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Gov. Josh Stein and Attorney General Jeff Jackson want Duke Energy to turn its voluntary federal data center pledge into enforceable protections for North Carolina customers.
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Should Congress trade stocks? Where NC's politicians stand, and how much they trade
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National Democrats inject $11 million more into NC Senate race
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Anti-ICE protesters tell NC lawmakers ‘we will not go back’
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More charges expected in NC political nonprofit spending investigation, according to DA
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Can North Carolina lower health care costs? New bipartisan commission gets to work
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NC political corruption probe: Warrant says group spent big on strip clubs, golf
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Mail-in ballots could be more easily thrown out, under new NC proposal
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‘Our last hope’: Federal bill hopes to stabilize college sports — if it can survive opposition
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Mass surveillance authorized on NC highways, all other state roads
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Cary residents demand answers after audit details questionable $1M spending
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Stanley Cup, World Cup lead to big betting in June, last month before tax, distribution changes
Politifact
Fact-check: How popular are voter ID requirements and how common are they?
“As Americans we are fair and logical. 83% of us favor requiring a photo ID to vote. In fact, most of the civilized world requires it but not us,” says an ad by Restoration of America, the umbrella name of several conservative advocacy organizations.
Fact-check: Trump says AI industry's data centers need more energy than the US produces
“They need, just as an industry, more energy than the entire country produces right now, when you think about it, which is incredible,” President Donald Trump said July 8 at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.
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State News
- Fact-check: Trump says AI industry's data centers need more energy than the US produces
- Farmville church demolished after structural collapse
- Shutdown lifted for Fury 325 at Carowinds, NC Labor Commissioner says
- Fact-check: Does Elon Musk pay the same amount into Social Security as someone making $185K?
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Politics
- Deposed Turkish opposition leader forms 'New Party' to challenge Erdogan
- EU finds TikTok violates its digital rule book by failing to protect privacy of minors
- Nearly 150,000 mail ballots rejected in California's primary despite efforts to count every vote
- German leader Merz reshuffles top posts as he tries to counter far-right advance
