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North Carolina university committee swiftly passes policy change that could cut diversity staff

4:06pm April 17, 2024

Diversity, equity and inclusion staff members' jobs in North Carolina's public university system could be at risk. The University of North Carolina Board of Governors committee quickly voted to repeal a DEI policy adopted in 2019. The policy will now be sent to the full board to vote on at its next meeting in May.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at an event in Los Angeles on March 30.

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Some independent candidates start their own political parties to ease ballot access

1:56pm April 17, 2024

by Ashley Lopez

Some states make it much easier to get on the ballot as a minor-party presidential candidate, compared with running as an independent. That's why RFK Jr. and Cornel West have made their own parties.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and their fellow Republican impeachment managers walk back through the U.S. Capitol Rotunda after transmitting articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday.

Senators to be sworn in as jurors in Mayorkas impeachment trial

11:11am April 17, 2024

The Senate is still negotiating what the scope of the homeland security secretary's trial will be and whether to allow debate in the Democratic-controlled chamber.

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Senate to begin its trial following the House vote to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas

7:19am April 17, 2024

The House sent articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate, where a trial starts Wednesday. Democrats are expected to try to dismiss the charges.

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Governor's pandemic rules for bars violated North Carolina Constitution, appeals court says

6:06am April 17, 2024

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper's orders during the COVID-19 pandemic that directed standalone bars to remain shuttered for safety while restaurants that serve alcohol got to reopen were “illogical” and violated the state constitution, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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Morning news brief

5:06am April 17, 2024

China urged to help ease Mideast tensions. Senate kicks off impeachment trial of the Homeland Security secretary. Coral reefs undergo a mass bleaching event which could soon be the worst on record.

Sen. Jon Tester pitches his usual moderate message as he seeks reelection

5:06am April 17, 2024

by Shaylee Ragar

Sen. Jon Tester of Montana will have to walk a fine line as a Democrat running for re-election in a state where Donald Trump is popular. Will his strategy of appearing moderate work?

The IRS commissioner faced tough questions from Senate Finance Committee

2:47am April 17, 2024

by Scott Horsley

Senators quizzed IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel about the just-finished tax-filing season and what's ahead for the government's tax collector.

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Voters head to the polls in Alabama's newly drawn 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday. That district includes Montgomery, Ala., seen here on June 5, 2018.

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Figures, Dobson advance in Alabama's runoffs for new House district

11:39pm April 16, 2024

by Kyle Gassiott

Alabama's 2nd Congressional District was reshaped to give Black voters more political power and followed a lengthy legal battle that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

Former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., gestures as he answers questions on Capitol Hill, June 18, 2002, in Washington.

Bob Graham, former U.S. senator and Florida governor, has died at 87

11:14pm April 16, 2024

by The Associated Press

Graham gained national prominence as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks and as an early critic of the Iraq war.