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22+ min ago   (121+ words) North Carolinians have two more reasons to be happy our schools. Earlier this week US News announced the latest rankings of public high schools in the US. North Carolina had 13 schools ranked in the top 500 public schools in the nation....

2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (454+ words) The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against a woman challenging her arrest near the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh during a COVID shutdown protest in 2020. The state Appeals Court will hear oral arguments next week in a…...

3+ hour, 53+ min ago   (496+ words) The Wake County Board of Education has moved a former principal’s lawsuit against the board to federal court. Scott Lassiter alleges that the board suspended him from his job and forced him to resign to help Democrats in the 2024 election....

3+ hour, 51+ min ago   (629+ words) Nine of the 10 best public high schools in North Carolina are schools of choice, not schools that students are assigned to, according to rankings released Aug. 18 by US News & World Report. The state’s top 10 schools include four early colleges, three…...

3+ min ago   (228+ words) The National Hurricane Center has flagged two areas of interest in the Atlantic The tropical Atlantic had been quiet this week/ On Thursday, National Hurricane Center (NHC) meteorologists flagged two tropical waves that have some potential for tropical development. A…...

13+ hour, 23+ min ago   (474+ words) After Hurricane Helene left more than 700,000 Duke Energy customers in North Carolina without electricity, rising power bills are sharpening a question for many households: how would they handle the next major outage? In parts of North Carolina not served by…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago   (337+ words) The U.S. national debt has now surpassed the $40 trillion benchmark, new data from the Treasury Department shows. The four charts below give context to the nation's debt issues. U.S. national debt has grown nearly 600% since the turn of the century. In 2000, it…...

7+ hour, 49+ min ago   (449+ words) Editors at National Review Online assess Florida Democrats’ latest peculiar electoral choice. In 2018, Florida’s Senate election was decided by just 10,000 votes — a close-enough margin to trigger a mandatory recount. In 2022, Florida’s Senate election was decided by 1,273,325 votes. In 2024, Florida’s Senate election…...

7+ hour, 46+ min ago   (149+ words) Editors at the Washington Free Beacon ponder a major bookseller’s latest controversy. Imagine a world in which the late Cambridge University professor Jason Arday had released a widely hyped book published by Simon & Schuster, one of the Big Five publishing…...

7+ hour, 40+ min ago   (257+ words) Editors at Issues and Insights address different political factions’ approach to the US Supreme Court. If you want to understand the difference between the political left and right, just look at how each side has treated the Supreme Court. For…...