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Will Atwater - NC Health News Judging by recent developments, microplastics have risen to the status of supervillain. Reports about these new anti-heroes read almost like celebrity sightings. The tiny particles are everywhere: in water, on land, on mountaintops, in humans and animals - and even in the clouds. Microplastic compounds are defined as being less than 5 mm long, which is slightly larger than a sesame seed, but many microplastic

NC NEWSLINE - Rep. Tricia Cotham, the Democrat-turned-Republican who upended North Carolina politics, has a Democratic challenger in the  Mecklenburg House district where she's running for another term. Yolanda Holmes, the Democrat who came in second to Cotham in a four-way Democratic primary in 2022, filed to run in the district. Cotham, a Mint Hill resident,  became a GOP hero when she switched parties this year to give Republicans a

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, its first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last year. The justices will hear appeals from the Biden administration and the maker of the drug mifepristone asking the high court to reverse an appellate ruling that would cut off

Laura Ungar (AP NEWS) - Regulators on Friday approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration said the one-time treatments can be used for patients 12 and older with severe forms of the disease. One, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, is the first approved therapy

WASHINGTON (AP) - Scared for her life after Rudy Giuliani and other Donald Trump allies falsely accused her of fraud, former Georgia election worker Wandrea "Shaye" Moss told jurors Tuesday she seldom leaves her home, suffers from panic attacks and battles nightmares brought on by a barrage of threatening and racist messages. Wandrea "Shaye" Moss took the witness stand on the second day of the defamation trial that will determine

Kevin Hardy - Stateline Andy Gipson gets concerned even when American allies such as the Netherlands and Germany invest in large swaths of Mississippi's farmland. "It just bothers me at a gut level," he said. For Gipson, Mississippi's commissioner of agriculture and commerce, the growing trend of foreign ownership could threaten what he views as the state's most valuable asset: the land that grows its forests, rice and cotton. "It

NC NEWSLINE - U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said it has been decades since the country has properly invested in the speed and reliability Americans want when it comes to passenger rail. But that is about to change. Buttigieg was in Raleigh Monday to highlight an $8.2 billion investment in 10 passenger rail projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. North Carolina's share of the funding is a whopping $1.09

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear an appeal that could upend hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot, including against former President Donald Trump. The justices will review a charge of obstruction of an official proceeding that has been brought against more than 300 people. The charge refers to the disruption of Congress' certification of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election victory over Trump.

DETROIT (AP) - U.S. auto safety regulators say they have taken the first step toward requiring devices in vehicles that prevent drunk or impaired driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Tuesday that it is starting the process to put a new federal safety standard in place requiring the technology in all new passenger vehicles. Such devices were required in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that was passed by

(AP NEWS) Starbucks said Friday it's committed to bargaining with its unionized workers and reaching labor agreements next year, a major reversal for the coffee chain after two years fighting the unionization of its U.S. stores. In a letter to Lynne Fox, the president of the Workers United union, Starbucks Chief Partner Officer Sara Kelly said the current bargaining impasse between the two sides "should not be acceptable to either