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Morning Edition
MON-FRI • 5AM-9AM
Every weekday for over three decades, NPR's Morning Edition has taken listeners around the country and the world with two hours of multi-faceted stories and commentaries that inform, challenge and occasionally amuse. Throughout the program, Marshall Terry and the WFAE News team keep you up to date on news from the Charlotte area and across the Carolinas. At 5:50am, 6:50am, and 8:50am, listeners will also hear the Marketplace Morning Report.
Morning Edition also includes Asian View from NHK in Tokyo at 5:42am, and Sound Beat at 6:42am.
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The Olympic Games will soon begin. The high school where legendary track star Jesse Owens got his start is reviving the boys track and field team.
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Airline travel used to be glamorous, lavish even. How did the experience of flying coach become so widely disparaged? It's a five decade long story of deregulation. And in the end, we customers may just be getting exactly what we asked for.
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In 1999, a 14-year-old Scott Detrow was one of 42,000 fans crowded into the old Yankee Stadium on a steamy Sunday afternoon. What followed was a perfect game.
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Comic Bob Newhart has died at age 94. He was best known for an everyman persona that powered two classic TV sitcoms. Newhart could be the funniest guy in the room while playing unassuming characters.
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A new dinosaur has been discovered in Utah by North Carolina researchers and paleontologists. They believe it was a burrowing species.
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The latest information about what went wrong in the Secret Service protection plan for President Trump last Saturday, with developments in Butler, Penn., and Washington, D.C.
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Thursday is the last night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump is expected to deliver a “deeply personal message” shaped by the assassination attempt on his life on Saturday.
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A Colorado doctor is co-leading a campaign to end restrictions on cornea donations from men who have sex with men. Advocates say an outdated HIV prevention policy bars hundreds of donations a year.
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Bernice Johnson Reagon, a civil rights activist who co-founded The Freedom Singers and later started the African-American vocal ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, died Tuesday at the age of 81.
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So much ice is melting at the Earth's poles that it's affecting the rotation of the planet, scientists say. Its spin is slowing down slightly, causing days to get longer.