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Democrats say the law would mean people who mask for their health would violate the law. Republicans say the bill is only focused on people who mask as a means to conceal their identity.

Former President Donald Trump backed Knott in early April. Weeks later, Daughtry suspended her campaign, but it was too late to remove her name from the ballot. Knott now takes on Democrat Frank Pierce in November.

For the first time in more than a decade, polling places throughout North Carolina will open Tuesday for a statewide primary runoff election.

Republican primary voters are headed back to the polls next Tuesday for a rare statewide runoff election for lieutenant governor and state auditor.

The CEO of an online educational gaming company donated more than $40,000 combined to the North Carolina Republican Party. Around the same time, his company, Plasma Games, received $6.3 million in state funding to put its science platform in schools. Now, state education officials say more than half the funds are going unused by schools.

Early in-person voting has started across North Carolina for next month's runoff elections, including one congressional and two statewide primary contests.

A law enacted last year requires 10 counties to test software for verifying voters' signatures on absentee ballot envelopes.

The decision Monday from the three-judge panel handed a significant setback to legislative Republicans seeking to wrest those decisions from the governor.

Michael Whatley, the chairman of North Carolina's Republican Party, has been named by Donald Trump as his pick to lead the Republican National Committee.

In recent years, many Lumbees have helped shift Robeson County politically from a place with a reliable majority for the Democratic Party to a county that largely supports Republicans. A push for federal recognition for the tribe is one of the factors.