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NC’s Medicaid expansion program has enrolled 500,000 people in just 7 months
More than 500,000 North Carolina residents have enrolled in the state’s Medicaid expansion program since it went live about seven months ago, officials announced Friday.
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What to know about Donald Trump’s apparent assassination attempt
The Secret Service shot and killed the would-be assassin, identified as a 20-year-old from a Pittsburgh suburb not far from the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. One spectator was killed and two others were critically injured.
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Project 2025 would threaten women’s access to emergency contraception
Project 2025 specifically states that certain types of emergency contraception would be excluded from the no cost coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act should it be implemented.
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‘This should not be a partisan issue’: The political tug-of-war over rural NC broadband internet gaps
State and federal leaders say they’re making progress extending access into NC broadband internet gaps—mostly because of Biden infrastructure funding—but the Republican closure of an affordable broadband program for lower-income people threatens to dampen progress.
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In Greensboro, Kamala Harris denounces Project 2025, Trump’s call to ‘terminate’ the Constitution
Harris highlighted Trump’s intentions to further restrict reproductive rights and make healthcare more expensive.
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VIDEO: Senator says NC campaign finance is ‘totally out of control’
Recent legislation in North Carolina opened up the state for huge out-of-state spending on campaigns. A lawmaker sounds the alarm on NC campaign finance. Sen. Mary Wills Bode, a Democrat representing NC’s Granville and Wake counties, sounded the alarm on a recent episode of PBS NC’s “State Lines” about NC campaign finance reform, after recent…
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A Trump judge just blocked the ban of noncompete clauses
The FTC voted to ban noncompete agreements in April—those pesky clauses that employers often force their workers to sign which effectively bar them from starting their own business or finding a new job in the same field within a certain area or timeframe after leaving their current job.
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VIDEO: Dan Bishop is a ‘political extremist,’ NC Attorney General candidate Jeff Jackson warns
We spoke with Jeff Jackson, the Democratic candidate for NC attorney general, about his opponent, Dan Bishop. Jackson didn’t mince words.
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VIDEO: Kamala Harris speaks out on student debt forgiveness
Vice President Kamala Harris recently addressed the Biden-Harris administration’s take on college debt forgiveness.
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VIDEO: What Trump and Project 2025 could mean for NC
What would a second Trump administration look like? We don’t have to guess: He has told us very clearly. Check out Project 2025.
