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Gas prices in late September were $4.19 a gallon for regular unleaded and over $6 a gallon for diesel fuel in Raleigh, North Carolina. A sticker affixed to the gas pump blames President Donald Trump for the high prices. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)
By Trevon Spencer
North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, and Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, announced Saturday they’ve agreed to call the legislature into a special session to provide relief from high gas and diesel prices.
The leaders did not announce a date for the special session or details on what measures they plan to consider. With only a month left until Nov. 3, it’s unclear whether they can or will call Republican lawmakers off the campaign trail before what’s expected to be a tough election for the GOP.
Absentee ballot being handled by an employee of the Wake County Board of Elections. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)
By Lynn Bonner
The North Carolina State Board of Elections is planning to ask the 1,599 registered voters flagged by a federal database as potential noncitizens to either confirm their citizenship or ask to be removed from the state voter list.
The letters will go out to those registered voters early next week, state elections board spokesman Jason Tyson said Friday.
(Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
By Clayton Henkel
Multiple media outlets reported Friday that the Senate Leadership Fund, a leading GOP super PAC, is diverting tens of millions of advertising dollars away from North Carolina’s closely watched U.S. Senate race between Republican Michael Whatley and former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.
The super PAC had pledged just six months ago to invest $71 million in the race to help Whatley secure the seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Thom Tillis.
(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
By Lynn Bonner
North Carolina counties are now paying more for a federal program that helps some hungry people eat, as a law shifting more of the cost of the nutrition assistance program to states takes effect.
One of the changes in the massive tax cut and social services cut bill Congress passed last year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, makes states pick up 75% of the administrative costs for SNAP. The federal government had split the cost 50–50 for many years.
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