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Arthur Ashe: From Skinny Kid To Champion And Freedom Fighter

Arthur Ashe is known best as a tennis champion who achieved many firsts, including becoming the first and only African-American man to win a singles title…

The word "Due" read from top-down and "South" left-right, with the U shared between them. Reminiscent of a compass.

Due South visits 'My Black Country' with Alice Randall, Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer

2024 has ushered in a renaissance for Black country musicians in an industry that has historically overlooked them. Co-host Leoneda Inge chats with writer Alice Randall and musicians Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer.

Unemployment Drops To 6.3 Percent, Lowest In 5 Years

U.S. employers added far more jobs than expected — 288,000 — in April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. In a separate survey, the unemployment rate dipped by 0.4 percentage points.

Pakistan's Musharraf to Seek New Term in Oct. 6 Vote

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will seek a new five-year term in elections scheduled for Oct. 6, brushing aside opposition objections and concerns about his waning popularity. Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup, has signaled his intension to resign his post as army chief if re-elected.

Senior adviser to the President Jared Kushner used private email and a messaging app to conduct official business, the House oversight committee says. Kushner's lawyer has pushed back on some of the committee's assertions.

Kushner Used Private Email To Conduct Official Business, House Committee Says

Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is investigating alleged violations of federal records laws. Jared Kushner's lawyer disputes some of Cummings' assertions about what he told the committee.

Andreas Mundt, president of Germany's Federal Cartel Office, says "Facebook obtains very detailed profiles of its users and knows what they are doing online" by merging data from a number of sources. Mundt announced the antitrust watchdog's findings in Bonn, Germany, on Thursday.

Facebook Can't Gather Users' Data From Other Websites, German Antitrust Office Says

Facebook "was able to build a unique database for each individual user and thus to gain market power," says Andreas Mundt of Germany's Federal Cartel Office.

A photo taken last month by Nairobi resident Osman Siddiqi shows One Africa Place, a bullet-shaped glass high-rise in Nairobi, framed by the jagged, snowcapped peaks of Mount Kenya, which many residents said they have never seen from the capital city.

From Nairobi, A Rare, Clear Glimpse Of Mount Kenya Drives Disbelief On Social Media

A photo on social media showing Africa's second-highest mountain from Nairobi made many Kenyans cry foul. But the photo — shot on a day free of pollution, because of COVID-19 restrictions — is real.

Dominick Gucciardo walks to his home in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Pensacola, N.C.

The search for the missing hits snags at every corner as Helene's death toll tops 200

Searchers are combing the remote mountains of North Carolina to locate the missing and those needing supplies nearly a week after Hurricane Helene barreled through the Southeast. The death toll has surpassed 200 and could rise higher still.

The exterior of the Washington, D.C., jail where a group of defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are detained. The atmosphere has grown tense as they await their trials.

In a D.C. jail, Jan. 6 defendants awaiting trial are forming bitter factions

Allegations of bullying and intimidation as well as complaints about the distribution of more than a million dollars in donated funds have led to bitter conflict among Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants.

Mad Men Mondays: The Hartman Center Tackles Episode 6

Starting today, WUNC will begin publishing the latest "Mad Men Monday" column written by the Hartman Center. A part of Duke University's Rubenstein…

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