Homeland Security retreats on plan to get data on mail-in voters ncnewsline.com/2026/06/10/r...

Trump administration grants Duke Energy $28.4M for NC coal plant ncnewsline.com/2026/06/08/t...

US Senate blocks Trump’s SAVE America Act, thwarting restrictions on voting ncnewsline.com/2026/06/05/r...

NEW - Republicans in Congress are again eyeing cuts to the Election Assistance Commission — despite election security rhetoric Election officials say the EAC’s election security grants are already woefully underfunded My latest for @statesnewsroom.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/cong...

A GOP county elections board member said he was warned against voting for a campus polling site ncnewsline.com/2026/06/03/a...

The White House intervened to get a $620 million deal for an NC company tied to Donald Trump Jr. ncnewsline.com/2026/05/28/t...

NC GOP lawmaker removes name from anti-abortion bill after social media outcry ncnewsline.com/2026/05/27/n...

NC’s child death rate is rising, with a big jump in teen homicides ncnewsline.com/2026/05/27/n...

Former UNC chancellor Guskiewicz named Clemson’s new president ncnewsline.com/2026/05/27/r...

Republican NC senators propose cuts to the state’s most popular voting method ncnewsline.com/2026/05/21/n...

absolutely wild scoop by my @indyweek.bsky.social colleague @ccourtneybohl.bsky.social on the Town of Cary’s $330k spend on “documentary-style videos about town projects and culture”—including a mini doc about the leadup to a staff flash dance—for internal use.

In recent days @statesnewsroom.com published its AI policy. Bottom line: “States Newsroom does not publish stories or commentaries generated by AI.” statesnewsroom.com/ai-policy/

Tennessee’s new 9-0 GOP gerrymander would erase the Black VRA 9th District, its only Dem seat. Shown below, the map splits Memphis and Nashville almost evenly into 3 districts each where white Republicans would outvote Black Dems in each city. Interactive map davesredistricting.org/join/2921405...

In January, @propublica.org wrote a story about the plight of Ciji Graham, a Black woman in North Carolina who died in 2023 waiting for an abortion. An NC senator recently filed a bill named after Graham that would help people with high-risk pregnancies get timely care, @lbonner.bsky.social reports.

The NC elections board hired a lawyer who was also suing it ncnewsline.com/2026/05/04/t...

NC’s infant mortality rate and drug overdose deaths declined in 2024 ncnewsline.com/2026/04/27/n...

A stalled bill to require better insurance coverage for breast cancer screenings led to a campaign that helped oust North Carolina’s most powerful politician. www.wunc.org/politics/202...

Trump administration investigation of Fed Chair Jerome Powell scrapped ncnewsline.com/2026/04/24/r...

NC elections board considers new rules for photo ID, polling places ncnewsline.com/2026/04/22/n...

The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

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...

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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