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Ahead of his formal announcement for Senate, former Rep. Wiley Nickel spoke at a packed “empty chair” town hall for Sen. Thom Tillis in Marc...

Sen. Lisa Grafstein (Photo: NCGA) After several weeks of conducting business at a steady, manageable pace, the North Carolina General Assem...

Former U.S. Rep. Wiley Nickel (D-North Carolina) speaks at Wake Technical Community College in Wendell, North Carolina. We’re now three mon...

(Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)New polling from the Legal Action Center shows North Carolinians nearly universally (98%) view substance use...

Former President Bill Clinton offers a message of unity and praises the "Oklahoma Standard" at a remembrance ceremony Saturday on the 30th a...

A customer looks at a laptop computer for sale last year. States worry that an executive order and federal funding cuts could weaken their c...

North Carolina Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) holds a press conference on Senate Republicans' budget proposal on Monday...

The U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)The U.S. Supreme Court early Saturday temporarily blocked a new r...

Image: www.positivechildhoodalliancenc.orgEvery child deserves a positive, nurturing childhood, and our communities thrive when families hav...

Technology is making it easier to pull off financial crimes, and the U.S. is lacking a central agency to track them, experts say. (Getty Ima...

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, right, meets with Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on April 17, 2025. Van Hollen, a Marylan...

An Avelo Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft, taxiing to the gate (Photo: Getty Images/Jon Tetzlaff)Budget airline Avelo will continue operatin...

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez hugs his mom at a Wendy’s in Leon County following his release from jail on April 17, 2025. (Photo: Jackie Llanos/Fl...

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Co...

(Photo: Getty Images)Early this month, the U.S. Department of Education issued an ultimatum to K-12 public schools and state education agenc...

A display of banned books (Photo courtesy of San Jose Public Library via Flickr | CC-BY-SA 2.0/The Daily Montanan). Sometimes, you have to...

Residents complain that new construction in older neighborhoods like this one in Southeast Raleigh drive up taxes and make homes unaffordabl...

Dr. Beverly Edwards speaks at a Raleigh press conference at which health providers and advocates called on U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis to help sto...

(Photo: Getty Images)Our nation’s Medicaid program serves as a lifeline for millions of individuals grappling with chronic illnesses and dis...

North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall (R-Caldwell), left, and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) speak ahead of Gov. Jos...

Housing advocates rally outside the Buncombe County Courthouse during a call for a moratorium on evictions. (Photo: Courtesy of the Western...

Protesters outside the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in Greenbelt rally on April 4, 2025, in support of Kilmar Armando Ab...

A crowd gathered outside U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday, April 10, 2025, to protest the government's erroneous depor...

North Carolina senators talk on the chamber floor in between debates on the state budget on April 16, 2025. (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsl...