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[caption id="attachment_12058" align="alignnone" width="1440"] (AP Photos / Evan Vucci)[/caption] (AP NEWS) Elon Musk's effort to dramatically cut government spending is expected to fall far short of his grand early pronouncements, and perhaps even his most modest goals. It didn't have to be that way. According to experts across the ideological spectrum, a major problem was a failure to deploy people who understood the inner workings of government to work alongside

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced that COVID-19 vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women. In a 58-second video posted on the social media site X, Kennedy said he removed COVID-19 shots from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendations for those groups. No one from the CDC was in the video, and CDC officials referred questions about

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] The Cheerwine logo on the side of a Salisbury building. Credit: Anne Blythe[/caption] NC HealthNews - Cheerwine, a cherry-flavored soda brewed in Salisbury for slightly more than a century, has become widely known as the "nectar of North Carolina." On May 17, the Rowan County city held its annual festival to celebrate the beverage that L.D. Peeler, a general store owner, created in 1917. Peeler was

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1536"] U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contractors sort debris pulled from the bottom of Lake Lure in Rutherford County, North Carolina on April 14, 2025. Vegetative and man-made debris was washed into Lake Lure after Hurricane Helene devastated the region. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Michael Davis)[/caption] NC Newsline - The House unanimously approved $464 million in new relief for western North Carolina on Thursday,

[caption id="attachment_11988" align="alignnone" width="980"] Coco Gauff of the U.S. waves to fans after defeating Australia's Olivia Gadecki during their first round match of the French Tennis Open, at the Roland-Garros stadium, in Paris, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)[/caption] PARIS (AP) - Coco Gauff caused a brief and amusing delay at the French Open on Tuesday when she stepped onto Court Philippe-Chatrier without her rackets. Gauff looked confused before a ball boy ran out

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1400"] Culpepper, VA, USA - April 21, 2024: Exterior of a Target Department Store on a cloudy day (Photo by Douglas Rissing)[/caption] NNPA - Target Corporation is projecting a decline in annual sales and profits for 2025 as the retail giant struggles with fallout from its decision to end its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, pressure from new tariffs, and organized boycotts by Black consumers and

[caption id="attachment_11975" align="alignnone" width="1440"] Free Geek employee Ashley Martinez points to the screen while helping John Castro during a keyboard basics class offered by Free Geek on Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)[/caption] PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - One program distributes laptops in rural Iowa. Another helped people get back online after Hurricane Helene washed away computers and phones in western North Carolina. Programs in Oregon and

By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer  For many years, the Gullah-Geechee people were thought to exist primarily along the sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, distinct communities of African American descendants of enslaved West Africans who retained much of their cultural, linguistic, and culinary heritage. [caption id="attachment_11945" align="alignleft" width="448"] The Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is a 12,000 square mile National Heritage Area that spans the coastal regions of North Carolina,

On the evening of May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police outside a grocery store in Minneapolis. From the outset, the incident became a battle of narratives. The local police initially reported Floyd was experiencing "distress" and died from a medical incident. A day later, bystander Darnella Frazier uploaded a video that showed the graphic details, including the police's excessive use of force leading up to Floyd's death. Floyd's murder, and Frazier's

By Karl Cameron Special To The Carolinian The J.W. Ligon Media Center was the scene of a lively community meeting on May 15th at 6:00 p.m. that seemingly the local African-American Community wasn't told about. The topic of the meeting was the fate of the J.W. Ligon Building, which now houses a Middle School. J.W. Ligon Senior High School Alumni attendees were particularly concerned, because no public notice of the