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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...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters before heading to the House chamber for a procedural vote on the "One, Big, B...

The U.S. Capitol on Sunday, June 29, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)The U.S. Senate narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s...

An Afghan woman and her child browse through donated clothing at Fort Pickett in December 2021 in Blackstone, Va. Afghans brought to the Uni...

(Photo: Getty Images)North Carolina has debated legalizing lottery tickets, sports betting, and video poker, with fierce controversies atten...

The U.S. Capitol on June 30, 2025. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The final “big beautiful bill” approved by Senate Re...

Kimberly Jones, seen here addressing students, was the 2023 Burroughs Wellcome Fund North Carolina Teacher of the Year. Jones is one of man...

Lara Trump and Eric Trump attend the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025. (P...

Senate President Phil Berger (File photo)/ President Donald Trump (Getty Images) President Trump’s massive budget bill moved one step close...

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office on April 23, 2025. Secretary of Commerce Howard...

(Stock photo via Getty Images)The analysis is in. North Carolina’s latest high-profile energy legislation, Senate Bill 266, will cost $23 bi...

Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, shown here in a June 17, 2025, committee hearing, proposed paring down...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance, center, arrives during a vote-a-rama at the U.S. Capitol, on July 1, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Al Dra...

Sexual assault examination kit. (Photo: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance)Seventeen state...

Image: Adobe Stock It’s a sad commentary on the power of the right-wing misinformation machine in modern America that simple and enormously...