More than 60 cities, counties and fire departments say the country’s three biggest fire truck manufacturers have conspired to suppress competition, resulting in skyrocketing prices for fire trucks and repair parts and years-long manufacturing delays.

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.

North Carolina lawmakers welcomed the championship Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday, who came bearing the Stanley Cup.

A bill to regulate North Carolina’s burgeoning cryptocurrency ATM industry was approved by the state Senate Tuesday, setting it up for a final House vote later this week.

Republicans are campaigning to keep control of Congress for another two years, but their message about being the “grown-ups” in the room keeps getting overshadowed by public feuds that have sidetracked work on major legislation.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 53,000 for the first time this week, a milestone celebrated by Wall Street investors. But a leading Kenan-Flagler Business School economist says a closer look at the latest economic data shows a clear disconnect in how many consumers are viewing and experiencing the American economy.

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.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent rescheduling of medical cannabis will help those marijuana businesses. Companies will be able to claim some federal tax benefits. New research can start up at state universities. But the broader divide between federal and state marijuana policy remains largely intact, leaving states to navigate a fragmented landscape with few clear answers about what comes next.

The nonpartisan, nonprofit Keep Our Republic will host forums on election administration around NC leading up to the 2026 general election.

A majority of the justices upheld the country’s long understanding of automatic citizenship by birth on American soil, regardless of the immigration status of a newborn’s parents. The opinion, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., found the president’s executive order violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.