A new documentary from WRAL TV looks at the rapid and troubling spread of so-called news deserts, and we’ll learn more from award-winning journalist and program producer, Cristin Severance.
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.
House Republican leaders did not advance the measure Wednesday after Tuesday’s protests at the legislature, saying it needs additional work.
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t appear to secure the support needed to take over the public health agency during a lengthy and often tense confirmation hearing Wednesday.
We dig into some of what the new state budget does and doesn’t do – as well as several other recent developments at the state legislature in a special two-part conversation with Durham County State Representative Marcia Morey..
Duke University plans to build a small data center at Central Campus, potentially the first of several similar-size projects, which has raised questions among some faculty about whether the energy- and water-intensive endeavors could derail the institution’s climate commitments.
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 Trump administration has argued that TPS has become a “de facto asylum program” and that conditions in Haiti have improved enough to end the designation. It appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court in March, and the justices heard oral arguments on an emergency basis.
About 20% of the world’s oil passed through the strait prior to the war. But reopening the strait would be unlikely to suddenly bring prices down.
The Republican-led U.S. Senate served up a rare public check on President Donald Trump’s agenda Tuesday when it voted to approve a House-passed War Powers Resolution to end hostilities in Iran. Senate approval marked the first time both chambers have agreed in a rebuke of Trump over his war in Iran.