Time is running out for Trump’s administration to successfully place the restrictions on vote-by-mail before November’s midterm elections, 99 days from Monday. The 1st Circuit panel pointed to the approaching midterms as a reason to block the order for now.
Thousands of local service providers and volunteers are working hard to keep communities functioning and we’ll talk to two of them — Sara Walker and Melissa Evers of Wake County Meals on Wheels –
https://media.blubrry.com/ncpolicywatch/ncnewsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/News-and-Views-for-7-26-2026-ChrisCooper-Pt1and2.mp3 With the 2026 midterm elections less than 100 days away, it a great time to check in with one of the state’s foremost experts on politics and elections, Western Carolina University Professor of Political Science, Chris Cooper. Read more Trump urges US Senate to hold off on August recess until SAVE America Act passes…
Trump wrote in a social media post that he wanted Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to keep the chamber open, preventing vulnerable Republicans facing reelection from the campaign trail, to pass a voter identification bill, among other measures.
On its website, GEO Group recently published a job posting for a “facility maintenance manager” for Rivers Correctional Institution in Hertford County, a privately owned prison that has been empty for five years.
Since President Donald Trump has gutted much of the federal government’s consumer protection work, state attorneys general are increasingly left to fight high prices and investigate businesses themselves. The change follows Trump’s dismantling of the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau and persisting concerns about the high prices of housing, groceries and fuel.
The suit says the administration violated a federal privacy law, administrative law and the First Amendment by targeting people who observed and protested aggressive immigration enforcement, including during the deadly operation in Minneapolis in January.
A group of current and former U.S. Department of Agriculture employees are calling on the Trump administration to halt the mandated relocation of more than 2,500 employees from its Washington, D.C., headquarters to five regional offices across the country.
North Carolinians pay more than many Americans for healthcare. The state ranks 38th nationally in healthcare access and affordability, according to a 2025 scorecard by the Commonwealth Fund.
Measles cases this year have surpassed all of 2025 to become the worst since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, with cases now in 44 states and the District of Columbia, according to a federal report released Friday.