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Andrew Keen is pictured in Amsterdam in 2015. (Vera de Kok/Wikimedia Commons)

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Says Internet Often Falls Short On Its Promise

Andrew Keen argues that the Internet often hurts the middle class, artists and small businesses.

Vehicles move ash onto rail cars at Duke Energy's Dan River site. (Dave DeWitt/WUNC)

Slow Going On Coal Ash Cleanup In North Carolina

Two years after nearly 40,000 tons of coal ash flowed into the Dan River, the cleanup process still has a long way to go.

Futbol Club Barcelona's Neymar da Silva Santos pours champagne over Adriano as their team won the final match against River Plate at the FIFA Club World Cup soccer tournament in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Dec. 20.

Soccer, The Normal-Sized Player's Game

It's called "the beautiful game," but sports commentator Frank Deford says that's because of who plays soccer, not because of how it's played.

Members of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra are being asked to agree to concessions in their new labor contract. (Hartford Symphony Orchestra via Facebook)

Hartford Symphony Plans To Close If Musicians Don't Agree To Concessions

A contentious labor dispute between the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and its musicians has reached a breaking point.

Workers clear the street of snow two days after a massive snowstorm covered the East Coast of the United States in snow on January 25, 2016 in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

East Coast Blizzard Expected To Take Smaller Economic Toll Than Weekday Storms

Jill Schlesinger of CBS News discusses the economic effects of the winter storm, and the types of businesses most affected.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey, who leads the fourth largest police department in the nation, attends an event by U.S. President Barack Obama at the Salvation Army, Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center May 18, 2015 in Camden, New Jersey. Camden was recently designated as a "Promise Zone", which uses government grants and social programs to increase the local economy. Obama spoke about how these community partnerships are vital to create many different opportunities for all Americans. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

National Leader On Community Policing To Advise Chicago Police Department

Charles Ramsey has been tapped by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to advise the city's police department on civil rights issues.

As Left And Right Fret Over Primary, Michael Bloomberg Mulls A Run

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg sees an opening in the race, and is seriously considering a run at the White House.

FBI Agent Says Occupiers Could Have Left Peacefully

Authorities say the armed group occupying the national wildlife preserve in Oregon was given "ample opportunity" to leave peacefully.

Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water Resources, leaves the snow covered meadow where he performed the first manual snow survey of the season at Phillips Station near Echo Summit, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. The survey showed the snowpack to be nearly 5 feet deep, with a water content of 16.3 inches, which is 136 percent of normal for this site at this time of year. Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

Amid Severe Drought, California Snowpack Hits 5-Year High

The increase is likely brought on by recent El Niño storms and, while reservoirs remain below average, it's a good sign for the future.

DeLorean To Crank Out More 'Back To The Future' Cars

DeLorean Motor Company, which hasn't made a car in more than 30 years, plans to build several hundred replicas of the stainless steel, gull-winged car featured in the movie trilogy Back To The Future.

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