The eight individuals who own as much as half of the rest of the planet are all men, and have largely made their fortunes in technology. Most are American, with one European and one Mexican in the mix. Several have pledged to give it all to charity.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to clog the nation's capital for Donald Trump's inauguration and a major demonstration the day after, but how many will actually arrive to party or protest is an open question.
#WhatIMissFromThe2000s trended, along with a video from 'How To Dad,' demonstrating how he uses his daughter to wash his car!
We look at the hashtag, #BadProposalLocations and a video testing the musical knowledge of Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling!
Dozens gathered a rally in Marshall Park Sunday and at a townhall to express concerns they could lose coverage.
A Lincolnton man has been charged with sexual assault for having sex with a 15-year-old girl.
Eddie Long, the pastor of a Georgia megachurch whose reputation was tarnished after former congregants accused him of sexual misconduct, has died. He was 63.
A federal judge late Saturday temporarily blocked the U.S. government from quickly approving any proposal by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper designed to expand Medicaid coverage to potentially hundreds of thousands of uninsured people through President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
Rock Hill Police have released additional information regarding a man who was found dead on the rail road tracks Wednesday evening.
After 146 years, the curtain is coming down on "The Greatest Show on Earth." The owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus told The Associated Press that the show will close forever in May.
Outgoing U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx helped break ground on phase two of the Charlotte streetcar project Saturday. The former Charlotte mayor has less than a week left in office.
Joel Embiid scored 24 points, blocked three shots and led the Philadelphia 76ers to their third straight victory, 102-93 over the Charlotte Hornets on Friday night.
House Democrats still seething over FBI Director James Comey's handling of the election-year inquiry of Hillary Clinton confronted the law enforcement officer over his refusal to say whether the FBI is investigating possible links between President-elect Donald Trump's campaign and Russia.
Police have identified the victim of Charlotte's seventh homicide of 2017 after a man was shot and killed in west Charlotte Friday.
Donald Trump tore into civil rights legend John Lewis for questioning the legitimacy of the Republican billionaire's White House victory, intensifying a feud with the black congressman days before the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and as the first African-American president prepares to leave office.
A teenager has died and another person was taken to the hospital following a wreck in Gastonia Friday night.
And, whether a warning from a local police chief fell on deaf ears.
Police have arrested two teens they say shot into a car as it was leaving a parking lot Monday.
Four of those are still unsolved as of Friday night
Stolen from a hospital just hours after she was born, an 18-year-old woman finally learned her true identity and was reunited Friday with her birth family, by video chat. The woman she thought was her mother was charged with her kidnapping.
Takata Corp. has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal charge and will pay $1 billion in fines and restitution for a years-long scheme to conceal a deadly defect in its automotive air bag inflators.
A Morganton man was sentenced to two active sentences of 7-10 years and fined $200,000 after being found guilty of trafficking more than 300 grams of meth.
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