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A Wake County Superior Court judge has ruled against Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin, who is trying to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in the race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court. But the trial court ruling notwithstanding, the judicial contest is far from over.
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From the football field to the halftime stage, here's what to know about the storylines and stakes before Super Bowl 59 kicks off on Sunday.
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McMahon has a limited background in education, and a long career as a business executive. She'd be stepping into an agency the president hopes to dissolve.

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A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009. Hasson Bacote was among a group of 15 death row inmates whose sentences were recently commuted to life without parole by outgoing North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper.
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In the hours and days following now-President Donald Trump’s re-election, online searches about leaving the U.S. surged. Host Anita Rao talks with a woman who turned a desire to leave the U.S. into reality.
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Leoneda Inge talks about Siembra NC's community defense strategies with co-director Nikki Marin Baena.
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Leoneda Inge sits down with a panel of reporters to unpack the week's top news stories in North Carolina.
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General Marquis de Lafayette toured across North Carolina during his visit to America in the 1800s.
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Ten years since the murders of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, a documentary tells their storyRemembering a tragedy that rocked our community. It’s been 10 years since three Muslim American college students were killed in Chapel Hill. We talk with the filmmaker behind the documentary “36 Seconds – Portrait of a Hate Crime.”
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The State Board of Education voted 9-to-2 to request a moratorium on new spending for Opportunity Scholarship vouchers as part of its budget request to the General Assembly.
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The executive orders have sent the research community into a state of confusion, concern, and anxiety. Meanwhile, some of the most powerful higher education system leaders in North Carolina have remained silent.
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Celeste Headlee speaks with Pastor Ricardo Correa of Monte Sinai Durham about his efforts to prepare his and other Latino congregations for potential interactions with ICE during their services.
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In the hours and days following now-President Donald Trump’s re-election, online searches about leaving the U.S. surged. Host Anita Rao talks with a woman who turned a desire to leave the U.S. into reality.