“This flag does not represent the North Carolina that we love. America 250 is about unity and bringing our nation together,” a spokesperson for N.C. Gov. Josh Stein wrote. “We are pleased the flag that did the opposite has now been taken down.”

After voting no seven times, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., flipped and cast the deciding vote to advance a War Powers Resolution to rein in President Donald Trump’s war in Iran without authorization from Congress.

North Carolina is the latest member of a growing group of Republican-led states to require their public health agencies to flag recipients of Medicaid to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security if their legal status is in question.

State governments should shoulder more of the cost and responsibility for natural disaster recovery, according to a report released Thursday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency review council.

A Democratic-aligned political group is launching a $2.3 million ad campaign targeting Whatley over his ties to sex offender Harvey West.

The decision halts, at least until a nearly certain appeal is heard, efforts by the U.S. Postal Service to require states to submit the names of likely mail voters before it delivers ballots. It also stops the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from compiling lists of voting-age citizens in each state.

The budget allocates a total of $22 million to the North Carolina Collaboratory at UNC-Chapel Hill for research related to PFAS.

The measure is up against opposition from the powerful Big Ten and Southeastern conferences, and faces a narrow legislative window as Congress rushes toward its summer recess and the fall campaign season.

In the four years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, access to all abortion in more than a dozen states has dramatically decreased. During that same time, some clinics have expanded later abortion offerings, and advocates are pushing for many of the 21 states that have bans after 18 weeks to drop them

States and cities are loosening building code requirements in an effort to lower construction costs and boost affordable housing. Some of these changes include allowing apartment buildings to have just one stairway, reducing how often building codes are updated and rolling back specific electrical or fire safety standards. But critics have raised safety concerns, noting that rules were shaped by past tragedies and aim to prevent future harm.