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Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill Friday that would commit more than $6 billion in funding to private school vouchers over the next decade, and made the case that it would harm rural schools.
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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will not appear at former President Donald Trump's rally in the eastern part of his state after a CNN report about his alleged posts on a pornography website's message board. That's according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning. Plans around the event in Wilmington could still change.
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Donald Trump has accepted a key endorsement from one of the nation's most influential law enforcement lobbies. The Fraternal Order of Police convention in the battleground state of North Carolina was billed as a way for Trump to pitch himself as a law-and-order figure and cast his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, as weak.
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North Carolina's Republican legislative leaders announced on Friday that they reached a spending deal to fund various programs. One of those programs is the state's Opportunity Scholarship that provides scholarships to families enrolling their children in private schools.
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The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ordered the State Board of Elections to stop printing ballots. The mail-in ballots were supposed to start going out Friday. The Court of Appeals instead says the ballots must be re-printed without Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name.
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Donald Trump is returning to North Carolina not only to stump in the pivotal presidential battleground state, but also aiming to draw a contrast with Vice President Kamala Harris on crime and public safety. Trump is slated to speak Friday at the Fraternal Order of Police's National Board of Trustees fall meeting in Charlotte.
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State lawmakers are scheduled to return to Raleigh next week, and Democrats say they’re concerned the session will include new funding for private school vouchers.
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A state trial judge denied Kennedy's request for a temporary restraining order to delay the start of sending out absentee ballots and an order that elections officials remove his name.
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Before voters even begin casting ballots, Democrats and Republicans are engaged in a sprawling legal fight over how the 2024 election will be run, a series of court disputes that could even run past Election Day if the outcome is close.
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In a hearing the day before absentee ballots are set to start getting sent out to North Carolina voters, a Wake County Superior Court judge will consider Robert F. Kennedy's demand to have his name removed.
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Several of North Carolina's most influential Black political action committees are joining forces to back Democrats running for statewide offices.
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While Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues to get removed from North Carolina's ballot, the presidential candidate is fighting for access to New York's ballot.