North Carolina high schoolers show improvements in mental health
After years of focus on mental health, the latest survey of students appears to show that North Carolina high school students are doing better.
August 2026
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Trump again tries to curb birthright citizenship, following Supreme Court loss
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders in his second attempt to deny citizenship to babies born to noncitizens, following the Supreme Court’s defeat this summer of an earlier order to redefine birthright citizenship.
States begin banning ‘surveillance pricing’ that uses personal data to charge more
Three states this year became the first ones to enact laws restricting companies from using personal data such as browsing history or shopping habits to set individualized prices on goods and services, a practice known as surveillance pricing. The laws in Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey take a different approach to which retailers and products they cover, the discounts they allow and how violations are enforced.
US Senate panel votes to hold Fauci in contempt for declining to answer COVID questions
Republicans on a U.S. Senate panel voted Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he declined to answer any questions at a hearing last week about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
US Senate stopgap fails to renew more than $38B a year in state transportation funding
The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, which authorized highway and transit programs for five years, expires Sept. 30. Roughly $38.6 billion per year in extra federal transportation funding is set to expire with it, even if the continuing resolution the Senate advanced 89-4 Monday becomes law.
More states ban child marriage, though it’s still legal in most of the US
Advocates for ending child marriage point to research that has found lifelong consequences for those involved, including greater vulnerability to sexual and domestic violence, worse health outcomes, higher likelihood of dropping out of high school, greater risk of poverty and higher divorce rates.
Trump administration threatens to gut Head Start rules
The Trump administration appears poised to gut the central policies that shape Head Start, a popular and long-established early childhood education program that serves the country’s neediest children, including thousands in California.
As federal protections fade, disabled Americans fear a return to institutions
Disability advocates around the country are fighting a surge of federal and state actions that have eroded protections meant to keep people with disabilities living and working in their communities, rather than in institutions.
Inside the secretive deal for a $10 billion data center in rural North Carolina
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Read more NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson joins two dozen states in lawsuit over new Trump tariffs HAMLET, N.C.—Steel skeletons of two-story buildings jut from the landscape strewn with…
NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson joins two dozen states in lawsuit over new Trump tariffs
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson has joined 24 Democratic-led states in suing the Trump administration over the latest round of sweeping tariffs.