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Republicans in the state Senate want to crack down on recent protests by restricting the use of masks in public. The new bill also would create a felony offense for blocking traffic.
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The high-stakes legal battle could determine the future of the popular app in the U.S. TikTok's legal filing calls the ban law an unprecedented violation of First Amendment rights.
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Northwestern, Brown, Rutgers and University of Minnesota are among the handful of schools that have reached agreements with student protesters. Here's how they did it, and what could come next.
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A trial over a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s photo voter identification law has started. The trial began in Winston-Salem on Monday, more than five years after the NAACP sued over the voter ID law enacted by the Republican-dominated General Assembly.
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WUNC's Brian Burns chats with Kamasi Washington about his new record 'Fearless Movement.'
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians in an Easter address to be united in prayer and called God an "ally" in the war with Russia.
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A wide region was swamped from Houston to rural East Texas, where game wardens rode airboats through waist-high waters rescuing both people and pets.
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Friends, colleagues and the wife of fallen Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Joshua Eyer are remembering him as a hard-charging outwardly stern cop who also peppered friends with "how's things" texts and showered love on his wife and young son. Thousands packed the sanctuary at Charlotte's First Baptist Church on Friday for Eyer's memorial service.
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United Methodist delegates have repealed their church's longstanding ban on the celebrations of same-sex marriages or unions by its clergy. The action marked the final major repeal of a half-century's collection of LGBTQ bans and disapprovals that were embedded in the laws and social teachings of the United Methodist Church.
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President Joe Biden has met privately with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Religion and sexuality are often pitted against one another...so where does that leave folks who seek attunement and education for both?
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A decline in hunters and a deadly disease are threatening the foundation of our wildlife management system.
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State lawmakers are back in Raleigh to begin what’s known as the short session – several months in which they’ll make adjustments to the state budget for the upcoming year and consider a variety of other legislation that didn’t make it across the finish line in the 2023 long session. One of the biggest partisan battles is likely to be over education funding: How much of the state's projected revenue surplus will go to public schools, and how much will address high demand for private school vouchers? Will the state address the funding cliff that childcare centers are experiencing as federal pandemic money expires?To sort through the issues facing lawmakers, WUNC's Colin Campbell spoke with Sen. Gale Adcock, D-Wake. Adcock, a longtime nurse practitioner, also discusses the state's healthcare policy needs in the months following the expansion of the Medicaid program.
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Something Special for you all: an episode from "Me and My Muslim Friends," featuring Sameera Qureshi. She is a therapist and founder of Sexual Health for Muslims. Her approach to sex education, therapy, and health is grounded in the Islamic framework and the Islamic understanding of the soul. Unfortunately, most Muslims don’t have access to a comprehensive sex education growing up. Host Yasmin Bendaas and Sameera dive into the consequences of that and talk about some of the most common issues Sameera hears in her counseling practice.
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Three doctors talk with co-host Leoneda Inge about an audio archive they've all contributed to that captures reproductive health history, happening now. We also talk about the disproportionate impact of abortion restrictions on historically-marginalized populations.
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Religion and sexuality are often pitted against one another...so where does that leave folks who seek attunement and education for both?
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