SCOOP: ICE is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

DC is about to pick new leaders. Trump is watching.

Years before he was charged with child sex crimes, a tennis pro at an NC club faced similar charges in Florida. The club's owner was warned about his history. More here: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...

Republicans wrote "Iryna's Law" last year, in part, to crack down on pretrial release in NC. But now some sheriff's offices report that their jails are overfilled.

1/ Spurred by my reporting for @propublica.org, Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina have introduced a package of bills aimed at protecting traditional powers of the state’s governor and reforming oversight of its court system. #ncpol www.propublica.org/article/nort...

I’ve read this story a few times now, and every time I do, I’m just as stunned. Republicans on Jackson County’s election board say their own party and the state auditor pressured them to block an early voting site on a college campus: nclocal.org/2026/06/03/j...

Immigrant detainees across at least 33 states allege in court documents that the government is failing to provide them with adequate medical care.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche wouldn’t rule out the possibility that rioters who attacked police at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, could receive payments from a new $1.8 billion taxpayer fund being created by the Justice Department.

When it formed in 2021, many saw NC's Juvenile Sentence Review Board as a real pathway to freedom for juvenile lifers and others sentenced to long prison terms for crimes they were convicted of committing as teens. It turns out, most were denied. for @boltsmag.org boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

DOJ has filed dozens of lawsuits against immigrants in courts across the country seeking payment for billions in civil immigration penalties.

Brian Kemp’s move makes Georgia latest southern state to initiate map-making after dismantling of Voting Rights Act

New: Inmates at the Mecklenburg County jail tell me they're having to sleep on bunks on the floor because of overcrowding. The sheriff says that overcrowding is the result of "Iryna's Law," which Republicans in Raleigh authored and Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed late last year.

The Wall Street Journal has received subpoenas for records of reporters, as Trump’s attack on the free press continues www.wsj.com/politics/nat... (gift link)

North Carolina lawmakers are looking into the death of a Mecklenburg County girl through legislation, potential House Oversight hearing.

The double take I did thinking this was East Carolina University

“The president needs to be very forceful, not just in his language, but in his actions,” Sen. Ted Budd said.

Civil liberties and democracy advocates sued the Trump administration in federal court, alleging a policy allowing immigration agents to enter homes without a judicial warrant violates federal law and the Constitution.

Here’s how many projects the state says are still under construction.

BREAKING: In a 4-3 ruling, North Carolina's Supreme Court has overturned its 2022 ruling in the Leandro lawsuit, a long-standing school funding case that began in 1994. #ncpol

Local officials held an event to talk about preventing child abuse. But when @jeff-a-chamer.bsky.social asked about a horrible child abuse case from just months ago, and the public records in the case that they're withholding, they didn't have much to say:

‘Where’s my dad?’ girls ask after ICE arrests man outside Charlotte health office | By @oehrli.bsky.social www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

“You’re looking at the same polls I am,” Tillis said. “You’d have to be blind not to see some of the headwinds that Republicans have going into November.” Read more from @daniellebattaglia.bsky.social in her deep dive on Sen. Thom Tillis unleashed #ncpol www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

New: Who will succeed Berger as Senate leader? Who’s interested and what they’ll face #ncpol #ncga www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

So far, only a small percentage of troops from North Carolina have been involved in the Middle East fighting. www.wunc.org/military/202...

for @nclocal.bsky.social I mapped where ICE is currently operating in North Carolina and where they're looking to expand, relying on great reporting from @theassemblync.bsky.social, @ncnewsline.com, @charlotteobserver.com, @wfae.bsky.social, @wired.com, etc to track it nclocal.org/2026/03/10/w...

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

In an interview with AP, Renee Good's family remembers how she loved sparkles and laughter and any excuse for a celebration. She was “slow to anger, quick to love, quick to care,” said her father, Tim Ganger. “That’s the essence of who she was.” bit.ly/4l0DViP

North Carolina elections officials used to avoid participating in partisan campaigns. No more: Republicans who run the elections process are out stumping for party peers, including state auditor David Boliek, who now appoints elections board members. ncnewsline.com/2026/02/25/n...

Luis Duque was driving his parter, Oscar, to work Wednesday when ICE agents stopped them and took Oscar.

Missing evidence, including a dog bowl, has thrown a wrench in the case of two Charlotte protesters accused of assaulting DHS officers.

At a Feb. 16 press conference, Sheriff Garry McFadden said he would put together a budget request to reopen Jail North. Two days later, he told the county manager privately that he had "no intentions of submitting a budget request," according to emails I obtained.

Former patients and their loved ones say North Carolina doctor with a string of malpractice settlements should face more accountability.

“Its rural setting offers a secure operational environment with minimal community disruption while ensuring proximity to key transportation networks and regional support services,” GEO Group told ICE in a pitch later published by the ACLU.

Border Patrol’s Bovino could come back to Charlotte - this time on witness stand www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...

CMPD said officers followed policy before light rail stabbing. They didn’t. | By @juliacoin.bsky.social (Gift link) www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

BREAKING: Journalist Don Lemon is arrested after a protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

Killings in Minneapolis ‘absolutely deplorable,’ Charlotte’s congresswoman says | By @oehrli.bsky.social www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

Some people wait days and sleep outside Charlotte’s DHS office to make their appointments: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

U.S. Senate candidate and former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper called for “immediate reforms” before any additional funding for ICE and Border Patrol operations following the deaths of two Minneapolis activists during altercations with federal agents.

Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced

The raid on the home of @washingtonpost.com’s @hannahnatanson.bsky.social is a reminder journalists need to be vigilant. We can’t stop government overreach — but we can help you secure yourself digitally. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social share tips that can make a real difference for journalists.

‘Turn off your video’: ICE agents tell NC men to quit recording traffic stop | By @oehrli.bsky.social www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...

Hunt grew up on a dairy farm in the tiny Rock Ridge community outside Wilson, and biographer and longtime aide Gary Pearce says that experience got him interested in politics at an early age. www.wunc.org/2025-12-18/j...

To many, the staff at Carolina Migrant Network are heroes. Their alerts warned people where Border Patrol was during Operation Charlotte’s Web. But the small team said they don’t feel heroic. They just tried their hardest: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...

Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y

After people they knew were arrested, they did what they could to help their community, they said.