Our annual list of the most popular fact checks holds a surprise this year. For the first time since 2015, a fact check about former president Donald Trump published in the same year didn’t make it.

Starting this month, more than 65 million Social Security beneficiaries will receive benefit checks that include a record-breaking 8.7% cost-of-living adjustment. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever ...

North Carolina bucked a nationwide trend last year with gun purchases, registering more federal firearm background checks in 2023 than it did in 2022. In fact, North Carolina recorded the largest ...

Salesmen Ted Shore, right, and Ian Mahathey assemble a shotgun for a customer at Hyatt Gun Shop in Charlotte in 2021. David T. Foster III dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com North Carolina bucked a ...