The agreements — also made with the departments of Health and Human Services, State, Treasury, Interior and Justice — are a main part of the plan by the Trump administration to axe the 46-year-old Education Department.
Senate Bill 1018, which has bipartisan backing, would establish a Breakthrough Therapies Research (BTR) Grant Fund and appropriate $5.4 million to study psychedelic medicines to treat military veterans, first responders and other trauma-impacted populations.
The White House says China has committed to buying at least $17 billion in additional U.S. agricultural products annually for three years. But Beijing has not confirmed the figure, and farm groups expressed skepticism that the deal would materialize.
Dallas Woodhouse has been reassigned from his job as elections liaison in the NC Auditor’s office after controversy over his role in early voting plans.
An NC Senate bill with hospital healthcare staff whistleblower protections advanced Thursday, but a provision requiring state oversight of hospital mergers was removed.
A Senate committee advanced a bill to prohibit local governments from adopting a property tax rate exceeding the revenue-neutral tax rate.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened on Friday to prosecute election officials in states that don’t “participate in securing the elections” ahead of the November midterms.
Shirlye Grandy served nearly six years in the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women. She’s now the public arts project coordinator for Arise Collective, a Raleigh nonprofit dedicated to helping incarcerated women across the state.
As appeals courts split on the constitutionality of mandatory detention for millions of immigrants, the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to decide the matter. A Trump administration policy threatening imprisonment without bond has been struck down by two appeals courts, which could soon be joined by a third, but upheld by two others.
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.