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Bishop undergoes Senate hearing for OMB deputy director

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a confirmation hearing Tuesday morning for former Republican North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop, the nominee for deputy White House budget director in the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Theresa Opeka
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Report: Nearly half a million illegal immigrants reside in NC

The United States, including North Carolina, is facing a growing number of serious issues due to the millions of illegal immigrants that have come into the country since President Joe Biden took office, and experts say the problems are likely to get a lot worse.

Theresa Opeka
Opinion

Sound of Freedom is an intriguing, disturbing film — not a QAnon flick

Last weekend while scrolling through the wasteland that is my Twitter feed, I stumbled upon a post that got my immediate attention. This tweet, from one of the various film-obsessed anonymous accounts I follow, mentioned a “QAnon movie” recently released in theaters nationwide. The QAnon movement, for those who aren’t familiar, is associated with hardcore...

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Samaritan’s Purse brings Christmas joy, relief to tornado-ravaged communities

Yuri Lopez was orphaned at the age of two and spent her childhood shifting between 14 orphanages in Honduras. But her life was transformed one Christmas when she received a shoebox filled with gifts from the North Carolina-based international Christian ministry Samaritan’s Purse. That’s when she “experienced hope for the very first time.” “Everything in...

David N. Bass
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Elected Officials and Regulators Block N.C. Entrepreneurs From Foreign Markets

RALEIGH — North Carolina economic development officials continue to tout overseas trade as an avenue to lift the state from its economic doldrums. But some business owners and elected officials believe federal policy has become an impediment to the growth of exports in manufacturing.

Sam A. Hieb
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Report Chides N.C. Lawmakers’ Voting Record on Trade

GREENSBORO — A recent Heritage Foundation report says North Carolina’s congressional delegation “seems to be rejecting” the state’s “long and honorable record of support for open markets,” much to the detriment of the many thousands of constituents who owe their jobs to free trade.

Sam A. Hieb
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Friday Interview: John Gizzi on American Politics

RALEIGH — American voters have elected a Democratic president who will work with larger Democratic majorities in the U.S. House and Senate in 2009. John Gizzi, who has covered Washington politics for Human Events since 1979, recently discussed the likely political and policy implications with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.

CJ Staff