Guilford County officials questioned why House Republican leaders sat on S889 for five weeks, waiting to hear it until just days before most counties are required to approve new budgets.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit brought by 11 voters challenging partisan gerrymandering in the state.

The order and the rule require states to provide lists of mail-in voters if they want the Postal Service to deliver ballots, marking the first time the federal government has created a national voter list. Democratic states and voting rights groups argue the order is an illegal overreach by Trump because states administer elections under the U.S. Constitution.

The NC House canceled Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of a bill allowing the state to participate in a federal tax-credit voucher program.

Judge Leonie Brinkema in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a brief order halting the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department and other high-ranking administration officials from taking any additional actions to create the fund or make payments from it.

The 52-47 mostly party-line vote sends the measure to the House, where GOP lawmakers in that chamber could send it to President Donald Trump for his signature as soon as next week.

A multi-week cold snap this past winter sent utility bills soaring and caused more people in Charlotte to request help paying bills. 

The details of the final agreement have not been released publicly, though the administration official said last week that if Iranian leaders followed the steps, they would receive sanctions relief.

A federal judge Friday dismissed an indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was wrongly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Thursday to preserve telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone until after the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled on the merits of the high-stakes federal lawsuit Louisiana v. Food and Drug Administration.