RALEIGH — With Medicaid funding cuts scheduled to go into effect next month, Gov. Josh Stein joined affected North Carolinians to urge the N.C. General Assembly to reverse the cuts by fully funding ...

Dear Eric: My sister, age 86, and I, 84, have two younger brothers, 77 and 74. We have all been invited to share Thanksgiving with one of my brothers and his wife. We siblings are spread out ...

I have so many things to say, I don’t know where to start. We at the Madison County Humane Society are planning our 16th annual Fur Ball. The theme is “Happy Tails,” because every animal deserves a ...

Whenever a young man is at the center of a widely publicized shooting or suicide, parents ask themselves the same questions: What warning signs were missed? What could have been done? That gut-sinking ...

It seems harder than ever for Americans to find common ground. Political debates quickly turn into shouting matches, and too often, people stop listening altogether. Political polarization isn’t just ...

Skip through the cvs of the recently promoted and appointed in the Labour government and a pattern emerges. Torsten Bell, the boyish pensions minister, now has the unenviable task of helping pull ...

A new House bill would reverse cuts at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The FEMA Critical Staffing Act would require the agency to reinstate employees fired under the Trump administration. It ...

As President Trump was holding his press conference this past Monday morning, Aug. 11, 2025, announcing he would be federalizing the Washington, D.C., police force, I was shown a couple of facebook ...

Today’s story is about Shaurn Thomas, Innocence Project poster boy. The New York Times did not cover Thomas’ 1994 conviction for second-degree murder at the time — but celebrated his “exoneration” in ...

For years, I never used the extra buttons on the side of my mouse, and mostly just viewed them as a nuisance. Too often I’d click them by accident and trigger some unwanted action, like navigating ...

The worst public health crisis in 100 years became arguably the worst public policy failure in U.S. history because of social pathologies that the pathogen triggered. The coronavirus pandemic is over.