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[caption id="attachment_13061" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Mayor Christopher Neal and Louisburg Town residents speak out aginst HB 183 (Photo by Ahmed Jallow)[/caption] BY: AHMED JALLOW NC Newsline - Officials and residents from the town of Louisburg gathered Tuesday outside of the North Carolina Legislative Building to protest a surprise change to the town's mayoral election process, which they say was made without their knowledge or any public input. The provision was inserted into House

By: Callum Jones in New York and Michael Sainato The Guardian - Donald Trump fired the federal government official in charge of labor statistics, hours after data revealed jobs growth stalled this summer, prompting accusations that he is "firing the messenger". The US president claimed that Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of labor statistics, had "faked" employment figures in the run-up to last year's election, in an effort to boost Kamala Harris's chances of victory. Trump later claimed:

[caption id="attachment_13056" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Photo from PBS North Carolina Site[/caption] By: Shauneen Miranda NC Newsline WASHINGTON - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday that it will be shutting down. The announcement came just one day after a major Senate appropriations bill omitted funding for the nonprofit that funds public media and a week after President Donald Trump signed a bill into law that yanked $1.1 billion in previously approved

By: Kevin Hardy Stateline They may resemble other ATMs, but officials are increasingly warning about the potential for fraud with the expanding fleet of cryptocurrency ATMs popping up across the country. The National Consumers League says the largely unregulated machines have become favored by scammers for their anonymity and irreversibility - once a user transfers or deposits funds, that money is essentially gone. While officials say the machines can be

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press [caption id="attachment_12985" align="alignright" width="326"] Stanley Furniture, the largest employer in Graham County, announced it would be closing its manufacturing plant, laying off about 400 workers in this county of about 8,600. Gwen Albers/Carolina Public Press[/caption] When Shaun Adams was laid off by Stanley Furniture in 2014, he was beyond frustrated. Not only was he losing his job at the furniture manufacturing plant, but

WUNC | By Colin Campbell State lawmakers are trying to address long lines at the Division of Motor Vehicles by making it easier to renew driver's licenses online. DMV offices have been dealing with a surge in people trying to get a REAL ID under new federal requirements. Rep. Reece Pyrtle, R-Rockingham, says people who get their REAL ID shouldn't have to come back to the DMV in the following years.

By: Robbie Sequeira Stateline State lawmakers across the country filed more bills to restrict or protect libraries and readers in the first half of this year than last year, a new report found. The split fell largely along geographic lines, according to the report from EveryLibrary, a group that advocates against book bans and censorship. Between January and July 2025, lawmakers introduced 133 bills that the organization deemed harmful to

By: Amanda Hernández Stateline Amid recent political rhetoric about rising crime and violence in American cities, a new analysis shows that violent crime has continued to decline this year. Homicides and several other serious offenses, including gun assaults and carjackings, dropped during the first half of 2025 across 42 U.S. cities, continuing a downward trend that began in 2022, according to a new crime trends report released Thursday by the

NEW YORK (July 25, 2025) - Youth delegates from 38 nations joined distinguished veteran human rights advocates at the United Nations Headquarters to deliver a powerful indictment of global injustices - from state-sanctioned discrimination and human trafficking to nuclear threats and systemic violence - at the 19th International Human Rights Summit.  The three-day event, held under the theme, "Education for Peace," was hosted by United for Human Rights and Youth

[caption id="attachment_12950" align="alignnone" width="1536"] Photo of Shantel Arnold (Kathleen Flynn/Special to ProPublica)[/caption] By Richard A. Webster Verite News Louisiana passed a new police accountability law following allegations of civil rights violations against a sheriff's deputy caught on video dragging a Black woman by her hair and slamming her head into the ground. The woman, Shantel Arnold, sued the deputy and the sheriff, accusing the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office of conspiring