The U.S. Department of Education is investigating Buncombe and Cabarrus County school districts over transgender student restroom use.

Senate Republicans passed a revenue bill despite controversy that it walks back a Trump administration research and development tax break.

Instead of expanding access to contraception, the focus of Title X will be “to strengthen family formation and assist clients in achieving healthy pregnancies,” according to the new guidance. That will align the program with the administration’s efforts to increase the U.S. birth rate.

A bill that would regulate electric bicycles in North Carolina and allow local governments to limit where they can be used is moving through the state Senate. 

Democrats are growing hopeful they can recapture the U.S. Senate in this fall’s midterm elections amid President Donald Trump’s plummeting approval ratings. But they still need nearly everything to break their way against a map that put them at a starting disadvantage, analysts and campaign officials say.

As the Trump administration increases the scale of its immigrant detention program, now up to 68,000 immigrants in custody, reports have surfaced of inhumane conditions and inadequate medical care at ICE detention facilities.

Coalitions opposed to H437 urge homeless service providers, local elected officials and others to share their concerns about the “unauthorized camping” ban under consideration in the North Carolina Senate.

Forty-six percent of U.S. adults — regardless of insurance type — reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank. The report analyzed findings from a December 2025 survey of 10,000 working-age adults across the nation.

Fears of troops or other federal agents at voting sites have long loomed over the approaching midterm elections in November. Democrats and voting rights advocates have grown alarmed in recent months as Trump has publicly entertained the possibility.

A new bill proposed by NC Senate Democrats would put constitutional amendments to legalize recreational and medical cannabis on the ballot. But its odds of getting a vote in the state Senate are not high.