The Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Trump administration’s push to end legal protections for people fleeing war and natural disaster from countries around the world, including Haiti and ...

Major League Baseball's experiment of a robot umpire technology system allowing challenges to checked swing calls is moving ...

Researchers say the discovery of the oldest known recordings of whale sounds could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate. The recording captured the song of a humpback whale, ...

The Kennedy Center's board of directors voted on Monday to shut down operations for two years following this summer's July 4 celebrations. The widely expected decision comes in the wake of numerous ...

A tanker crash on Interstate 42 (US 70) near Clayton claimed at least one life in Johnston County on Monday. The fatal crash closed all eastbound lanes of I-42, just east of Ranch Road, after the ...

Monday is a WRAL Weather Alert Day. A tornado watch is in effect for most of eastern North Carolina until 8 p.m.

Durham police have identified two men who were killed in a shooting on Friday night. Tevin Burney and Jarrett Godfrey, both of Durham, died in the shooting. Police did not release any update on a ...

A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building was sentenced ...

Both the WNBA and players' union feel progress is being made toward a new collective bargaining agreement, but they both say there's still work to be done to get a deal to the finish line.

South Africa's president has authorized a yearlong deployment by the army to fight crime in some of the country's violence-stricken areas.

UConn looks like the safest pick to win the women’s NCAA tournament, but the real key in bracket pools is nailing early upsets. Brackets start to match by the second weekend, since lower seeds rarely ...

There was a time when the NCAA men’s tournament was wildly unpredictable. Hard as it may seem to believe, there was one season where a No. 4 seed, two No. 5 seeds and a No. 9 seed all reached the ...