An NC lawmaker wants his fellow Democrats to talk about weed. His ad went viral | Opinion Meyer and two of his Democratic colleagues have sponsored a bill in the legislature titled the “Marijuana Justice and Reinvestment Act.” By legalizing, regulating and taxing marijuana, North Carolina ... 04/23/2024 - 9:59 pm | View Link
FBI issues warning about North Carolina toll scam Scammers are sending text messages telling North Carolinians they have unpaid toll fees, but it’s just a ploy to get your money. 04/23/2024 - 7:40 am | View Link
Candidate Hunt speaks to area Democrats North Carolina State Senator Rachel Hunt was welcomed to Old North State Winery on Saturday by a contingent of area Democrats from Surry, Stokes, and Forsyth Counties. She is running ... 04/21/2024 - 6:01 pm | View Link
Delays in testing signature matching on NC mail-in ballots State election officials say they haven’t carried out a pilot program yet to verify the signatures of people using mail-in ballots because they’ve been unable to find a vendor. 04/20/2024 - 9:23 am | View Link
Biden administration will require more gun dealers to run background checks on buyers Thousands more firearms dealers across the United States will have to run background checks on buyers when selling at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores. 04/11/2024 - 7:30 am | View Link
During a Supreme Court hearing on Idaho abortion law, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and Justice Samuel Alito clashed over fetal protections under federal law EMTALA. Prelogar argues women deserve necessary medical care, challenging Alito's focus on "unborn child" protections.
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Arizona doctors could give their patients abortions in California under a proposal announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to circumvent a ban on nearly all abortions in that state.
It would apply only to doctors licensed in good standing in Arizona and their patients, and last only through the end of November.
Defendants in Colorado sexual assault cases soon will be prohibited from using what a victim was wearing or a victim’s hairstyle as evidence of consent.
Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera, who is the acting governor this week, signed House Bill 1072 Wednesday afternoon. The bipartisan legislation is aimed at strengthening protections for sex assault victims in court by expanding the rape shield law.
John Cage, the influential composer and artist, is dead. So it’s technically impossible to know with absolute certainty how he would feel about the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University.
But the question emerges after New York Times columnist John McWhorter, a music humanities and linguistics professor at Columbia, wrote that he was forced to stop students from playing Cage’s 4’33”—a seminal work that’s effectively four minutes and 33 seconds of silence (though Cage-heads might disagree with that description)—because of the demonstrations.