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Campus Y’s co-presidents said the closure feels like a “targeted attack” and punishment for the organization supporting student pro-Palestine activists.
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Federal regulators, medical experts and safe-sleep advocates have warned of the potential danger of weighted infant sleepwear, but manufacturers say their products have helped millions of families.
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President Biden had an unexpected update to his schedule Thursday to address the pro-Palestinian protests roiling campuses across the country.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently released its final land protection plan for the refuge in eastern North Carolina. The plan emphasizes working with willing private landowners to help expand conserved land.
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Dr. Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway joins co-hosts Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii on this encore edition of Southern Mixtape.
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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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UNC-Chapel Hill officials erected a 6-foot fence around the flag pole at Polk Place after protesters pulled down the American flag that normally flies there and ran up a Palestine flag.
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A state Senate committee has approved legislation to force sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigration agents.
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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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WFAE's Layna Hong and WUNC's Eli Chen talk with co-host Jeff Tiberii about their story on health care interpreters for members of NC's Hmong community — who are often patients' adult children. They are also joined by Sendra Yang, who interprets for her father at his medical appointments.
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Wake County public school educators held a "walk-in" at seven schools and one school bus depot early Tuesday morning to call for pay raises in their local salary supplements funded by the county.
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A decline in hunters and a deadly disease are threatening the foundation of our wildlife management system.
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State lawmakers are back in Raleigh to begin what’s known as the short session – several months in which they’ll make adjustments to the state budget for the upcoming year and consider a variety of other legislation that didn’t make it across the finish line in the 2023 long session. One of the biggest partisan battles is likely to be over education funding: How much of the state's projected revenue surplus will go to public schools, and how much will address high demand for private school vouchers? Will the state address the funding cliff that childcare centers are experiencing as federal pandemic money expires?To sort through the issues facing lawmakers, WUNC's Colin Campbell spoke with Sen. Gale Adcock, D-Wake. Adcock, a longtime nurse practitioner, also discusses the state's healthcare policy needs in the months following the expansion of the Medicaid program.
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Religion and sexuality are often pitted against one another...so where does that leave folks who feel attuned to both? Anita interrogates that question alongside Lamya H., the author of "Hijab Butch Blues," a memoir they wrote to be "unapologetically queer and unapologetically Muslim."Meet the guest:- Lamya H., author and activist, explains how their identity as a Muslim and as a queer are intertwined and talks about the intersection of bothRead the transcript | Review the podcast on your preferred platformFollow Embodied on X and Instagram Leave a message for Embodied
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