Author: The Carolinian

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized another option for fall COVID-19 vaccination, updated shots made by Novavax. Updated vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna began rolling out last month, intended for adults and children as young as age 6 months. Now the Food and Drug Administration has added another choice -- reformulated Novavax shots open to anyone age 12 and older. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already has

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers, who say understaffing is hurting patient care, walked off the job Wednesday in multiple states, kicking off a major health care strike amid an extraordinary year for U.S. labor organizing and work stoppages. Kaiser Permanente is one of the country's larger insurers and health care system operators, with 39 hospitals nationwide. The nonprofit company, based in Oakland, California, provides health coverage

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper will travel this coming week to Tokyo with state officials and economic development leaders to promote global investment in the Tar Heel state, his office announced Friday. Cooper will lead a North Carolina delegation to the annual Southeastern United States/Japan Economic Development Conference from Oct. 11-15. The Democratic governor said he plans to meet with Japanese business leaders and government officials

Far more people are in harm's way as they move into high flood zones across the globe, adding to an increase in watery disasters from climate change, a new study said. Since 1985, the number of the world's settlements in the riskiest flood zones has increased 122%, compared to 80% for the safest areas, according to a study in Wednesday's journal Nature by researchers at The World Bank. The authors looked at settlement

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York City is challenging a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to anyone who asks for it, as the city's shelter system strains under a large influx of international migrants who have arrived since last year. The city filed a request late Tuesday asking a court to allow it to suspend the requirement when there is a state of emergency where

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina laws requiring citizens to reside in the state and within a precinct at least 30 days before an election date to be eligible to vote are unlawful and must be blocked, a union-affiliated retiree group said in a federal lawsuit this week. Lawyers for the North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans write that the 30-day residency mandate violates the U.S. Constitution and Voting Rights Act and

On October 31st at 5 pm, the Raleigh Housing Authority will close its waiting lists for Public Housing and Section 8. Once closed, no new applications will be accepted until a waiting list is reopened.  According to RHA, this summer, over 9,000 families waited for housing vouchers and over 6,000 families waited for public housing on waiting lists. That being said, representatives from RHA stated that it would take them

WASHINGTON (AP) - The stunning removal of Kevin McCarthy as speaker left the House effectively paralyzed Wednesday as Republicans struggled to bring order to their fractured majority and begin the difficult - and potentially prolonged - process of uniting around a new leader. The House opened briefly then shuttered closed, with caretaker speaker pro-tempore Rep. Patrick McHenry serving in the job with very little power for the foreseeable future. Other Republicans left