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By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson sued CNN on Tuesday over its recent report that he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board, calling the reporting reckless and defamatory. The lawsuit, filed in Wake County Superior Court,
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TOUCH, The Black Breast Cancer Alliance (TOUCHBBCA) and Unite for HER have launched Care for HER, a campaign aimed at addressing health disparities among Black breast cancer patients through integrative care and culturally tailored nurse navigation services—all at no personal cost. Care for HER, which launched this October during
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By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press The Biden-Harris administration announced plans Tuesday to provide up to $750 million in direct funding to Wolfspeed, with the money supporting its new silicon carbide factory in North Carolina that makes the wafers used in advanced computer chips and its factory in Marcy, New
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promises the biggest deportation event the U.S. has ever seen if he is elected — a promise he has predicated, in part, on the notion that immigrants in the U.S. legally and illegally are stealing what he calls “Black
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Business owners can gain resources and insights to help their ventures grow at Durham Leveling Up: Scaling Your Business Through Opportunity and Collaboration, a free town hall hosted by Mayor Leonardo Williams. The event will be held at North Carolina Central University’s new School of Business, 829 E. Lawson
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By ALI SWENSON, Associated Press You’ve heard the horror stories: Someone casting multiple ballots, people voting in the name of dead relatives, mail-in ballots being intercepted. Voter fraud does happen occasionally. When it does, we tend to hear a lot about it. It also gets caught and prosecuted.
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By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press No one is likely to be happy with the projected higher deficits laid out in a new analysis of Kamala Harris’ and Donald Trump’s economic plans. The analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget suggests a Harris presidency could
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By COLLEEN LONG and AYANNA ALEXANDER, Associated Press Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris pledged ongoing federal support and praised the work of strangers helping strangers as she visited North Carolina on Saturday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, her second trip in four days to the disaster zone. The vice
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press Over the last four years, President Joe Biden has jetted off to survey damage and console victims after tornadoes, wildfires, and tropical storms. It’s not a role that Kamala Harris has played as vice president. But on Wednesday, they will both
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By Anne Blythe and Will Atwater, North Carolina Health News Sept. 30, 2024 The powerful remnants of Hurricane Helene that deluged western North Carolina with fierce winds and raging stormwaters left a wide swath of the state in desperate need of potable water. As of early Sunday afternoon, 145 water