Graduate assistants at private universities now have the right to collectively organize thanks to a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board Tuesday classifying them as university employees.
Read More »A little-known former North Carolina legislator has surged ahead in the polls over incumbent Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., for his seat in the U.S. Senate.
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David McNelis, a joint research professor at UNC, is a proponent of using nuclear energy as much as possible. He recently wrote an op-ed in the (Raleigh) News & Observer explaining the dangers of overlooking nuclear energy.
Read More »Zika isn’t in North Carolina, and researchers across the state are working hard to keep it that way.
Read More »When Elizabeth Forbes, director of the prisoner advocacy group NC-CURE, received a call from a family whose incarcerated son was planning to commit suicide, she immediately contacted the prison he was housed in: Rivers Correctional Institution, a private prison in Winton, North Carolina.
Read More »When Samuel Flippen was executed in the early hours of Aug. 18, 2006, by lethal injection, he locked eyes with his parents and mouthed, “I love you.”
Read More »The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned North Carolina’s voter-identification law Friday, acknowledging the state’s history of racial and voting discrimination.
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During former North Carolina governor Jim Hunt's time in office, the state experienced the largest period of economic growth in its history, bolstering its investment in world class public higher education and modernizing the state's economy.
Read More »North Carolina voters will have more than a “yes-or-no” option when casting ballots in the state Supreme Court primary this June, after the state’s highest court split its vote 3-3 in early May over the constitutionality of a new voting law.
Read More »For years, many North Carolina municipalities, including Asheville, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, have supported what have come to be known as "sanctuary city" policies, which instruct law enforcement not to question immigration status, and to take a more lenient stance on deportation policy.
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Oral and anal sex is still legally prohibited in North Carolina and 15 other states.
Read More »More people are packing their bags and moving to North Carolina than are leaving the state, according to a recent study conducted by U-Haul.
Read More »Background checks and criminal filings just got more accessible for ten American Indian tribes, as the Department of Justice granted them access to national crime databases for civil and criminal purposes.
Read More »The Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate might be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court following contradictory rulings in several circuit courts nationwide.
Read More »Barney Frank, former Massachusetts's representative andthe first member of the U.S. Congress to marry someone of the same sex while in office, spoke at the annual Weil Lecture on American Citizenship Thursday in Carroll Hall.
Read More »Republican sponsors of a U.S. House of Representatives bill hope to change the process of reporting sexual assault on college campuses.
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Hundreds of North Carolinians marched for voting equality in Raleigh on Thursday night during the North Carolina leg of America’s Journey for Justice — a recreation of the historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., which in part resulted in the Voting Rights Act’s passage later that year.
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Tyler Strandberg, 28, liked to knit toboggans for at-risk boys with their favorite superheroes at Christmas. The 2009 UNC graduate dressed her rescue dog in Tar Heel attire on basketball game days. And she loved the outdoors.
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Yellow taxi cabs might not be the only ones on terminal curbs — the N.C. General Assembly passed a bill Thursday to legalize airport pick-ups by transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft.
Read More »Several media outlets chose to air the footage of two reporters from WDBJ-TV being shot mid-broadcast in Roanoke, Va., on Wednesday — raising questions about the ethics of violent content in the media and the dangers reporters face while on the job.
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