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The author has uncovered more than $3 million that gambling interests have spent between 2022 and 2024 to influence the decisions of North C...

North Carolina lawmakers discussed legislation to legalize medical marijuana. Photo: Getty ImagesOn a 36-10 vote, the North Carolina Senate...

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 2018 rule to ban bump stocks, which allow semiautomatic rifles to fire at a rapid rate similar to full...

The North Carolina Legislative Building in downtown Raleigh (Photo: Clayton Henkel) North Carolina House and Senate Republican leaders both...

Sen. Ralph Hise and Senate leader Phil Berger talk after the Senate passes its budget (Photo: Lynn Bonner)The Senate pushed forward with its...

Sen. Natalie Murdock (D-Durham) speaks at a North Carolina Legislative Building press conference at which Senate Democrats called for passag...

Melissa Price Kromm If there’s been a most controversial bill to wend its way through the North Carolina General Assembly this spring, right...

Christina Baal-Owens (Courtesy: Public Wise)It’s been well over three years since Donald Trump’s lie about the 2020 election was thoroughly...

Erica Palmer Smith For several years now, researchers at the national Annie E. Casey Foundation have measured and documented how well each U...

Kristen Chapman moved from Tennessee to Virginia so her 15 year-old transgender daughter can continue receiving gender-affirming care. On Mo...

Abortion rights demonstrators at the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — Exactly two years after the U.S....

The author -- a retired physician -- says the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding FDA regulation of the abortion pill mifepristone wa...

A resident places his signature on a petition during Missourians for Constitutional Freedom’s kickoff petition drive in Kansas City, Mo., in...

President Biden and former President Donald Trump are seen during their September 29, 2020 debate. The two will debate again this Thursday J...

Editorial cartoon by John ColeRead the story that inspired this week’s Coletoon here.The post Tipping the scales of justice appeared first...

The number of federal student financial aid forms filed by graduating high school seniors is down compared to last year, after glitches and...

North Carolina Legislative Building (Photo: Clayton Henkel)Dueling GOP budgets: NC House Repubs advance proposal that Senate counterparts sa...

The water tower is a defining feature of the Bynum skyline and has stood for 75 years. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate NewsBYNUM, N.C.—Pitt...

The author has some reservations about the fast-growing sport of pickleball. (Photo: https://www.parks.fortlauderdale.gov/)Looking back, it...

Congresswomen Valerie Foushee (left) and Deborah Ross (center) are joined by Gov. Roy Cooper at a Raleigh event to highlight the harms of th...

President Joe Biden speaks at an event marking the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in the East Room a...

Governor Roy Cooper has vetoed House Bill 237 (File photo) Governor Roy Cooper vetoed House Bill 237 (Various Criminal and Election Law Chan...

Supporters of reproductive rights protested outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, as justices heard oral arguments over...

Eric Brandon of Nevada tries out a semi-automatic pistol at The Gun Store on Nov. 14, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Gett...

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew takes questions from Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House O...