Teacher Bonus Bill Penned by Republicans Clears N.C. Senate
North Carolina public school teachers would get $350 bonuses and potentially more one-time income...
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Governor Cooper: Decision on Shuttered Businesses Comes Next Week
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said on Monday he’ll announce early next week whether...
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Raleigh Statue of Newspaper Publisher, White Supremacist, Comes Down
The statue of a former newspaper publisher, U.S. Navy secretary and lifelong white supremacist has...
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Liberal Groups Warn Biden Could Lose Over Policing Policies
More than four dozen progressive groups have signed a letter to presumptive Democratic...
Read MoreFirst Drug Proves Able to Improve Survival from COVID-19
Researchers in England say they have the first evidence that a drug can improve COVID-19 survival: A steroid called dexamethasone reduced deaths by up to one third in severely ill hospitalized patients. Results were announced...
Read MorePoll: Americans Are the Unhappiest They’ve Been in 50 Years
Spoiler alert: 2020 has been rough on the American psyche. Folks in the U.S. are more unhappy today than they’ve been in nearly 50 years. This bold — yet unsurprising — conclusion comes from the COVID Response Tracking Study,...
Read MoreA Drug Offers Hope Even as Virus Cases Rise in Africa, Asia
Researchers on Tuesday announced the first drug shown to reduce deaths among severely ill coronavirus patients, offering hope even as infection rates rose in Africa and Asia, and there were worrisome upticks of contagion in...
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Grim Blame Game Over Virus Deaths in Besieged Nursing Homes
A grim blame game with partisan overtones is breaking out over COVID-19 deaths among nursing home...
Read More`Stop Fighting!′ Atlanta Sobriety Test Quickly Turned Deadly
One minute, Rayshard Brooks was chatting cooperatively with Atlanta police, saying he’d had a couple of drinks to celebrate his daughter’s birthday and agreeing to a breath test. The next, they were wrestling on the ground and...
Read MoreAmerican Sentenced to 16 Years in Russia on Spying Charges
A Russian court on Monday sentenced an American security executive to 16 years in prison on spying charges, a verdict that drew an angry response from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who denounced the man’s treatment by...
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