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North Carolina election officials say pending legal action over absentee voting won't impact the start of the mail-in voting period Friday.
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Pitt County Council on Aging
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The major grant is designed to replace distressed public housing with safe, affordable options while boosting local economic and educational resources in Craven County. -
The bill by North Carolina Republican Richard Hudson would give the state 20 acres of federal land to replace a Fayetteville veterans home that closed in 2024. -
Recent scattered rain and high humidity helped some North Carolina counties ease out of drought conditions, but the overall drought persists across the Piedmont.
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In a massive restructuring under the Trump administration, U.S. Forest Service is closing dozens of research stations but, as NPR's Chiara Eisner reports, it is keeping some facilities open that had been projected to shutter.
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The U.S. strikes three Iranian oil tankers after Iran targets two American warships, in the latest exchange over shipping and the Strait of Hormuz.
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Activist and author Angela Davis remembers her friend Gloria Steinem, and discusses intersectional feminism today.
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On the centennial of father's birth, Ravi Coltrane talks about turning the home where the jazz legend spent a crucial period in the 1950s into a cultural heritage and community space.
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The Republican midterm convention in Dallas takes place in the same city that helped give rise to the Bush political dynasty. Still, many policies championed by the conservative presidents are noticeably absent from today's Republican Party.
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A United Nations report has found that the world will warm to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Climate solutions advocate Ayana Elizabeth Johnson urges a quicker implementation of known strategies - and determination rather than despair.
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NPR's Bobby Allyn talks about covering the prediction markets, where anyone can trade bets on the outcome of anything happening in the real world.
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"Blue," a statue that's been on the grounds of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for 7 years has been dismantled and removed. -
A captain with the New York City Fire Department 25 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001, tells his daughter for the first time what he experienced that day.
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New research at the American Chemical Society meeting showcased a potentially edible cookie made out of — plastic!
