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Shutdown likely to halt food benefits for 42 million...

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2025/10/22

WASHINGTON — More than 42 million low-income Americans are at risk of losing food assistance Nov. 1 if the government shutdown continues. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which operates the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has about $6 billion in a multi-year contingency fund. That’s short of the roughly $9 billion needed to cover […]

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The Road to Corruption

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2025/10/22

Not long ago, a Florida developer struck a deal with officials in Mooresville, a booming town north of Charlotte. In exchange for the company paying $15 million for a new road, the town agreed to rezone a large parcel of land for a massive “planned community” with shops and 560 homes. Town leaders boasted that […]

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Trump’s National Guard deployments raise worries...

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2025/10/22

As President Donald Trump prepares to send National Guard troops — from either Oregon, California or possibly Texas — into Portland, Oregon, entrepreneur Sarah Shaoul watches with deep concern. A three-decade resident of the Portland area, Shaoul leads a coalition of roughly 100 local small businesses, including many dependent on foot traffic. Armed troops could […]

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Young NC drivers speak out on National Teen Driver...

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2025/10/22

Nearly 11,000 teenagers are injured on North Carolina roadways each year, and more than 100 are killed. These wrecks are preventable, and we all know how: We have to dedicate ourselves to good driving habits every moment we’re behind the wheel. That’s the message we carry as part of the NC Alliance for Safe Transportation’s […]

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NC House begins process that could result in...

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2025/10/21

A special committee in the North Carolina state House could ultimately decide to recommend expelling Rep. Cecil Brockman, who has been charged with sex crimes involving a child. House Speaker Destin Hall said Tuesday he is creating a bipartisan special committee whose work could lead to an expulsion vote. Appointments are likely to be announced […]

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Lawmaker wants North Carolina to tap reserves to...

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2025/10/21

A key lawmaker in the North Carolina House wants to give health officials the go-ahead to dip into reserve money to prevent major cuts to the state’s Medicaid program — but the timeline and process for that proposal remain unclear. Rep. Donny Lambeth (R-Forsyth), who chairs the House’s budget and health committees, introduced a plan […]

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‘A boundless power’: Dem states ask Supreme Court to...

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2025/10/21

Every state with either a Democratic governor, attorney general or both signed a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to side with Illinois and Chicago to continue blocking President Donald Trump’s proposed deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago. In an amicus brief filed Monday in the Trump administration’s appeal to overturn lower […]

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‘We need action’: Medicaid recipients and advocates...

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2025/10/21

More than 200 people gathered in downtown Raleigh Tuesday morning to call for more Medicaid funding before heading to the legislature to make their pitch directly to lawmakers. A coalition of health care providers and Medicaid recipients — including representation from 25 statewide organizations — met on Jones Street to hear the stories of North […]

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In Durham, tenants get new tool to fight landlords...

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2025/10/21

Cheers erupted Monday after the Durham City Council unanimously approved an amendment to the city’s housing code that prohibits landlord from collecting rent if a housing unit is found to be “imminently dangerous” to tenants’ health and safety. Under the new ordinance, which is modeled after one in Charlotte, landlords can be charged with a […]

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GOP-led NC redistricting plan moving through House as...

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2025/10/21

As North Carolina lawmakers continued to advance a new congressional map Tuesday that would flip control of a northeastern swing district to favor Republicans, a former occupant of that seat visited the legislature to denounce the plan. “You’ve done a disservice to my own people,” former U.S. Rep. Eva Clayton, who represented the district from […]

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Four in five NC families who want afterschool...

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2025/10/21

Four out of five North Carolina families who want their children in afterschool programs can’t access one, according to a new national survey released recently. The America After 3 p.m. survey, conducted by the Afterschool Alliance, found that about 188,000 North Carolina children currently attend afterschool programs which is roughly the same as five years […]

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Trump tried to lay off more than 2,000 Interior staff...

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2025/10/21

WASHINGTON — The Interior Department announced Monday it will pause efforts to lay off 2,050 employees throughout the country, after a federal judge expanded a temporary restraining order late last week. The new filing provides more information about how the Trump administration plans to reduce the size and scope of a department that oversees much […]

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Veterans, rural residents, older adults may lose food...

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2025/10/21

States are rushing to inform some residents who rely on food stamps that they will soon be forced to meet work requirements or lose their food assistance. Recent federal legislation ended exemptions to work requirements for older adults, homeless people, veterans and some rural residents, among others. A rapid timeline to put the changes into […]

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North Carolina Republicans stop pretending

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2025/10/21

There’s a strong argument to be made that North Carolina Republicans have, for many years, not been serious about adhering to legal and constitutional norms when it comes to the state’s elections. In 2016, former state Rep. David Lewis (a man later convicted of multiple felonies) proclaimed on the House floor during a redistricting debate […]

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Voting rights groups condemn GOP redistricting plan...

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2025/10/20

A coalition of North Carolina voting rights advocates on Monday denounced newly proposed congressional maps they say would dismantle the state’s historic Black Belt district and erode Black political power in the state’s northeast. The group held a press conference hours after a Senate committee adopted a redistricting plan that would make the 1st Congressional […]

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NC Senate passes a new voting map to flip another...

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2025/10/20

North Carolina Republicans are moving with remarkable speed to add help add an 11th member of their party to the state’s 14-member congressional delegation. The Senate voted 26-20 along party lines on Tuesday to give its final approval to a new map that would make one more congressional district unwinnable for a Democrat. The House […]

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NC politicians are undermining fair elections, and it...

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2025/10/20

Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy. But when the system is repeatedly rigged to favor one side, that right quickly erodes. On October 13, North Carolina Republican leaders announced plans to vote on new United States House maps. House Speaker Destin Hall (R-Caldwell), Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham), and House Redistricting Chairs Brenden Jones […]

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Shutdown leaves gaps in states’ health data, possibly...

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2025/10/20

As the federal shutdown continues, states have been forced to fall back on their own resources to spot disease outbreaks — just as respiratory illness season begins. The shutdown has halted dashboards and expert analysis from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which monitors indicators such as wastewater to provide early warnings of […]

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Tariffs threaten Korean culture, import boom in North...

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2025/10/20

In July, Trump announced a 25% tariff on goods made in South Korea. He later lowered the rate to 15%, including for South Korean cars.

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As Trump opposition grows, North Carolina Republicans...

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2025/10/20

For 10 months, Rep. Tim Moore (R-N.C.) has served the people of North Carolina’s 14th Congressional District. Many of them are still waiting to meet him. Over a period where some North Carolina lawmakers have held as many as six town halls, Moore has held zero — so fed-up constituents have hosted two without him. […]

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