Campbell, Charlotte, East Carolina and Elon are among the more than 300 Division I institutions to opt into settlement ...

A shrimp trawler in the Pamlico Sound. Photo by P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer “Don’t you get tired of the fight?” someone asked after the June 17 Ocracoke Civic & Business Association ...

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Riggs is just starting her eight-year term and, but her Democratic colleague on the court, Justice Anita Earls, is up for reelection in 2026. Her bid will be sharply resisted by Republicans. If she ...

Advocacy groups and individual voters suing GOP state lawmakers in federal court claim Republican legislators drew racially ...

Trump had pushed Congress to deliver the bill by July 4 - and they did. Trump signed it into law during a ceremony on ...

Donald Trump signed his "One Big Beautiful Bill" in the Oval Office last night. It is possibly the most consequential thing ...

Republican Rep. Addison McDowell of Bermuda Run said on X: “I just voted to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill, just in time for ...

In the president’s eagerness to score a win and extend tax cuts, he walked away from a key campaign promise on Medicaid. The ...