Author: The Carolinian

  Victoria Bekiempis The Guardian A US appellate court has decided that the federal constitution does not guarantee a right to clean water. That legal opinion came in the form of a decision on Friday from the fifth circuit court of appeals to uphold a lower court's dismissal of a 2022 lawsuit from several Jackson, Mississippi, residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their constitutional rights. Those residents of Mississippi's

RALEIGH, NC-North Carolina public school students marked another year of noteworthy academic progress in 2025-26, achieving a record-high graduation rate and improving performance on most standardized tests, according to data presented Wednesday to the State Board of Education. The four-year cohort graduation rate rose to 88.8% in 2025-26, up from a record 87.8% in the previous year, thereby marking a new historic high. This graduation rate moves North Carolina's public

NEW YORK (AP) - When the planes crashed and the buildings fell on that sunny September morning 25 years ago, the shock waves of dismay and grief went far past downtown New York City, rural western Pennsylvania and just outside Washington, D.C. They radiated through every part of the United States in communities large and small, tearing at Americans' sense of safety and their place in the world. Hearts were

NC NEWSLINE - North Carolina is consistently ranked among America's top states for business. But a new ranking by Oxfam lists the state dead last in this year's 2026 Best States to Work Index. Oxfam, a global nonprofit focused on poverty and inequality, examined 37 policies including wages, worker protections, and the right to organize to determine which states do the best job of supporting workers in all 50 states,

WASHINGTON (AP) - Lonnie Bunch is stepping down from the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution following a tumultuous year in which President Donald Trump tried to remake the portrayal of U.S. history by the Smithsonian museums and other cultural entities. Bunch said in a news release Tuesday that he was departing the position he had held since 2019 "with very mixed emotions and heartfelt gratitude." The Smithsonian said he would

NC HEALTH NEWS - It would have been an ordinary Saturday for many families: playing board games, making crafts, taking silly pictures and eating lunch together. But for these families, it was a rare opportunity. Eight fathers and one grandfather at Sampson Correctional Institution, a medium- and minimum-custody prison in Clinton, spent four hours with their 19 children and grandchildren during Parent Day, enjoying the kind of ordinary family time

NC NEWSLINE - On a steamy September morning, all of North Carolina's agricultural bounty is on display at the State Farmers Market in Raleigh. The boxes and crates of neatly stacked fruits and vegetables stand in stark contrast to new data that reveals a worsening hunger crisis in North Carolina. According to Feeding America's annual Map the Meal Gap analysis, 1 in 7 North Carolinians are unsure where their next

THE CONVERSATION - Lactose intolerance makes drinking milk or eating ice cream a literal pain. For some people, eating a dairy treat can lead to bloating, nausea and diarrhea. You might've experienced its effects yourself. If so, you may think of lactose intolerance as a defect rather than the norm. But did you know that most people in the world today are lactose intolerant - and that the condition itself

NC NEWSLINE - Just over two months from midterm elections and four months removed from a U.S. Supreme Court decision that gutted Voting Rights Act protections for majority Black U.S. House districts, and 63 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech there, thousands gathered again at the Lincoln Memorial Friday. Organizers focused the anniversary march around a "Defend the Vote" message. The event, co-chaired

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Army announced Wednesday that it plans to add nuclear microreactors at five military bases from New York to Texas as a reliable source of energy independent of the commercial electric grid. The announcement comes as the Trump administration pushes hard to develop the next generation of nuclear power, including billions in loans for large nuclear reactors to meet skyrocketing power demand from data centers and