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On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to halt further offshore wind projects and review existing ones in development. The move could have a huge impact on North Carolina, where wind energy has become a key part of the state’s energy plan.
Trump issued an executive order to end birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, doubled down on fossil fuels that drive pollution, and targeted transgender Americans.
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to immediately end inflation and to make gas, food, and healthcare more affordable for the middle class, but the image of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk standing front and center during the inauguration suggested the middle class might not be on his priority list.
The president-elect should be able to, in theory, implement his “Day One” plans. The big question is – will he actually do what he’s proposed? Or will he, as he’s indicated in recent weeks, walk back some of those promises, reverse course, or just ignore them altogether?
Donald Trump nominated Kash Patel, a conspiracy theorist who has promised to use the FBI to pursue Trump’s political opponents, as FBI director. It is a nomination that epitomizes far-right extremism, write Scott Peoples, a former Army veteran and member of the national group Veterans for Responsible Leadership.
Western North Carolina is still waiting for funding from Congress nearly three months after Hurricane Helene. If the government shuts down at midnight on Friday, as is increasingly likely, the region will continue to go without critical federal aid for the foreseeable future.
Gaetz’ quick withdrawal suggests that he realized he likely wouldn’t win the votes necessary to be confirmed by the Senate following Trump’s inauguration.
McMahon is relatively unknown in education circles, although she has expressed support for charter schools and private school vouchers.
As part of Sunrise Movement’s national walkout for climate action, students at Durham School of the Arts walked out on Friday, demanding climate action towards Durham Public Schools.
Trump’s pick for health secretary wants to increase access to raw milk, remove fluoride from drinking water, and has said that vaccines cause autism and that WiFi causes cancer.
Over a 24-hour period following Trump’s election, there was a 4,600% increase in the usage of the phrase “your body, my choice” on X. The phrase has made its way offline as well, with young girls and parents across the country using social media to share instances of harassment involving it.
With concerns about potential political and living challenges, Durham community members gathered to create solutions and build a support network against a second Trump administration.
Trump has announced that Susie Wiles will serve as his chief of staff, is expected to nominate Marco Rubio as his secretary of state, and chose Kristi Noem to serve as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
After Election Day results came in, text messages referencing slavery and cotton-picking have targeted men, women, and students of color across the states, sparking outrage and federal investigations.
North Carolina once again cemented itself as the most impossible-to-define political state in the country, voting for Trump by a sizable margin but favoring Democrats over Mark Robinson, Michele Morrow and Dan Bishop.
Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts.
Political experts and campaign officials alike are expecting Donald Trump to declare victory on Tuesday night before the final results will roll in. It’s just one tactic the former president and his allies have been working on to sow doubt in a potential election loss.
Donald Trump’s plan to challenge a 2024 election loss involves relying on the far-right justices on the Supreme Court all the way down to MAGA sheriffs and local election officials, with a helping hand from Republicans in Congress, state lawmakers, and a firehose of lies and conspiracies being spread on social media.
An old meme about Superman advocating for diversity in America is making the rounds on the internet, just in time for an election that, once again, centers on Donald Trump’s vision of a white, Christian, anti-immigrant America.
The soaring enthusiasm for Kamala Harris among Democrats upended the race when she took over the ticket from Joe Biden this summer, but if she wins North Carolina and the presidency, it will also be because of Republican voters who are weary of Trump’s hold on the party but have been hesitant to say so in front of friends and family.
In an op-ed, Kate Kelly highlights how the 1873 Comstock Act, passed at the behest of Anthony Comstock — a man so obsessed with abortion providers, he drove one to suicide with his relentless harassment — could be revived by Republicans to enact a nationwide abortion ban.
Dozens of former Trump administration officials — including his former VP Mike Pence, former Chief of Staff John Kelly, and two of his former defense secretaries — have denounced the Republican nominee, with many instead endorsing Kamala Harris for president.
Trump is the first candidate in history to launch general election attack ads on transgender and drag issues, according to The Bulwark.
The rally bore glaring similarities to a Nazi rally held at an earlier iteration of Madison Square Garden in 1939. “My reaction is that it was a combination of 1933 Germany, 1939 Madison Square Garden last night,” former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci said on Monday.
During his term in office, Trump not only gutted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enforce the law, he weakened PFAS safeguards, allowing the contamination crisis to deepen across the country, including here in North Carolina.
More than nine years after he launched his first campaign for president, much of the media continues to struggle with how to cover Donald Trump. In a new op-ed, Jordan Zakarin describes the failures to hold Trump to account.
“Donald Trump’s actions and intentions would effectively put politicians in the exam room with doctors and our patients,” Dr. Amelia Sutton, a maternal-fetal medicine physician in Charlotte, writes in an op-ed.
Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the tensions over abortion in North Carolina have only intensified, setting up the presidential election as a referendum on fundamental rights for tens of millions of women.
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” Trump reportedly said in a private conversation in the White House. And in an interview with The Atlantic, Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly recalled that Trump once raised the idea of needing “German generals” to him directly.
Harris has vowed to strengthen workers’ rights, expand financial support for the working class, boost opportunities for non-college graduates, and raise the minimum wage. Trump, meanwhile, has promised to implement tariffs on imports and repeal federal investments in clean energy, both of which would likely lead to job losses.
