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Marc Wyatt, director of Welcome House Raleigh, a ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, received a call recently from the North Carolina field office of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants asking if he could help furnish two apartments for three newly arrived refugees, among the 59 who arrived in the U.S. last week from South Africa.
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At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured in strikes that hit more than 30 cities and villages across Ukraine.
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Five years after George Floyd's death sparked worldwide protests over police brutality and racism, NPR's Michel Martin reflects on Morning Edition's return to Minneapolis to examine what has changed.
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The footage of the incident was released by a court order following a lawsuit from several news organizations including WUNC seeking the release of the videos.
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Rep. Laura Budd, D-Mecklenburg, is one of the few Democrats who's sponsored bills that passed the House this year. She joined the WUNC Politics Podcast to talk about how she's developed relationships across the political divide and the legislation she's developed with GOP colleagues.
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A national report released quarterly shows that both unemployment and underemployment have risen among recent grads—and the same is being felt in North Carolina.
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A North Carolina congresswoman leads a middle-of-the-night hearing, before passage of a controversial budget bill. What could the spending plan mean for North Carolinians and rural hospitals?
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Corinne Bailey Rae chats with WUNC music reporter Brian Burns about her latest record "Black Rainbows."
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The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to remove legal protections for roughly 350,000 Venezuelans living in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.
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Republican lawmakers want to eliminate vacant jobs across state government this year. But some existing state employees would lose their jobs under the House and Senate budget bills.
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Last week, scientists launched plastic water bottles outfitted with GPS systems into two Raleigh creeks to research the movement of waste in urban waterways. The study is part of North Carolina Sea Grant, a project funded by the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA).
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A North Carolina congresswoman leads a middle-of-the-night hearing, before passage of a controversial budget bill. What could the spending plan mean for North Carolinians and rural hospitals?
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A scholar examining the intersection of climate anxiety, reproductive justice and race shares her research on how emotions about climate change are impacting folks’ plans to have kids.