North Carolina Democratic leaders say the public needs to know who pressured Republicans on the Jackson County Board of Elections to oppose a campus early voting site at WCU.
Republicans pushed a modified version of Senate Bill 730, now titled the “Ratepayer Protection Act,” through the NC House this week, quickly sending it to their colleagues in the upper chamber.
North Carolina lawmakers want to require schools to allow off-campus religious instruction, and defended earmarking $10M for an AI tutoring program its own creator says hasn’t met his expectations.
Four Republicans voted with all Democrats to adopt the strongest rebuke to date of Trump’s handling of the months-long war that has left more than a dozen military troops dead, killed thousands of Iranian civilians and disrupted global supply chains of fertilizer and oil with the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz.
Senators advanced a bill to ban users 13 and under from “addictive” social media apps, despite concerns over government overreach.
North Carolina will participate in a federal tax-credit scholarship program after the state Senate voted to override Gov. Josh Stein’s veto.
The bill would prohibit software developers from designing, training, or modifying AI systems for use in healthcare coding if the AI system is designed to “promote, incentivize or result in upcoding.”
Republican members of the Jackson County Board of Elections say they were told by party leaders to vote against a campus polling place at Western Carolina.
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission, the only federal agency dedicated solely to helping states and localities run smooth and secure elections, operates on a meager budget. And U.S. House Republicans have signaled they want sizable further cuts.
An analysis by Harvard Law School’s Animal Law and Policy Clinic concluded that the Save Our Bacon Act could affect more than 600 state agricultural regulations, including seafood labeling requirements, food safety regulations and state restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of pests and diseases, such as the New World screwworm.