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Terminally ill people languish in North Carolina prisons, even after reforms
(Photo: Caspar Benson/Getty Images)This story first appeared in Bolts, and is reprinted with permission. “One doctor said I got two-to-four years left to live,” drawled 64-year-old James Davis in a...
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No jail time or fines for Trump in sentencing for NY hush money case
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan at Manhattan Criminal Court on Jan. 10, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by...
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A federal appeals court will hear the NC Supreme Court elections case
Voters line up outside the Durham Main Library in the November 2024 election. (Photo: Lynn Bonner)The federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday said it will hear Republican State appeals court...
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Roy Cooper blasts ‘egregious attack on the right to vote’ in state Supreme...
Former Gov. Roy Cooper, seen here during a briefing in September of 2024, on Monday blasted the effort of Republican Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin to have more than 60,000 ballots cast in...
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Trump would have been convicted on election interference charges, says...
Jack Smith, at the time the special counsel, delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment including four felony counts against Donald Trump at the Justice Department on Aug. 1, 2023 in...
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Over a third of Americans are on TikTok. That could change in a week.
Sarah Baus of Charleston, South Carolina, left, holds a sign that reads "Keep TikTok" as she and other content creators Sallye Miley of Jackson, Mississippi, middle, and Callie Goodwin of Columbia,...
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Demonstrators recite names of more than 60,000 voters targeted for exclusion...
Organizers with the Can’t Win Victory Fund read aloud the names of voters targeted for exclusion by the ongoing challenge to the state Supreme Court election. (Photo: Brandon Kingdollar)Democracy...
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GOP Judge Jefferson Griffin’s election case targets people who voted early
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)When and how North Carolina...
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NC’s first mobile reentry service center for the formerly incarcerated is...
Reentry advocate Kerwin Pittman (holding pair of ceremonial scissors) is joined by colleagues and supporters (including N.C. Department of Adult Correction Secretary Leslie Cooley Dismukes - second...
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U.S. attorney general nominee probed about Trump threats of vengeance, Jan. 6...
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing for U.S. attorney general in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on...
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TikTok ban poised to disrupt information ecosystem, livelihood of millions of...
Callie Goodwin, a creator from Columbia, South Carolina with nearly 250,000 followers, flew to Washington D.C. last week to advocate against the TikTok ban. (Photo courtesy Callie Goodwin)As the fate...
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Biden declares Equal Rights Amendment is the ‘law of the land,’ contradicting...
Protesters gather to call for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment on Sept. 28, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Supporters showed up to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th...
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In Duke MLK address, prosecutor in George Floyd case champions America’s...
Judge Jerry Blackwell urged congregants not to give up hope amid America’s time of anxiety and fear, and instead shine their lights to overcome it. (Photo: screengrab from service livestream.)Judge...
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Biden issues preemptive pardons to Fauci, Milley and Jan. 6 committee...
Donald Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — Hours before his four-year term ended, President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons...
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Trump issues pardons for 1,500 defendants charged in Jan. 6 attack on U.S....
Donald Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump...
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NC’s Jeff Jackson, 17 other attorneys general challenge Trump’s citizenship...
A Haitian mother holds her baby inside a tent in the large migrant camp near an international bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border on September 21, 2021 in Del Rio, Texas. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)A...
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U.S. Senate Republicans have little to say about Trump pardons of 1,500 Jan....
Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers founder, speaks with the press in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2025, after being released after spending the past three years in Cumberland, Maryland, at the Federal...
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GOP Judge Jefferson Griffin wants overseas ballots from Democratic counties...
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin continues to pursue litigation in hopes of overturning the results of the November election he lost to incumbent Justice Allison Riggs. (File...
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NC Supreme Court won’t immediately take up GOP Judge Griffin’s request to...
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin continues to pursue litigation in hopes of overturning the results of the November election he lost to incumbent Justice Allison Riggs. (File...
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NC organizations mobilize against a judge’s effort to throw out votes
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin continues to pursue litigation in hopes of overturning the results of the November election he lost to incumbent Justice Allison Riggs. (File...
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