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U.S. Rep. Deborah Ross read to children at Raleigh Nursery School in 2024 as part of an event designed to raise support for better public fu...

Search and recovery workers dig through debris looking for any survivors or remains of people swept up in the flash flooding at Camp Mystic...

President Donald Trump is displayed on a television screen as traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 7, 2025 in N...

(Screenshot from Governor’s Office X video that accompanied vetoes issued on July 2, 2025.) When North Carolinians elected Gov. Josh Stein...

A protester holds a photo of Kilmar Abrego Garcia as demonstrators gather to protest against the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador ou...

WCU political scientist Chris Cooper (Screengrab from News & Views interview)  North Carolina was rocked by a political earthquake this pa...

Mikaela Curry of the Sierra Club of NC (Courtesy Photo)Among the flurry of bills approved by the General Assembly during the last week of Ju...

The Halifax County Board of Elections (seen here) voted to dismiss Rep. Michael Wray's election protest at its March 19, 2024 meeting. (Phot...

Phi Nguyen, Demos' Director of Democracy, and Sarah Ovaska of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (Courtesy photos) A new report prep...

A respiratory therapist checks on patients in a Chicago hospital in 2022. States are scrambling to shield their hospitals from the looming l...

Rachel Castor, a single mom of two and teacher, stands outside her home in Sandpoint, Idaho. Castor’s son could not be admitted to the local...

A student draws with chalk on an outdoor court at a New York City public school in 2022. If states don’t receive billions in congressionally...

The U.S. Capitol on June 30, 2025. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom) Among the many remarkable news reports that emanated from Washi...

Firefighting foam, used at airports and military bases, has been identified as a source of toxic PFAS chemicals. More than 200 Environmental...

President Donald Trump holds up the "big, beautiful bill" that was signed into law as during a Fourth of July military family picnic on the...

An 1823 stone engraving of the Declaration of Independence (Image: National Archives) [Editor’s note: Today is July 4, 2025. It was 249 year...

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., talks to reporters as he walks to the Senate Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on June 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C....

The U.S. Capitol as lawmakers worked into the night on the "big beautiful bill" on July 2, 2025. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)WAS...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear West Virginia vs. B.P.J. during its fall term, a challenge to West Virginia’s ban on transgender athletes....

(Screenshot from Governor’s Office X video that accompanied vetoes issued on July 2, 2025.)North Carolina Democratic Gov. Josh Stein on Thur...

A sign displayed by U.S. Senate Democrats at a Washington, DC press conference on Feb. 19, 2025. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)...

Prison officers stand guard at a cell block at the Salvadoran mega-prison Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, on April 4, 2025...

Governor Josh Stein applies his veto stamp to a bill on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (Screenshot from Governor’s Office X video.)Governor Josh S...

Reentry advocate Kerwin Pittman (holding pair of ceremonial scissors) is joined by colleagues and supporters (including First Lady Anna Stei...