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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced, in Wilson, that USDA is providing $28 million to improve access to jobs, health care and infrastructure for people in historically underserved communities in North Carolina across the Rural Partners Network (RPN).
U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and his colleagues introduced legislation to prevent the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from prioritizing the needs of illegal immigrants over our nation’s veterans as the administration expects a surge at the southern border after the Trump-era immigration policy Title 42 is lifted.
A study from researchers at N.C. State University finds that Gmail marked 59% more Republican fundraising emails as spam than Democratic ones during the 2020 election.
On Monday, a federal judge rejected President Joe Biden’s mask mandates for trains and planes. Florida-based U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle ruled that the Centers for Disease Control had skipped a crucial responsibility to get public impact on the mandate, and improperly used the “good cause exemption” to skirt public notice requirements.
With only six weeks till North Carolina's primary election, legislative and congressional candidates have been working on getting as much attention to their campaign as possible to represent their party this November. While not being North Carolina's toss-up congressional districts, few races have gotten as much attention as North Carolina's 11th Congressional District.
President Joe Biden said he is “building back a better America than before the pandemic, with a better way with better pay, and greater dignity for working people.” This during a speech at N.C. A&T University Thursday afternoon in Greensboro. However, recent poll numbers indicate that most people in the state aren’t buying it.
North Carolina’s 4th U.S. Congressional District is a near-certain win for Democrats, but which Triangle-area Democrat will be replacing the retiring U.S. Rep. David Price, who began representing the area in Congress in 1987, is yet to be decided.
U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement on President Biden’s visit to North Carolina, where he is expected to deliver a speech about rising inflation.
Rarely has there been a more challenging or intimidating climate to grow old and retire in. Inflation, public health crises, and looming geopolitical conflicts remind many pensioners and retirees of the turbulent late 1960s and early 70s.
The United States Senate voted 53 to 47 Monday, April 4, to discharge the Senate Judiciary Committee from further consideration of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. This after the committee deadlocked along party lines with a tie vote of 11 to 11.
General Assembly leadership petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the congressional redistricting case.
Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-NC-12) and Representative David Rouzer (R-NC-07) announcing introduction of H.R. 7078, the LIHTC Financing Enabling Long-term Investment in Neighborhood Excellence Act or LIFELINE Act in the United States House of Representatives.
Even though gas prices now surpass $5 a gallon in many areas of the country, $4.13 in North Carolina, leaders from both sides of the aisle agree it's time to cut off Russian oil.
The recent efforts by a bipartisan group of senators to pass updates to the Electoral Count Act (ECA) have caught the attention of media across the country, and rightly so. The 135-year-old ECA, as it currently stands, is unconstitutional, complex, and in desperate need of reform.
The continued realignment of working-class Americans toward the Republican Party is one of the more fascinating political traits today.
Candidate filing for the 2022 statewide primary has restarted across North Carolina. Filing for the primary and rescheduled municipal elections will continue through March 4.
The U.S. Department of Commerce issued the following press release:
Congressman David Price (NC-04), Chair of the House Democracy Partnership (HDP), released a statement on Vladimir Putin’s audacious and barbaric attack on Ukraine.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is cautioning families about certain infant formula that has been recalled by Abbott for potentially containing a bacteria that can lead to hospitalization in infants. The recall includes powdered formulas Similac, Alimentum, EleCare and EleCare Jr., and they should not be used.
With hundreds of supporters gathered near him, former Greensboro-area Congressman Mark Walker announced Thursday he would continue to focus on the U.S. Senate race instead of switching to run for a U.S. House seat.
