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North Carolina N.C. Is Taking It Slow on Reopening. Here’s How That Compares to Its Neighbors.

Gov. Cooper ordered the state move to Phase 2 of reopening Friday. But questions remain about the virus’ spread.

May 27, 2020 2:53 pm EDT
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Safety Weeks After Trump Compels Meat Processors to Remain Open, COVID-19 Breaks Out at NC Tyson Plant

A Wilkesboro chicken plant is the site of another coronavirus outbreak at a North Carolina meat plant, Vice News reported Thursday.

May 21, 2020 5:10 pm EDT
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Politics Burr Steps Down As Senate Intelligence Chair After FBI Seizes His Cell Phone

Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., stepped aside as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday after the FBI served a search warrant for his cellphone as part of an ongoing insider-trading investigation tied to the coronavirus pandemic.

May 14, 2020 12:58 pm EDT
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North Carolina The Last County In North Carolina Without a Confirmed COVID-19 Case

Avery County has ramped up coronavirus testing in the last week, but still hasn’t found its first confirmed coronavirus case.

May 12, 2020 10:00 am EDT
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Commentary On Ahmaud Arbery’s Birthday, I Have A Challenge For White People Who Want To #RunWithMaud

A NC activist says people need to do more than talk after Ahmaud Arbery's shooting in Georgia. Here’s how to ‘make it count.'

May 8, 2020 12:59 pm EDT

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Commentary Former NC GOP Lawmaker: I’m Not A Never-Trumper. But The President Has Lost Me.

How the Republican Party, my party, was 'hijacked by a huckster' named Donald Trump in 2016. And why it makes me so angry.

April 30, 2020 9:26 am EDT
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Politics Guess Who Carole Baskin of Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’ Donated To

Carole Baskin, one of the most controversial characters in Netflix’s enormously popular “Tiger King” docuseries, donated $1,000 to North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr.

April 15, 2020 12:11 pm EDT