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The staff of Kate’s Korner Childcare Center stands in front of the entrance in Durham. (Photo: Courtesy Kate’s Korner)
By Trevon Spencer
DURHAM — At Kate’s Korner, the day begins early – children arriving, classroom doors opening, small voices calling for teachers, parents saying quick goodbyes before heading to work.
For the childcare center’s staff, the morning comes with one less worry: they don’t have to figure out how to pay for care for their own children.
Absentee ballots are prepared to be mailed at the Wake County Board of Elections on September 17, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)
By Lynn Bonner
Three North Carolina nonprofit organizations and two voters are suing over new absentee ballot requirements that put votes in jeopardy of being discarded.
The North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans, North Carolina Asian Americans Together, Down Home North Carolina, and two voters filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against the state Board of Elections and elections boards in Guilford and Durham over the directives the state board adopted earlier this month.
(Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)
By Greg Childress
There will be much at stake in November when North Carolinians go to the polls.
The state has one of the nation’s most closely-watched U.S. Senate races. A win by former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper — a Democrat matched against Michael Whatley, former chairman of the Republican National Committee — could help change the balance of power in the Senate.
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, Republican of Alabama, was among the Senate Republicans at a hearing on Sept. 23, 2026 pressing for more action to bar transgender athletes from women’s sports. (Photo by Alander Rocha/Alabama Reflector)
By Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — Republicans on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee used a hearing Wednesday to continue voicing opposition to transgender athletes competing in women’s sports, which the top Democrat on the panel called a distraction from cost-of-living issues voters are more concerned about.
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