Gun safety advocates gathered last week to sound the alarm over Senate Bill 50, legislation that would allow North Carolinians as young as 18 to carry concealed, loaded handguns without a permit. With legislators back in town, the bill remains on the House calendar. If Republicans believe they have the votes, the chamber could move quickly to override Stein’s veto.
When students return to public schools across North Carolina, they may notice some familiar faces missing. According to the News & Observer, budget cuts and delayed state funding have forced districts to eliminate hundreds of positions, freeze programs, and prepare for the possibility of even deeper federal cuts under the Trump administration.
For North Carolina, the cuts proposed in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act are projected to erase $32 billion in Medicaid funding over the next decade, along with food assistance, funding for public schools, and clean energy tax credits.
Carolina del Norte podría perder hasta $3 mil millones si se aprueba una propuesta del gobierno de Trump para reducir en un 40% el presupuesto de los Institutos Nacionales de Salud (NIH).
En plena temporada de huracanes, la administración Trump ha ordenado que decenas de empleados de FEMA, la agencia federal encargada de responder a desastres naturales, sean transferidos temporalmente al Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE).
”The feature, which Instagram rolled out over the past weekend, displays users’ precise, real-time locations on Instagram’s map interface. When a user posts a story, reel, or post, the map tags their location with that post for the next 24 hours”, according to a press release from Jackson’s office.
“I can’t charge $30 for a chocolate bar, I can’t raise your price three times and leave us in this weird spot where we have to switch our business,” Sam Ratto, owner of Videri Chocolate in downtown Raleigh, told ABC 11.
Rep. Phil Rubin (D-Wake) blasted Whatley as a “Washington big oil lobbyist” who has “consistently elevated the most extreme forces in this party and in North Carolina”. Rubin pointed directly to Robinson, who lost the 2024 governor’s race in a landslide after years of inflammatory remarks.
“We’re in the worst hunger crisis that we’ve seen in nearly 20 years and with SNAP cuts that have been passed at the federal level, we’re going to see that spike in a way that we can’t fill the gap up,” Amy Beros, CEO of the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, told NC Newsline.
Ahead of Hurricane Erin’s arrival last week, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein highlighted how the federal government has yet to provide adequate aid to the communities of western NC. Nearly a year since Hurricane Helene made landfall, the federal government has covered only 8% of Hurricane Helene’s damage, according to Gov. Stein.