U.S. Rep. Ted Budd now leads the pack in the Republican primary for the open U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina, according to a new Civitas Poll of likely GOP voters released Thursday, April 7. Budd won 32% support, compared to 21% support for former Gov. Pat McCrory and 7% for former U.S. Rep. Mark...
UPDATED on Thursday, April 7. The U.S. Senate voted, 53-47, to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, to the U.S. Supreme Court. She becomes the court’s 116th justice and the first Black woman to serve on the bench. The confirmation came after a 15-minute delay of waiting for Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, to appear in...
In late March, a super PAC started by U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s 2020 Democrat opponent, Moe Davis, endorsed Wendy Nevarez in the Republican primary for N.C.’s 11th Congressional District. The American Muckrakers PAC — also known as the Fire Madison Cawthorn PAC — encouraged Democrats to switch their affiliation to unaffiliated and vote for Nevarez. ...
Jennifer Pride, a language arts teacher in the Heritage Middle School, Wake Forest, can’t say enough good things about the WakeEd Partnership’s Tools4Schools store in Cary. “Things that I would normally have to pick up on my own or ask my school for, they are offering it to us free of charge,” she said. “Every...
On Tuesday morning, day two gets underway of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, to the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer who has served on the Supreme Court since 1994. She would also be the first black woman to serve...
Republicans in the N.C. General Assembly are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to limit state court oversight over future congressional redistricting. Republicans filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the court, asserting the Democrat-controlled state Supreme Court violated the elections clause of the U.S. Constitution when they invalidated the legislature’s congressional maps and imposed...
Unions and their Democrat supporters have eyed North Carolina’s strong economy and manufacturing industry for years, but lately the heat has been turning up amid COVID business lockdowns, labor shortages, and a looming 2022 election. North Carolina is a Right to Work state, meaning there is a law on the books that bans employers from...
Nearly half a billion dollars in first-time unemployment benefits in North Carolina were not paid out in a timely manner during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s according to an audit released from State Auditor Beth Wood’s office on Monday. The Division of Employment Security didn’t issue $438 million of first unemployment benefit payments during...
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Editor’s note: This article has been updated since it was posted to include a link to the image of a Russian tank posted on Ebay being flagged as “misinformation” by the Poynter Institute. Battlefield wedding ceremonies; a Ukrainian farmer stealing a Russian tank with his tractor; Ukrainian mothers and children fleeing to find a line of...
While Western civilization caps its oil wells, its enemies see the opening and are stepping up to cash in, economically and politically.
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