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In the New Year, 11 new laws will take effect in North Carolina. Changes include a plan to make sure that soy milk, almond milk, coconut milk and other plant-based products don’t use the word “milk” on consumer labels.
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Strong holiday sales have buoyed the nation’s retailers this year in a trend that is also reflected in North Carolina store, whether online, brick-and-mortar or hybrids.
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North Carolina’s General Assembly returns to Raleigh on Thursday to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of its bill that would make investigations into campaign finance violations confidential.
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A march in downtown Raleigh on Sunday organized by El Pueblo, the NAACP and the Poor People’s Campaign used a nativity scene as a metaphor to symbolize the struggles of immigrants and access to equal college tuition.
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Mark Meadows, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, rallied House Republicans to fight for border wall funding — in one last show of leverage before Democrats take the chamber next month.
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The North Carolina legislature’s weeks of mostly no-vote sessions in January and February cost taxpayers about $500,000 in per diem payments to lawmakers.
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We answer questions about a federal government shutdown and its effect on North Carolina. Can I travel or will RDU Airport be closed? Will post offices be open? Will I get my Social Security check and food stamps?
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In 2017, the NC State Board of Elections sent a letter to the US Attorney warning it had evidence that suggests “efforts to manipulate elections results through the absentee ballot process” in Bladen County.
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More than 500,000 people enrolled in Affordable Care Act plans for 2019, and the federal government is still counting people who signed up. Big rate cuts by Blue Cross helped push up enrollment totals.
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NC Republican legislators won a power struggle lawsuit by Democratic Governor Roy Cooper, who had said the North Carolina Senate shouldn’t be able to vet and confirm his nominees for state government jobs.
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Partisan gerrymandering cases challenging North Carolina legislative and congressional districts proceed ahead of 2020 elections. SCOTUS arguments could be scheduled in early 2019 for a federal case.
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The state elections board has extended its investigation into questions about absentee ballots to Columbus County, focusing in part on a contested sheriff’s race that has yet to be certified.
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Why didn’t the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics not move more aggressively after a 2016 investigation showed possible absentee ballot tampering by McCrae Dowless? The Bladen County GOP wants answers.
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The House Freedom Caucus and other conservatives are urging President Donald Trump not to sign a spending bill that would avert a government shutdown because it has no money for his border wall.
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A law enacted Wednesday requiring voters show acceptable photo identification when they go to the polls by Thursday was already being challenged in state and federal courts.
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There have been Pants on Fire claims this year on the border wall, constitutional amendments, 9/11 theories, mass shooters, the gun control March for our Lives and Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford.
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McCrae Dowless, a Bladen County political operative, paid workers to collect absentee ballots and return them to him before the 2016 election, witnesses told state board of election investigators.
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The NC House voted to override Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of voter ID, the final step in enacting the law. North Carolina voters will be asked to show photo ID next year, barring intervention by a court.
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