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Farm Aid will be back in Raleigh for the second time in the festival's history Saturday, and the 89-year-old Nelson and his family are the headliners of the show. They'll be joined at the Coastal Creek Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek by Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, and Allison Russell, among others.
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APHurricane Fiona pounded Bermuda with heavy rains and winds early Friday as it swept by the island on a route forecast to have it approaching Canada late in the day as a still-powerful storm. -
Jim Mone/APVoting for the midterms has started in some states. With more people voting early and mailing in ballots, elections are increasingly less about Election Day and more about what happens weeks earlier.
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen heads to the Durham area next Tuesday as part of her ongoing national tour to promote the Biden administration's legislative agenda ahead of midterm elections
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A key message for the visit by North Carolina officials is the recovery in manufacturing. The event reflects new efforts to expand the use of the White House campus as pandemic restrictions have eased.
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The Southern Baptists' Executive Committee has voted effectively to cut ties with two congregations. One is an LGBTQ-friendly church, College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, that had itself quit the denomination decades ago.
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Efforts to exempt North Carolina residents from state income tax on the value of student loan forgiveness announced by President Joe Biden has taken a hit given that state Senate leader Phil Berger opposes the idea.
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Expectations that a Medicaid expansion agreement in North Carolina are nigh have been short-circuited for now as Senate leader Phil Berger called an offer by the state's hospitals "not a serious proposal."
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Historically Black colleges and universities are using federal COVID relief funds to cancel student debt, upgrade campus infrastructure and retain students who struggle because of financial barriers.
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State and local election officials consumed with preparing for a midterm just seven weeks away must contend with persistent — yet baseless — claims from 2020.
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Rockingham County Republican Phil Berger is the most influential elected official in North Carolina politics. He has presided over the state Senate since 2011 and overseen a historic shift in state government. Berger returns to The Politics Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation, including election strategy, the judiciary, and what could be done to reduce the political temperature in our country.
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Anita has long taken a laissez-faire approach to digital security. But as she's learned (the hard way), just because she doesn't have something to hide, doesn't mean she has nothing to lose. She calls in experts, including an abortion doula and sex worker, to learn strategies for keeping personal information safe online. Meet the guests: Amanda Bennett, a project manager for Digital Defense Fund, walks us through the basics of digital security and shares practical tips Kestrel, an abortion doula and member of the Mountain Area Abortion Doula Collective, shares what they and their collective members do to protect themselves Dr. Olivia Snow, a sex worker and research fellow at UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, talks about what we can learn from sex workers when it comes to digital security Read the transcript | Review the podcast Follow Embodied on Twitter and Instagram
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Personal-finances educator, coach, and author Lynnette Khalfani-Cox offers more insights about mixing money and love. As we age, she says, the topic grows in importance.Thanks to our sponsor Silver Singles. Learn more at silversingles.com/datingwhilegray.
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Iguanas didn’t always fall out of trees during cold snaps in the Sunshine State, but chances are, future generations will regard them as just a natural part of the landscape. With the world changing around us at a rapidly increasing rate, how do we set conservation goals when we can't keep track of what we’ve lost?
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