1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (519+ words) RALEIGH " The former Pilot Mountain Town Manager was indicted by a Surry County grand jury last week following a special investigative audit by the North Carolina office of the State Auditor. Michael Boaz was charged with embezzlement by public officer....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (824+ words) CANNES, France " Sprawling action movies with aliens do not generally compete for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or. But Na Hong-jin's "Hope" is not your average science fiction. Few movies were more anticipated in Cannes. It's been 10 years since Na's…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (556+ words) NEW YORK " Layoffs have been piling up recently, especially in the tech world. And the words "artificial intelligence" are accompanying more and more notices about the cuts. That's unnerving workers across sectors, with many fearing what the rapid adoption of…...

19+ hour, 9+ min ago  (920+ words) RALEIGH " Nikolaj Ehlers created a personal highlight reel in Saturday's Game 2. It's one he, his teammates and Hurricanes fans will look back fondly on. Ehlers scored a show-stopping goal in the second period and then topped it with the overtime…...

4+ day, 10+ min ago  (772+ words) In the past week, many Americans remained focused on the economy, inflation and how those forces could impact their lives. Trips to the grocery store or gas station are more painful than they were last year, and that is impacting…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (215+ words) NEW YORK " Decades after the last "Godfather" movie and more than 10 years since the last "Godfather" novel, the story of the Corleone crime family has a new chapter, presented for the first time from a woman's point of view. "Connie…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (807+ words) The story plays out the same way virtually every time. Democrats, egged on by the increasingly powerful progressive base, push some obviously unconstitutional scheme that they contend is needed to preserve "democracy." The courts inevitably knock down the ploy. Frustrated,…...

4+ day, 16+ min ago  (511+ words) China would restore market access for U. S. beef and resume imports of poultry from U. S. states determined by the U. S. Department of Agriculture to be free of the bird flu, the White House said. The deals are on top of China's soybean purchase…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (547+ words) As President Donald Trump's job approval sinks to below 40% (depending on which poll you're looking at), betting markets and political conventional wisdom are that his Republican Party is not necessarily doomed to lose its narrow House majority, nor is it…...

4+ day, 35+ min ago  (545+ words) Next Era Energy is seeking to acquire Dominion Energy in an all-stock deal valued at about $67 billion, creating a massive power company as the energy needs of artificial intelligence drive demand higher in the U. S. It is one of the biggest…...