FBI Director Kash Patel sidestepped questions about FBI agents at polling places in the midterm elections at a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday that also featured a tense exchange between GOP Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey.
The cost of U.S. military operations in Iran has exceeded $40 billion and the war will continue to cost taxpayers between $2 billion and $3 billion per month, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
North Carolina’s open Senate seat could be key to majority control of the upper chamber.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday kept in place a lower court’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s embattled plan to place new restrictions on mail ballots for this year’s midterm elections.
Jackson argued the separate class would prevent data centers from shifting energy costs to residential consumers.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will revoke limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that run on coal and natural gas, according to regulatory documents Administrator Lee Zeldin signed Monday.
https://media.blubrry.com/ncpolicywatch/ncnewsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/News-and-Views-for-9-13-2026-SegmentThree_ChrisBlue.mp3 One of the big problems confronting law enforcement departments in these politically charged times is the simple failure to communicate. And one of the main sources of this problem according to former Chapel Chief of Police Chris Blue is that law enforcement agencies often aren’t doing enough to affirmatively earn the trust of the…
NC State Health Plan reaches an agreement with Atrium Health to move some of its hospitals and clinics to a lower expense tier.
States, cities and counties filed a pair of lawsuits Monday challenging new federal rules that will allow immigrants’ use of safety net resources to be taken into account for green cards and other applications to stay in or enter the country.
September is Hunger Awareness month, and as you’ll hear in a special two-part conversation with Amy Beros of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina and Liz Reasoner of the Food Bank of the Albemarle, the hunger crisis in our state has seldom been more dire.