Roy Cooper speaks at a campaign event for Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in October 2024. (AP Photo/David Yeazell, file) ...

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Raul Reis will step down on August 1 from his role as dean of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he announced in an email to Hussman faculty ...

On July 2, North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature announced that it had finally passed its first budget in three years, making it the last state in the nation to do so. For months, no one ...

James Richardson, a Greenville man serving two life sentences for a 2009 drive-by double homicide he maintains he did not commit, spent much of the past year in a legal limbo familiar to many North ...

Christina Koch photographs Earth landmarks from the International Space Station in 2019. (Courtesy of NASA) ...

Roy Cooper speaks at a campaign event for Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in October 2024. (AP Photo/David Yeazell, file) ...

Christina Koch hung a poster of the Apollo 8 “Earthrise” photo in her dorm room. Now, she is credited with taking “Earthset” on a mission to orbit the moon.

As the cost of higher education rises nationwide, Davidson College announced this month that it is joining several universities across the state in offering free tuition for some families. Starting in ...

This is excerpted from They Stole A City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy and published with permission of Penguin Press. The campaign to reinstate white ...

How a small group of white men engineered the violent 1898 overthrow of Wilmington’s duly elected multiracial government.