Interesting

More than 2,600 people sued Chemours and DuPont over PFAS contamination. After eight years, the trial won’t move forward.

Darline Graham Nordone will finish out the term of her older brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, who adopted and raised her following their parents’ deaths.

President Donald Trump “acted in bad faith” when he swiftly dropped his tax return lawsuit and directed his Cabinet members to establish a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, a federal judge in Florida ruled Monday.

The Trump administration is continuing its pushback against state artificial intelligence laws that it views as ideologically biased, proposing a new Federal Trade Commission policy. The proposed policy statement, which is open for public comment through July 31, would affect how the FTC regulates AI companies.

One of the nation’s largest rural hospital operators is Lifepoint Healthcare, a company owned by private equity giant Apollo Global Management. Last year, a bipartisan U.S. Senate Budget Committee investigation found that underinvestment in a Lifepoint hospital in rural Iowa led to deteriorating conditions and worsening patient care even as Apollo investors made millions.

resident Donald Trump announced Monday he would like the South Carolina governor to select the late U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sister to fill the Republican’s seat for the remainder of his term.

State legislators packed a lot of new laws into the budget bill, and we’ll discuss some of them as well as some other late legislative session developments in a two-part conversation with NC Newsline reporter, Brandon Kingdollar.

North Carolina finally has a new state budget, and we’ll discuss what it does and doesn’t do for the public servants on whom we all depend in a conversation with the executive director of the State Employees Association of North Carolina, Ardis Watkins

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a July 2 panel decision requiring bond hearings for immigrants held under the Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy.

North Carolina’s new budget bars State Board of Education members from taking interim or temporary school jobs. It’s unclear who requested the provision or why.