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NC NEWSLINE - Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced Wednesday that Meta, the owner of Instagram and Facebook, will pay North Carolina up to $645 million and make major safety upgrades in a landmark case involving 47 states. Meta will pay unto $17.1 billion to the states in the second-largest state consumer protection settlement in history. "My wife and I have three kids. We know how hard it is to argue

NC HEALTH NEWS - Inside North Carolina prisons, incarcerated people have long turned to fellow prisoners for guidance about faith, conflict, grief, addiction and simply how to navigate life behind bars. An increasing number of those people are "field ministers" - incarcerated men who have earned a four-year bachelor's degree in pastoral ministry while also receiving training in counseling and other skills. After graduation, the field ministers - many serving

  By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Elbert Frank Cox was born Dec. 5, 1895, in Evansville, Indiana, and attended segregated public schools that were chronically underfunded for Black students. When Cox was six, a mob of white residents stormed the county jail after the murder of a white police officer, setting off a four-day riot that left as many as 13 people dead; it took a state militia of 300

By WakeMed In May, WakeMed and Atrium Health announced plans to form a strategic combination that would unite WakeMed, the largest health system in Wake County, with Atrium Health, which includes more than 40 hospitals and cares for North Carolinians across the state. Atrium Health is part of Advocate Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country. With this agreement, WakeMed would become part of the Charlotte-based

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - Shaw University gave preseason CIAA contender Fayetteville State all it could handle Saturday night, building a double-digit first-half lead and pulling within one score late before falling 33-20 in the 2026 season opener at Luther "Nick" Jeralds Stadium. The Bears, picked 10th in the CIAA preseason predicted order of finish, showed little concern for the preseason projections early against a Fayetteville State squad selected third. Shaw scored

By Pippa Neill The Guardian Almost half of the world's farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found. Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network, found there to be an estimated 402-433m cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year. Based on a worldwide farming population of 934 million, this means approximately 46%

NC NEWSLINE - Cuts to the nation's largest food assistance program will likely spill over into schools, causing students to lose access to free breakfast and lunch. More than 1 million American children have lost access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, following a recent federal law. Now, as schools gear up for a new term, a portion of those children could be at risk of losing free

COLUMBIA - Helping save Lakeview School in West Columbia is Earnestine Holden's retirement job. Like many of the people trying to save historic Black schools, Holden, who graduated from the school in 1967, isn't a professional historian or grant-writer. She's a passionate alum who wants to see the school she graduated from preserved for future generations to see. Recognizing the difficulty many alumni associations face in navigating complicated barriers to

WILSON, N.C. - For a few months in 2025, Believer Meats appeared to have achieved what much of the cultivated-meat industry had been promising for years. The company had built a massive production facility in Wilson County. Federal regulators had cleared its cultivated chicken for commercial sale. Investors had poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the venture, which had relocated its ambitions from Israel to the United States. Then,

CARY, N.C. - The sound of pickleballs striking paddles is echoing across Cary this week as the town welcomes some of the sport's biggest names for the inaugural Veolia Pickleball National Championships, bringing professional competition, amateur players and thousands of spectators to Cary Tennis Park. The weeklong tournament, running Aug. 31 through Sept. 6, marks the opening event of the 2026-27 Carvana PPA Tour season and is the first PPA