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Democratic leader Robert Reives notes that more than 700 Democratic-sponsored bills never received a hearing this session. (Photo: NCGA scre...

Boxes of cereal fill a store's shelves on April 16, 2025, in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)The U.S. House Agriculture Co...

State Supreme Court Justice takes the oath of office in the old North Carolina House chamber on May 13, 2025. (Photo: Brandon Kingdollar/NC...

Democrats in the North Carolina House Election Law Committee read a bill that would limit the governor's power to appoint new district attor...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, some of them masked, work alongside Harrison County, Miss., sheriff’s deputies to make ar...

The U.S. House will begin debate in committee this week on a bill that would cut Medicaid spending. (Getty Images)WASHINGTON — U.S. House Re...

A demonstrator holds a sign reading "Trans Kids Belong" at a March 2024 rally outside the North Carolina Legislative Building. Republican st...

Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs speaks at an NC Democratic Party rally on Jan. 5, 2025. (Photo: Lynn Bonner)Over the last several decade...

Flooding in western North Carolina from Hurricane Helene. (Photo: David Davis, County Extension Director, N.C. Cooperative Extension) The...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent prepares to testify before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Sena...

Children walk through Carter Traditional Elementary School in Louisville, Ky. School-based health services nationwide are partially funded t...

Jennifer Rublin (Courtesy photo) It’s been six long months now, but North Carolina’s seemingly never ending state Supreme Court election ma...

Rep. Zack Hawkins (Photo: NCGA)This past week was crossover week at the North Carolina General Assembly – a chaotic period in which lawmaker...

Hilary Harris Klein - Photo: Southern Coalition for Social JusticeThe challenge of keeping state voting rolls current and accurate has alway...

North Carolina Rep. Destin Hall (R-Caldwell) speaks with reporters at the legislative building on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. The House will beg...

Members of the North Carolina Board of Elections are sworn into office on May 7, 2025. (Photo: Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline) Fears about the tr...

The death of a friend spurred Democratic U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois to champion the Momnibus Act, legislation aimed at improving...

A protester holds a sign in support of funding for public media during a May 1, 2025, rally at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka as part of a...

As organizers seeking to unionize Amazon rally on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, a shipping truck rolls out of the dock. (Photo: Brandon Kingdollar...

The Lewis F. Powell Jr. federal courthouse in Richmond is home to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. (Photo: Ned Oliver/ Virgini...

The U.S. Supreme Court, as seen on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Thursday made a...

North Carolina Legislative Building (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline)Removing phones from classrooms. Overhauling the foster care system....

People experiencing homelessness were forced to move from an encampment off of U.S. 70 near Garner. (Photo: Greg Childress)Opponents of a bi...

Cam Hamilton, at the time senior official performing the duties of the administrator at FEMA, testifies before a House Appropriations subcom...