News & Observer readers comment on Jimmy Carter, an UNC Israeli-Palestinian conflict class, Joe Biden, Jefferson Griffin’s ...

Apalachicola photojournalist Richard Bickel recently completed his 15th trip to Cuba on the heels of natural disaster and a ...

Observer readers comment on death sentences in NC, Jimmy Carter, an Israeli-Palestinian conflict class at UNC and Jefferson ...

Texas wildlife officials are on the lookout for a flesh-devouring fly larvae known as the “Man-eater” after cases of the ...

In the new year, the Spurlock Museum will host “Caribbean Indigenous Resistance/Resistencia indígena del Caribe ¡Taíno Vive!” ...

David Lauderdale writes that Jimmy Carter touched a lot of lives, but none quite like South Carolina’s own Jimmy Baker of ...

The whip rarely touched the cow; usually, it just gave the animal a little encouragement. Legend says the crack of the whip is the source of the nickname "cracker," although many old-time Floridians ...

After losing out on Japanese superstar Roki Sasaki, the Chicago White Sox get a great consolation prize with signing this ...

Jimmy Carter's brand of public altruism still exists, but is endangered in a nation governed less by a desire for common good ...

Ebola is a deadly hemorrhagic disease caused by a virus that is endemic in parts of East-Central and West Africa. Most people are aware that a primary route for person-to-person transmission is ...

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly and Federal Reserve Board Governor Adriana Kugler speak as they attend the American Economics Association's annual conference, in San ...

A photo depicting a man eating food picked up from the ground on a street in Santiago de Cuba has sparked a wave of concern ...