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Freed Hamas hostage from NC meets First Lady at White House
Hamas seized 251 hostages, including Keith and his wife, Aviva Siegel. Keith was a North Carolina expatriate living in Israel and grew up in Chapel Hill.
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Federal, NC lawmakers mark 2nd anniversary of Oct. 7 attack
Tuesday, federal and state officials marked the second anniversary of Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel that left 1,200 people dead and 251 taken hostage, issuing statements in remembrance of the tragedy.
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Durham Jewish community commemorates Oct. 7 victims
Local Jewish Community holds commemoration to mark the first anniversary of 10/7.
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NC leaders mark anniversary of Oct.7 attacks in Israel
State and federal lawmakers honor the first anniversary of 10/7.
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Tillis and Budd demand White House ends arms embargo to Israel
Sens. Thom Tillis and Ted Budd, R-NC, along with 47 Republican Senate colleagues, recently sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris calling to lift the administration's partial arms embargo against Israel. This follows their resolution in May condemning the Biden Administration for withholding aid to Israel.
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UNC protesters remove American flag and fly Palestinian flag; chancellor personally puts it back up
Tuesday on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, protesters broke through police barricades to lower the American flag in the main quad and fly the flag of Palestine instead. Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts then walked to the quad surrounded by law enforcement officers to put the American flag back up. Counter-protesters surrounded the flagpole and chanted "USA," thanking Roberts for his intervention.
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Budd updates media on North Carolinian held by Hamas
Republican North Carolina U.S. Sen. Ted Budd gave an update Tuesday about the situation involving the hostages, including North Carolina native Keith Siegel, being held by Hamas in Gaza, during a phone call with the media.
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Budd says North Carolinians among those being held by Hamas
On Wednesday, North Carolina Republican Sen. Ted Budd called for a halt to any humanitarian aid to Gaza until every American hostage, including those from North Carolina, are home safe.
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NC Democratic Party under fire for anti-Israel party platform resolutions
The North Carolina State Democratic Party is under fire for a number of anti-Israel resolutions that were considered at their convention held in Durham on June 18.
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Friday Interview: The Perils of Bad Information
RALEIGH — If you’ve ever heard the idea that bad money, or cheap money, chases good money out of circulation, you’ve heard a description of Gresham’s Law. Dan Henninger, deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, says that same law seems to apply to information as well. He discussed his theory of a Gresham’s Law of information with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
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Churchill on Islamic Fundamentalism
RALEIGH — Winston S. Churchill III maintains that Islamic fundamentalism is as destructive as the malevolent "isms" of the 20th century: Nazism, Communism and Facism. In a speech on recently at the John Locke Foundation's anniversary dinner, the grandson of Winston Churchill urged the West to stay the course in the fight against extremist Islam.
