Multiple published reports say the Border Patrol agents working in and around Chicago are relocating to Charlotte and New Orleans. A social media post from Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for Public Affairs at Homeland Security, said, “We aren’t leaving Chicago.”

Republican Michael Whatley has the greatest polling deficit yet to Democrat Roy Cooper, trailing the former two-term governor by 8.7% in a sample released Thursday.

A criminal-justice law passed this year is expected to send even more people into North Carolina’s already overburdened involuntary commitment system — a system hospital leaders and former law enforcement officers say is stretched thin, unsafe, and in urgent need of overhaul.

Of all tests taken, 72.1% were scored a 3, 4 or 5 – demonstrating that a student is qualified to receive college-level credit for that subject. Since 2021, the number of exams with qualifying scores has roughly doubled to an all-time high of 123,394 qualifying scores in 2024-25.

In Wednesday’s Senate hearing on Capitol Hill before the Committee on Indian Affairs, Sen. Thom Tillis said the level of unity and support has never been greater. And it’s a fight that began 137 years ago, three years after recognition by the state of North Carolina.