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Democratic incumbent Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and her Republican challenger, Judge Jefferson Griffin. (Courtesy photos) Two Repub...

A Duke Energy coal fired power plant near Roxboro, NC (Photo: Courtesy of the Southern Environmental Law Center) More than 60 research scien...

Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks during a confirmation hearing with the Senate Finance Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 14, 2025...

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

New Nissan cars are driven onto a rail car to be transported from an automobile processing terminal located at the Port of Los Angeles on Ap...

A 7-year-old boy picks up a handgun during the 2022 National Rifle Association annual convention in Houston. The number of firearm deaths am...

The U.S. Capitol, wrapped in fog, on Dec. 18, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursda...

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C., pictured on Nov. 25, 2024. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States...

NC Treasurer Brad Briner tells the House Oversight Committee about the state pension plan deficit. (Screenshot from NCGA video feed)The stat...

Photo: Getty ImagesTwo North Carolina Senate committees have advanced a bill repealing the state’s “certificate of need” law that requires n...

Students at Tennessee State University, a public HBCU, greet Oprah Winfrey at a 2023 commencement ceremony. In recent months, university off...

A NOAA NO-XP radar antenna prior to operations in VORTEX 2 in Norman, Oklahoma, on Oct. 5, 2010.  (Photo credit NOAA)Democrats on the U.S. H...

This map -- produced by the group Appalachian Voices and republished in the 7 Directions of Service/Sierra Club report "Overburdened and Ove...

Demonstrators protest outside the KI Convention Center before the start of a town hall meeting with Elon Musk on March 30, 2025 in Green Bay...

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a chart while speaking during a “Make America Wealthy Again” trade announcement event in the Rose Garde...

Rep. Allen Chesser (R-Nash) discusses a child welfare bill (Photo: Lynn Bonner)Marcella Middleton was in and out of foster care from ages 2...

The campus of UNC-Chapel Hill (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are looking to define a range of “di...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order March 14, 2025, imposing dramatic cuts on seven federal agencies, including the Institute o...

North Carolina state auditor Dave Boliek speaks to lawmakers about a bill that would give his office a new team to examine state spending an...

A 7-year-old boy picks up a handgun during the 2022 National Rifle Association annual convention in Houston. The number of firearm deaths am...

The North Carolina Legislative Building (Photo: Clayton Henkel) The North Carolina House Judiciary 1 Committee approved a bill Tuesday after...

Sen. Cory Booker's 25-hour-plus speech broke a record previously held by a South Carolina senator who tried to prevent passage of the Civil...

French wine on display in a District of Columbia shop on March 13, 2025, the day President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on European wine...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein delivers his first State of the State address to the General Assembly at the Legislative Building in Raleigh...

People demonstrate outside the main campus of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention on April 1, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. Health an...