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Award-winning singer-musician and North Carolina native Rhiannon Giddens has become the latest artist to call off an appearance at the Kennedy Center, which has been in upheaval since President Donald Trump took office. -
The decision to not fast track the challenge is likely to benefit the republican candidate Jefferson Griffin, who trails incumbent justice Allison Riggs, a democrat. Riggs' electoral lead has been confirmed by multiple recounts, but Griffin is seeking to have tens of thousands of votes disqualified. -
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey is out of the hospital 10 days after undergoing heart surgery. The Republican underwent what his department called "elective" surgery to "correct a congenital heart defect" discovered in late 2023. First elected commissioner in 2016, he won a third four-year term this past November. -
People who lost their homes to Hurricane Helene or California wildfires could get a sizeable tax break to move to Wisconsin. -
President Donald Trump's suggestion about "getting rid of" the nation's disaster relief agency doesn't sound like a bad idea for some residents of western North Carolina who are still navigating the long recovery process from Hurricane Helene. -
North Carolina House members have advanced a Republican package to boost state recovery funding after Hurricane Helene by another $500 million. -
The North Carolina base was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 as part of a national effort under the Biden administration to remove names that honored Confederate leaders. The base’s original namesake, Gen. Braxton Bragg, was a Confederate general. -
New North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein is suing again over more recent laws from state Republicans that erode gubernatorial powers. The Democratic governor filed a lawsuit against House Speaker Destin Hall and Senate leader Phil Berger late last week. -
A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009. Hasson Bacote was among a group of 15 death row inmates whose sentences were recently commuted to life without parole by outgoing North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper. -
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action Tuesday afternoon, minutes before it was set to go into effect. The administrative stay pauses the freeze until Monday.
