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NC Republicans unveil new constitutional amendments on income tax, voter ID
The NC Senate chamber (Photo: ncleg.net)Republicans in North Carolina’s legislature are rapidly advancing a pair of proposed constitutional amendments that would cap the state’s income tax rate and...
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NC Senate leader says his comments casting doubt on election results...
Senate Leader Phil Berger (Screengrab from NCGA video) North Carolina Senate Leader Phil Berger defended his questioning of election results, telling reporters Monday that his comments were “a...
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Biden’s pardon of his son draws blowback from Republicans, a few Democrats
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the results of the 2024 election in the Rose Garden at the White House on Nov. 7, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)WASHINGTON —...
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State prisons turn to extended lockdowns amid staffing shortages, overcrowding
Inmates exercise in the maximum security yard of the Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kan. When prisons enter lockdown, access to yard time and other activities, including rehabilitative...
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Tennessee’s gender affirming care ban for children goes to U.S. Supreme Court...
Oral arguments will take place before the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 4 in Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming care for minors. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)Tennessee’s attorney general is...
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North Carolina town sues Duke Energy over the climate crisis
An aerial view of gas being burned off near overturned tank cars amid flood damage wrought by Hurricane Helene along the Swannanoa River on Oct. 4, 2024 in Asheville. A lawsuit filed Wednesday by the...
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Conservative justices lean toward allowing Tennessee’s ban on gender...
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 04: Transgender rights opponents and a supporter rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in a case on transgender health rights on December 04,...
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GOP Supreme Court candidate wants elections board to hurry up and vote on his...
Judge Jefferson Griffin and Justice Allison Riggs (Courtesy photos)Republican Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin has asked his colleagues on the court to force the state Board of Elections to make a...
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The NC Democratic Party sues to prevent the state elections board from...
(Photo: Clayton Henkel).The North Carolina Democratic Party filed a federal lawsuit Friday to stop the State Board of Elections from erasing votes as Republican candidates want. Democrats said in the...
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Ruling by a conservative Supreme Court could help blue states resist Trump...
The fishing vessel Nancy Elizabeth, a herring trawler involved in the Loper Bright Supreme Court decision in June, is seen in Cape May, N.J. The decision upheld a challenge by herring fishermen to a...
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Supreme Court election protest ensnares voters of all stripes, including some...
Voters make selections at their voting booths inside an early voting site on Oct. 17, 2024 in Hendersonville, North Carolina. (Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)Raymond Corbett of Johnston...
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Altoona, Pa., police arrest suspect in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian...
Police gather outside of a Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan where United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on December 04, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty...
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Trump poised to reshape NC federal courts more in his second term than his first
President-elect Donald Trump will have multiple federal judicial vacancies that cover North Carolina to fill when he takes office. (Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)Across his entire first term in...
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Trump says Liz Cheney, Mississippi congressman ‘should go to jail’ for Jan. 6...
Donald Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images)WASHINGTON —...
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No third recount for GOP Judge Griffin as Democrats denounce his effort to...
Dr. Kimberly Hardy, an assistant professor at Fayetteville State University, joined with other Democrats on Tuesday criticizing GOP Judge Jefferson Griffin for trying to throw out ballots. (Screenshot...
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NC Republicans pass law shifting government power, overriding Cooper’s veto
North Carolinians look on and hold protest signs as legislators override the governor's veto of Senate Bill 382, a controversial power shift bill they decried as a “legislative coup.” The bill offers...
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NC Board of Elections rejects GOP Supreme Court candidate’s efforts to throw...
Democratic incumbent Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and her Republican challenger, Judge Jefferson Griffin. (Courtesy photos) The state Board of Elections on Wednesday rejected Republican Appeals...
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A man radicalized by statistics
HOLLIDAYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA - DECEMBER 10: Suspected shooter Luigi Mangione is led from the Blair County Courthouse after an extradition hearing December 10, 2024 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania....
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Biden commutes sentences of nearly 1,500 people, pardons 39 in historic...
President Joe Biden on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 people and granted pardons for 39 individuals with convictions for nonviolent crimes. (Photo by Caspar...
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Incarcerated populations return to western NC prisons evacuated during Helene
Scotland Correctional Institution, one of the largest prisons in North Carolina, was a recipient of some individuals transferred from western NC facilities. (Photo: Google Earth_More than 1,000...
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