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NC Newsline – After weeks of delay by the Trump administration, afterschool programs in North Carolina and across the nation received federal funding Monday for the upcoming 2025-2026 school year, though advocates remain concern about long-term support for the program. […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – North Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Josh Stein decided Wednesday against appealing a trial court ruling that did not go in his favor last month, securing a small victory for Republican lawmakers whom the governor was challenging. The […]

Newsline – Across the nation, Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health care, and in rural America, residents disproportionately rely on the public insurance program. But Medicaid cuts in the massive tax and spending bill signed into law […]

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) – Malcolm-Jamal Warner the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” has died at age 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said. Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department […]

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer James “Fergie” Ferguson, a civil rights attorney and native of Asheville, North Carolina, passed away on July 21, 2025, at the age of 82. Born in 1942 in the Jim Crow South, Ferguson became a […]

BY: JENNIFER SHUTT | NC Newsline WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to once again publish details about the pace at which it plans to spend money approved by Congress. U.S. District Court for the District […]

WASHINGTON – Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law will add $3.394 trillion to deficits during the next decade and lead 10 million people to lose access to health insurance, according to an analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The […]

WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Monday released more than 240,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., including records from the FBI, which had surveilled the civil rights leader as […]

By Karl Cameron Contributing Writer Driving in the 200 block of South Pettigrew St. gives you the impression that this is a typically quiet residential neighborhood. However, that has not been the case for Vietnam Veteran Leroy Mitchiner in the […]

NC Newsline – The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it would release some frozen federal grant funds for after-school programs, following lawsuits from 24 states and pressure from 10 Republican senators. The freeze, announced by the Trump administration earlier […]