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North Carolina is facing a looming deadline to find more funding to cover new federal work requirements for Medicaid.
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Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesTo date, 27 states have enacted laws barring transgender participation in sports. -
Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesAdams announced in May that he was dying of metastatic prostate cancer. Thousands of newspapers carried his strip satirizing office culture from the '90s until a controversy in 2023.
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The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University recently opened "Dis/orient," an exhibition that aims to confront long-held stereotypes about Asian people and culture by uplifting diverse forms of creative expression by various contemporary Asian diaspora artists. -
Congress passed the Real ID requirement in 2005 in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. -
Minnesota leaders are urging protesters to remain peaceful as marches against immigration enforcement spread across the country. -
North Carolina's hazard mapping program is trying to better predict which landslide-prone places face threats in future storms. The state's geological survey responded to more slides after Helene than it had between 1990 and 2023. -
The state plans to keep its childhood vaccination schedule, which includes required and recommended shots that are no longer part of federal guidelines. -
Two U.S. citizen brothers say Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers racially profiled and assaulted them earlier this week, as federal agents continue heightened immigration arrests in North Carolina. -
The U.S. Transportation Department says North Carolina could lose nearly $50 million in federal funding if the state doesn't revoke commercial driver's licenses from immigrants who aren't qualified to hold them. -
Protesters marched in Durham one day after an ICE officer shot Renee Good in Minnesota. -
Since Cary's former town manager has resigned over spending concerns, residents and leaders across the Triangle have questions surrounding how the town has spent its money. Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht says he wants to be more transparent to those with questions about what happened.
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We talk to the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency about his time in the Biden administration. The North Carolina native describes his greatest accomplishments and disappointments, watching advancements in environmental justice, climate regulations and job creation being rolled back by the Trump White House.
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