GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA – SEPTEMBER 21: U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during a rally at Koury Convention Center on September 21, 2026 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Vance continues to make campaign stops around the U.S. in the lead up to the midterm elections. (Photo by Kent Nishimura-Pool/Getty Images)
By Christine Zhu
As President Donald Trump’s approval rating continues to flounder, Vice President JD Vance visited Greensboro on Monday to stump for Republicans in key congressional races in North Carolina.
Recent polls show Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper maintaining a sizable lead over former Republican National Committee and North Carolina Republican Party chair Michael Whatley in their contest for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat.
Vance applauded Whatley for his leadership and support for the Trump-Vance campaign.
Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements. (Photo by Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
By Nada Hassanein
Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements.
The broad tax and spending law that President Donald Trump signed last summer, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, established work, school or community service requirements for low-income adults who receive Medicaid under expansion provisions and waiver programs across 44 states.
Child care workers press NC legislators in 2024 to fund their industry as federal stabilization grants ended. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)
By Trevon Spencer
North Carolina’s midterm elections are on Nov. 3, and some voters in both parties are thinking about childcare before they hit the polling place.
A share of the state’s voters say finding and affording childcare is an issue, with many also saying the cost of care is affecting their finances and availability to work.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is urging President Donald Trump to embargo diesel fuel exports as rising costs impact farmers in his largely agricultural state. Grassley is shown at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on July 23, 2026. (Screenshot from committee webcast)
By Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — Diesel prices hit a record average of $6.51 a gallon Monday, and some in President Donald Trump’s own party are breaking their support for the ongoing war in Iran that has driven fuel prices to staggering levels in the United States and across the globe.
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