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[caption id="attachment_9941" align="alignnone" width="1536"] NC State students tape a list of demands to Holladay Hall, the building containing the chancellor's office, on Nov. 19, 2024. (Christine Zhu/NC Newsline)[/caption] NC Newsline - One year after the closure of Poe Hall at North Carolina State University, students are demanding more action from the school's administration to address the issue of PCBs on campus, which are linked to breast cancer. PCBs, or polychlorinated

The Conversation The Food and Drug Administration implemented a rule to go into effect on Sept. 10, 2024, requiring mammography facilities to notify women about their breast density. The goal is to ensure that women nationwide are informed about the risks of breast density, advised that other imaging tests might help find cancers and urged to talk with their doctors about next steps based on their individual situation. The FDA originally issued the

[caption id="attachment_9937" align="alignnone" width="1536"] Laura Hogshead (left), the director of ReBuild NC, and Pryor Gibson, advisor to Gov. Roy Cooper, are sworn in to testify in front of lawmakers about the state's hurricane recovery housebuilding program on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline)[/caption] NC Newsline - Laura Hogshead, director of ReBuild NC, which mismanaged millions of dollars in hurricane recovery spending, is no longer employed with the agency,

[caption id="attachment_9932" align="alignnone" width="800"] Dr. Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health at a Sept. 2021 Capitol press conference. This month, Toomey sent a letter dismissing members of the state's maternal mortality review committee. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder[/caption] ProPublica - Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women. The move came in response to ProPublica having obtained internal reports

[caption id="attachment_9902" align="alignnone" width="1536"] President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would tap Linda McMahon as Education secretary in his second administration. In this photo, McMahon, at the time the head of the Small Business Administration, speaks during a rally with GOP lawmakers at the U.S. Capitol Nov. 28, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)[/caption] President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday night he plans to nominate Linda McMahon, the

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1536"] The NC Senate chamber (Photo: ncleg.net)[/caption] Republican lawmakers in North Carolina approved wide-ranging legislation Wednesday that was billed as another round of hurricane relief, but instead primarily shifts power within state government away from Democratic officials. Senate Bill 382 is advertised as the third round of relief for western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene caused unprecedented damage in the state's western counties. But it provides just a fraction

The Conversation - In an era where digital devices are everywhere, the term "screen time" has become a buzz phrase in discussions about technology's impact on people's lives. Parents are concerned about their children's screen habits. But what if this entire approach to screen time is fundamentally flawed? While researchers have made advances in measuring screen use, a detailed critique of the research in 2020 revealed major issues in how screen time is

[caption id="attachment_9889" align="alignnone" width="980"] A placard expressing opposition to a Republican-penned measure being debated sits outside the North Carolina Senate gallery at a Legislative Building news conference in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, Nov. 20. 2024. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)[/caption] RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina Republican legislators gave final approval Wednesday to a series of political power moves that would weaken the incoming governor and other Democratic elected officials in the

The Conversation - Young families with children are a shrinking part of the U.S. population in many areas. The decline is especially pronounced in major urban centers, including Boston, San Francisco, New York, Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Seattle, Philadelphia, San Jose and Washington, D.C. During the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, many families with children moved to suburban or rural areas in search of more space. From mid-2020 through mid-2022, populations of young

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden has been notably quiet since the Democrats' gut-wrenching defeat at the polls. After warning voters for years that a Donald Trump win would be calamitous for American democracy, Biden has gone largely silent on his concerns about what lays ahead for America and he has yet to substantively reflect on why Democrats were decisively defeated up and down the ballot. His only public discussion of the