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.

In 2024-25, while the United States saw a small overall decline in homelessness, North Carolina was moving rapidly in the other direction.

Whether NC House and Senate members will have a budget deal by mid-June remains to be seen, but as the 2026 hurricane season kicks off, recovery from 2024’s Hurricane Helene is still not fully funded.

The North Carolina legislature could soon take up a 50% excise tax on “prurient” and “obscene” sexual material harmful to minors.