Harris has vowed to provide significant federal funding to support rural communities across the United States, expand small business financing for entrepreneurs in rural America, and invest in rural technical and higher education programs.
Across the country, local election directors are beefing up their security in advance of Election Day on Nov. 5 to keep their workers and polling places safe while also ensuring that ballots and voting procedures won't be tampered with.
Donald Trump and JD Vance have both spread lies that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating pets, leading to bomb and death threats in the town, classes being canceled, and even the Ku Klux Klan attempting to recruit. On Sunday, Vance admitted he spread the unfounded claims to get media attention.
Ryan Wesley Routh, who has multiple felony convictions in North Carolina, camped outside a golf course in Florida with a rifle for nearly 12 hours, lying in wait for the former president before a Secret Service agent thwarted the potential attack and opened fire....
Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor, said in multiple events recently that he eventually wants to see full abortion ban in North Carolina, despite his campaign ad last month in which he said he "stands behind" the state's "common sense" 12-week abortion ban.
This lawsuit, one of at least four that state and National Republicans have filed in recent weeks, seeks to block the board’s decision to allow students and employees from the University of North Carolina to use digital versions of their UNC IDs as a voter ID.
With just over 50 days until the election, Harris visits North Carolina to kick off her “New Way Forward” tour and deliver a vision for reproductive rights, small businesses, and affordable housing, while warning against Trump’s authoritarian agenda and Project 2025.
Despite Trump's claims at the debate with Kamala Harris, most states with abortion bans, including North Carolina, have refused to allow voters to decide whether to protect abortion rights.
Ex-President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris met for their first presidential debate—and Trump unleashed a barrage of lies and misleading claims.
The state court judges will soon decide whether to overrule the will of the voters and hand Griffin an election he lost. Social media posts from 2020 show the judges praising Griffin and feature smiling photos of themselves standing next to him.
Judge Jefferson Griffin lost his race but is still trying to toss out 65,000 votes. At ‘Disenfranchised Disco’ on Friday night, North Carolinians proved that protecting democracy requires mobilization—both on and off the dance floor.
There have been several previous rulings in separate courts, both state and federal, but those dealt with procedural issues. On Friday, a state judge will hear the first arguments about the fundamental questions at hand.
The court ruled that Griffin improperly attempted to bypass a lower court when he petitioned the issue directly to them, and ordered the case sent to the Wake County Superior Court, which, by law, should have gotten first crack. And now, a case that has dragged well into the new year has no end in sight.
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.