NEW: Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment. By Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

NC election officials approve new rules for noncitizen voter challenges ncnewsline.com/2026/04/16/n...

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

Good morning. Congress is back today, and we're watching to see whether the Senate will resume debate on the SAVE America Act. Over the recess, I looked at a couple aspects of the bill >>> (1/2) www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

UNC chancellors sidestep political questions at forum on challenges facing higher education ncnewsline.com/2026/04/09/u...

The House of Berger ncnewsline.com/2026/04/01/t...

Republican state Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) was handed a setback in his election recount efforts Wednesday when the North Carolina State Board of Elections declined to take up his request for an expedited hand-eye recount of 220 ballots. Story by @kingdollar.bsky.social #ncpol

"Per the analysis by Open the Books, in September, the Pentagon spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab, $6.9 million on lobster tail, $15.1 million on ribeye steak, and $1 million on salmon. Dessert included 272 orders of doughnuts for $139,224 and ice cream machines for $124,000."

Provisional ballot count in NC Senate Berger/Page primary. Berger adds 26 votes. Page adds 56 votes. Guilford elections board meeting ongoing.

BREAKING: Kristi Noem out as DHS secretary; Trump to tap Oklahoma Sen. Mullin ncnewsline.com/2026/03/05/r...

Berger challenger Sam Page asks state elections overseer to recuse himself as ballot count goes on ncnewsline.com/2026/03/04/b...

Tick… Tick… Tick…

New: An immigration judge has rejected the Trump administration's efforts to deport Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested last year as part of its targeting of pro-Palestinian campus activists, her lawyers said. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

NC lawmaker investigated reports of campus antisemitism. Now she’s being sued. Student activist Khymani James sues US Rep. Virginia Foxx, alleging she abused power to obtain his de facto expulsion from Columbia University. (Via Jane Sartwell) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... #ncpol #nced

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

In 16 weeks, the South Carolina measles outbreak has surpassed the total number of cases reached in the West Texas outbreak over the course of seven months.

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document. Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.

Trump, who turns 80 this year, repeatedly mixes up Greenland and Iceland in Davos speech even as he argues that one of them should be part of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

".. when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms,” Trump said. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

Many journalists said they saw the FBI raid of a Washington Post reporter’s home as a jarring new step aimed at limiting news organizations’ ability to gather information that the government does not want to be made public.

As thousands of immigration agents arrive in Minnesota, neighbors are working together to track, distract and protest ICE. The cat-and-mouse game between activists and agents is escalating as tactics change daily.

Amid protests, NC elections board rejects campus voting sites and Sunday voting in several counties ncnewsline.com/2026/01/13/a...

Authorities have reported the death of a Nicaraguan immigrant in ICE custody in a hospital in Natchez, Mississippi, the seventh reported death of an immigrant in ICE custody this month. buff.ly/NntUdNz

NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises. An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.” These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:

Jim Hunt, NC governor who won four terms and shaped legacy on education, dies ncnewsline.com/2025/12/18/j...

FEMA planned changes for disaster aid. NC local leaders say they’re ‘unhelpful’ and ‘tone deaf’ ncnewsline.com/2025/12/16/f...

Republicans could gain nearly 200 state legislative seats in voting rights case, report finds ncnewsline.com/2025/12/15/r...

When ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social began talking to people in Albany, GA, she didn’t expect that they would be so fearful to criticize the town’s sole hospital on the record — or how powerless they were to hold that hospital to account. Read our 5-part "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:

The forever chemical TFA could cause irreversible harm. In Eastern North Carolina, it’s everywhere. ncnewsline.com/2025/12/12/t...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Senate Republicans reject new congressional maps in defiance of Trump’s redistricting push.

Republicans in Congress eye more power for states to remove voters ncnewsline.com/2025/12/11/r...

Trump endorses Phil Berger, as Sam Page continues primary challenge despite president’s request ncnewsline.com/2025/12/11/t...

Democrat Nida Allam brings major progressive backers to challenge incumbent US Rep. Foushee ncnewsline.com/2025/12/11/d...

Via Jennifer Shutt: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson committed Wednesday to hold a vote next week on a package of health care bills, but didn't say which bills would be included or whether they had the GOP votes to pass. https://ow.ly/Uggb50XH84c

Two successful lawsuits restoring full Medicaid payments to health providers and more lawsuits in the legal pipeline led to his decision to reverse rate cuts imposed this fall, Democratic Gov. Josh Stein announced Wednesday. ncnewsline.com/2025/12/10/n... Story by @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol

Gov. Stein endorses House Democrat, wading into Democratic primary before filing ends ncnewsline.com/briefs/gov-s...

CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES LOOK FAVORABLY ON EXPANDING TRUMP POWERS: US Supreme Court seems ready to back Trump in case of fired FTC commissioner -- from our @ashleymurray.bsky.social in the courthouse for @statesnewsroom.com DC www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-s...

NC Democrat seeking return to the state House appeals to Republicans for primary votes ncnewsline.com/briefs/nc-de...

Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site. www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

NEW: North Carolina prison officials, this summer, raised the price of items that incarcerated people can buy. The prices are already way marked-up; & incarcerated people make a tiny fraction of minimum wage if they work. An incarcerated reporter explains what's happening, & why it matters:

Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina is using Trump’s Mississippi nominees as leverage in a gambit to compel Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi to help the Lumbee Tribe finally achieve federal recognition—and all the rights and benefits it entails. buff.ly/J0pjl4f

SCOOP: Paul Ingrassia, a lawyer who previously represented the Tate brothers before joining the White House, chided authorities for seizing the brothers’ devices, saying it was not a good use of time or resources. He told DHS officials to give them back.