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Appeals Court rules attempted armed bank robbery is violent crime
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals used a North Carolina case Monday to clarify that attempted armed bank robbery is a violent crime under federal law.
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June trial set for Wilmington voter with felony child porn conviction
A federal judge has scheduled arraignment and trial for June 9 in the case of a Wilmington man indicted on charges that he voted despite having a felony child pornography conviction.
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Wilmington man charged with voting despite child porn felony sentence
Federal authorities are charging a 36-year-old Wilmington man with illegally registering to vote and voting in 2024 and 2026 despite serving on supervised release for a felony child pornography charge.
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Harris introduces bill repealing NEA charter
“Congress established the NEA in 1906 to support America’s teachers and strengthen our schools, but it has abandoned that mission in favor of a radical agenda.”- US Rep. Mark Harris, R-NC08.
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Federal Appeals Court allows NC taxpayer to sue IRS for refund, sets standard for ‘mailbox rule’
A business owner from North Carolina can move forward with his lawsuit seeking a 10-year-old federal tax refund. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected government objections Friday and ruled that the case of Stephen Pond v. United States can proceed. At the same time, the court ruled that Pond cannot rely on a “common-law mailbox rule” to boost his case.
Opinion
Outrageous story of the week: Whistleblower says Bank of America gave customer gun data to FBI
This week, news emerged of a behind-closed-doors February interview of retired FBI National Security Intelligence supervisor George Hill by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. One North Carolina congressman., Rep. Dan Bishop, R-NC-8, sits on the committee and has been very vocal about weaponization of federal bureaucracies...
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NC’s congressional Republicans call on Feds to investigate pro-life center attacks
After a string of attacks on pro-life pregnancy-support centers across the country, seven Republican members of North Carolina's congressional delegation signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate the attacks as domestic terrorism. U.S. Reps. Ted Budd, Patrick McHenry, Greg Murphy, Madison Cawthorn, Richard Hudson, Virginia Foxx, and David Rouzer all signed the letter.
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Federal lawsuits say state elections board denied voters’ civil rights
Illegally moving the goalposts. Intentionally violating North Carolinians’ civil rights. They’re the upshot of federal lawsuits filed separately on Saturday, Sept. 26, by Republican leaders in the N.C. General Assembly and the Republican National Committee/Donald Trump campaign against the N.C. State Board of Elections. A memo from the State Board of Elections changed absentee ballot...
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How Much Information Do You Have to Give the Census?
RALEIGH — When Rockingham County resident Eric Smith found the 2010 U.S. Census waiting for him in the mailbox, he immediately went in the house and filled it out. However, this North Carolinian — one of more than 4 million in the state to receive the government form — answered only one of the 10 questions on the form before returning it.
Opinion
No. 701: John Edwards, North Carolina
Wouldn’t you like to have a job where you showed up for work only 78 percent of the time — a job where you hobnobbed with cultural elites in Hollywood and crisscrossed the country in private jets? That’s the life of North Carolina’s “Part-Time Senator” John Edwards, now “officially” running for president.
