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Photo: Getty ImagesLegislators were divided Tuesday over a move intended to smooth the way for North Carolina to require people who gained h...

(Photo by Aristide Economopoulos/NJ Monitor)The North Carolina House Judiciary 2 Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would allow individu...

North Carolinians could soon find themselves paying more for Mexican-made spirits like tequila as the Trump tariffs take effect. (Photo: Cla...

The North Carolina Legislative Building as it appeared on March 14, 2025. (Photo: Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline)The North Carolina House Ru...

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at DHS headquarters in Washington on Jan. 28, 2025.  (Photo by Manuel...

Democratic members of Congress on Monday gathered on the National Mall in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility. (Stock photo by Vladimir V...

Gov. Josh Stein signs a hurricane recovery package surrounded by a bipartisan group of state lawmakers. The author says Stein would meet fev...

Nicholas Hemachandra listens to his father Ray talk about the needs of people with disabilities at the NC Legislative Building. (Photo: Lynn...

This workforce housing development in Bertie County opened last summer. Dream Point can house as many as 40 people. (Photo: Bertie County Sc...

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 3, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Mon...

Rep. Lindsey Prather (D-Buncombe Co.)  It was six months ago that Hurricane Helene devastated much of western North Carolina with record-br...

Older adults participate in a falls prevention awareness day of action in Fort Worth, Texas, in September. Around the nation, doctors, lawma...

Journalist Sara Murphy (Courtesy photo)  The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina six months ago was, in many...

Duke University Sanford School Emeritus Professor of Public Policy Phil Cook (Photo: Sanford School of Public Policy) Across the United St...

Flood debris piles left in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Bat Cave, North Carolina. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)When Hurricane...

Students line up as they return to school in Durham County. (File photo) It’s been two decades since state legislators bowed to tourism ind...

For the past decade, BMI has been used to deny or delay abortion care, despite researchers finding little evidence of increased adverse outc...

White House Senior Advisor to the President, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives for a meeting with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capito...

Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin continues to pursue litigation in hopes of overturning the results of the Novembe...

Signage and flowers are placed on a tree next to where ICE agents apprehended Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk on March 27,...

The U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The Trump administration submitted an emergency appe...

Free food is distributed to residents in need at a weekly food bank in February 2024 in New York City. The Trump administration has eliminat...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dir...

Emergency response units search the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed on approach to Ro...