The North Carolina Education Lottery, now 20 years old, continues to set new records, but officials say future success may depend on increasing visibility, national jackpot games, and retaining lottery employees.

Former Gov. Roy Cooper is the third leading fundraiser of the 2026 U.S. Senate midterms with roughly $35 million this cycle.

Upcoming funding shifts in the federal food stamp program are poised to cost states billions of dollars, heightening fears that more Americans will lose access to the nation’s largest food assistance program. Beginning in fall 2027, states for the first time must begin to fund some SNAP benefits themselves. Analyses of newly released data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows states could be on the hook for more than $9 billion.

The NC House canceled Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of a bill allowing the state to participate in a federal tax-credit voucher program.

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a new ruling that guts the federal Voting Rights Act, and we’ll dig into the details what this means for our democracy in a special two-part conversation with Southern Coalition for Social Justice Senior Counsel, Chris Shenton

The share of young children in the U.S. under age 6 who were uninsured increased 23% between 2022 and 2024, according to a new report from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families.

The North Carolina Department of Commerce estimates that data centers could soon cost the state $450 million a year under current tax exemptions.

President Donald Trump directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to resume traffic stops Wednesday, reversing a one-day pause on the policy after officers killed two immigrants who were in their vehicles in Texas and Maine.

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.

Trump had been scheduled to sign the bill, which passed the Senate Monday and House Tuesday with wide margins, during a Capitol ceremony. But in a pair of social media posts prior to the event, he derided the overhaul aimed at lowering housing costs as “minor” before refusing to sign it entirely.