwhile, opposition leaders are scrambling to come up with a new plan.

The Continental, a bar in New York's East Village has a ban against customers using the word "literally," or what it says is "the most overused, annoying word in the English language and we will not tolerate it."

Updated 6:35 p.m. North Carolina environmental regulators have issued a key water permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. It's one of the last permits...

Duke Energy has settled a class-action lawsuit filed by homeowners who live near the company’s coal ash sites, and the suit has been dismissed.

Tensions on the UNC Board of Governors remain high, a month after the board's chairman wrote an op-ed calling for the board to be united. In the...

North Carolina's Supreme Court on Friday declared unconstitutional a law forcing the governor to pick state elections board members from names the...

Plus, students getting their money back in bankruptcy and more in the weekly education roundup.

The capital region has produced two of the U.S. Olympic team's eight speedskaters. Nearly a third of the short track speedskaters who qualified for Olympic trials this year came from D.C.-area clubs.

Diphtheria is not seen in the West because almost everyone is vaccinated against it. But it's been infecting thousands of the refugees in Bangladesh.