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A trial over a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s photo voter identification law has started. The trial began in Winston-Salem on Monday, more than five years after the NAACP sued over the voter ID law enacted by the Republican-dominated General Assembly.
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Friends, colleagues and the wife of fallen Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Joshua Eyer are remembering him as a hard-charging outwardly stern cop who also peppered friends with "how's things" texts and showered love on his wife and young son. Thousands packed the sanctuary at Charlotte's First Baptist Church on Friday for Eyer's memorial service.
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United Methodist delegates have repealed their church's longstanding ban on the celebrations of same-sex marriages or unions by its clergy. The action marked the final major repeal of a half-century's collection of LGBTQ bans and disapprovals that were embedded in the laws and social teachings of the United Methodist Church.
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President Joe Biden has met privately with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A haunting new video released in the early morning hours is the latest effort by the Army to lure soldiers to some of its more secretive units.
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President Joe Biden is expected to travel to North Carolina on Thursday to meet with the family members of four officers killed earlier this week in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016.
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U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles granted a partial victory on Tuesday to a physician who performs abortions and last year sued state and local prosecutors and state health and medical officials.
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United Methodist delegates have begun making historic policy changes on sexuality, voting without debate to reverse a series of anti-LGBTQ polices.
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A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia and North Carolina's refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory.
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The UNC-Chapel Hill product becomes the second quarterback taken in the first round by New England since 2021 and will be its latest attempt to find a franchise quarterback following Tom Brady’s departure after the 2019 season.