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Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News, with Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Walz and Vance offer wildly different visions for how to solve America’s housing shortage

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During Tuesday’s vice presidential debate, Tim Walz highlighted the importance of building more affordable homes for families and holding accountable Wall Street investors who buy up housing and treat it as a commodity, while JD Vance continued to demonize undocumented immigrants and blame them for the nation’s housing shortage.
Vice President Kamala Harris gives remarks alongside U.S. President Joe Biden at Prince George’s Community College on August 15, 2024 in Largo, Maryland. Biden and Harris held the event to talk about their administration's efforts to lower drug costs. This event is the first time President Biden and Vice President Harris have appeared in public together since Biden announced he would be stepping down from running for re-election. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Harris seeks to lower drug costs for North Carolinians, building on recent progress

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Harris wants to expand the $35 monthly cap on insulin costs and a $2,000 annual cap on out-of-pocket drug costs so that they apply to all Americans, not just seniors on Medicare.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s healthcare plan would be ‘catastrophic’ for North Carolinians, a new Harris-Walz report says 

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Trump’s healthcare 'concepts' include repealing the Affordable Care Act, which would strip health insurance from more than 1.5 million North Carolinians, increase costs, and put people with preexisting conditions at risk of losing their coverage, the Harris-Walz report says.
Photo of North Carolina Court of Appeals building.

NC Court of Appeals halts use of UNC digital IDs for voting in November election

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In a last-minute ruling, the NC Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Republicans who argued that state law allowed only physical copies of the ID to be used to vote.
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Dan Bishop continues to stand by Mark Robinson despite reports of his pro-slavery, pro-Nazi posts

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The Republican nominee for attorney general isn’t retracting his support for the embattled gubernatorial candidate. Bishop has in the past described Robinson as “groundbreaking” and “the most formidable candidate [he’s] ever seen in North Carolina.”