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Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State,...

Small business owner Dr. Ashley Gaddy Robbins speaks of the importance of preserving the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at a M...

An EVgo fast charging station charges a vehicle. (Photo: Loren Elliott for CalMatters) North Carolina’s economy has undergone many importan...

Left to right, Denver Mayor Michael Johnston, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and David J. Bier, director of immigra...

State Rep. Phil Rubin (Screengrab) Each year, the most important piece of legislation approved by the North Carolina General Assembly is th...

Patients have their blood pressure checked and other vitals taken at a mobile dental and medical clinic in Grundy, Va. Republicans in Congre...

Prison officers stand guard at a cell block at the Salvadoran mega-prison Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, on April 4, 2025...

Commerce Street Apartments will be adjacent to Elizabeth Street Apartments shown here. (Photo: Greg Childress)North Carolina housing advocat...

Participants walk through the Broadway Townhouses in Camden, N.J., as part of a training program to help neighborhoods affected by violence....

(Photo: Clayton Henkel)  It’s a universal rule of local government that nobody likes their property tax bill or the way their property is...

The new NC Board of Elections, with all members appointed by the state Auditor, are sworn in on May 7, 2025. Left to right, Jeff Carmon, Cha...

Members of the group Initiative Urheberrecht (authors' rights initiative) demonstrate to demand regulation of artificial intelligence on Jun...

Customers wait outside the DMV office in east Raleigh on Friday, May 30, 2025.(Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline)Every day at the east Rale...

The U.S. Supreme Court, on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Friday said it will allow...

A woman holds her newborn baby in her Los Angeles home. More legislatures in Republican-led states are passing paid parental leave for publi...

Attorney Ben Crump denounced the Wake County District Attorney for declining to prosecute the troopers. “Don’t say no more, look at the vide...

(Photo of Central Prison by Clayton Henkel)   No one ever said our state prisons would or should be cushy places to live and work. But nei...

Proposed changes to higher education policy in congressional Republicans’ tax and spending bill could weaken protections for student borrowe...

JD Vance boards his plane as he departs Arizona following a tour of the U.S. southern border with Mexico, on Aug. 1, 2024, in Sierra Vista,...

Billionaire and SpaceX owner Elon Musk said in an interview with CBS News that he was “disappointed” in the U.S. House GOP’s massive legisla...

Activists and tenants gather near Housing Authority of Winston-Salem headquarters in April to protest conditions in public housing. (Photo:...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday, May 20, 2025....

Photo: Screenshot from online meeting hosted by the Orange County Property Tax Justice Coalition.Four years ago, Orange County activists and...

An Asheville cyclist pedals toward a "WNC Strong" billboard moving past an enormous debris pile from Helene on his right. (Photo: Clayton He...