NEW: Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment.
The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment.
By Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
NC election officials approve new rules for noncitizen voter challenges ncnewsline.com/2026/04/16/n...
ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
Good morning. Congress is back today, and we're watching to see whether the Senate will resume debate on the SAVE America Act.
Over the recess, I looked at a couple aspects of the bill >>>
(1/2)
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
UNC chancellors sidestep political questions at forum on challenges facing higher education ncnewsline.com/2026/04/09/u...
Republican state Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) was handed a setback in his election recount efforts Wednesday when the North Carolina State Board of Elections declined to take up his request for an expedited hand-eye recount of 220 ballots. Story by @kingdollar.bsky.social #ncpol
"Per the analysis by Open the Books, in September, the Pentagon spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab, $6.9 million on lobster tail, $15.1 million on ribeye steak, and $1 million on salmon. Dessert included 272 orders of doughnuts for $139,224 and ice cream machines for $124,000."
Provisional ballot count in NC Senate Berger/Page primary. Berger adds 26 votes. Page adds 56 votes. Guilford elections board meeting ongoing.
BREAKING: Kristi Noem out as DHS secretary; Trump to tap Oklahoma Sen. Mullin ncnewsline.com/2026/03/05/r...
Berger challenger Sam Page asks state elections overseer to recuse himself as ballot count goes on ncnewsline.com/2026/03/04/b...
New: An immigration judge has rejected the Trump administration's efforts to deport Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested last year as part of its targeting of pro-Palestinian campus activists, her lawyers said. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
NC lawmaker investigated reports of campus antisemitism. Now she’s being sued. Student activist Khymani James sues US Rep. Virginia Foxx, alleging she abused power to obtain his de facto expulsion from Columbia University. (Via Jane Sartwell) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... #ncpol #nced
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
In 16 weeks, the South Carolina measles outbreak has surpassed the total number of cases reached in the West Texas outbreak over the course of seven months.
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document.
Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
DHS version
White House version
The White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.
Trump, who turns 80 this year, repeatedly mixes up Greenland and Iceland in Davos speech even as he argues that one of them should be part of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
".. when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms,” Trump said. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.”
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
Many journalists said they saw the FBI raid of a Washington Post reporter’s home as a jarring new step aimed at limiting news organizations’ ability to gather information that the government does not want to be made public.
As thousands of immigration agents arrive in Minnesota, neighbors are working together to track, distract and protest ICE. The cat-and-mouse game between activists and agents is escalating as tactics change daily.
Amid protests, NC elections board rejects campus voting sites and Sunday voting in several counties ncnewsline.com/2026/01/13/a...
