Top 10 2. Trump is using a nearly 50-year-old law to justify new tariffs. It may not be legal. Ari Hawkins/Politico President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China may be illegal under the Constitution. But blocking...
Top 10 3. Divided visions stall progress at Elizabethtown Industrial Park Ben Rappaport/Border Belt Independent Bladen County wants its money back. The county gave Elizabethtown $100,000 in April 2023 to create...
Top 10 4. Trump’s DOT: Want highways and transit? Get married, have babies. Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Trump administration said last week that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award grant money for...
Top 10 5. Pilots have long worried about DC’s complex airspace contributing to a catastrophe Ryan J. Foley, Jim Mustian & Michael Biesecker/The Associated Press The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex —...
Top 10 6. Waiting for heating oil? Blame demand, not supply Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) (Mountaineer The telephone at McElroy Oil began ringing off the hook about three days before the cold...
Top 10 7. Financial pressures loom for Saint Augustine’s as HBCU continues accreditation fight Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio The pressure is mounting for Saint Augustine’s University to balance its finances. The private HBCU has $32...
Top 10 8. When ICE comes to church Andy Olsen/Christianity Today When federal agents took her husband away, Kenia Colindres was fasting. It helped her listen for God,...
Top 10 9. Gone to the dogs: NC county’s animal control has been a pet peeve for many Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Whose job is it to protect local pets? State law is vague. Because of that, the...
Top 10 10. NC moves to end police involvement in transporting mental health patients Taylor Knopf/NC Health News When someone is having a mental health crisis — whether they’re thinking about suicide, acting erratically...
Top 10 1. Third Black Hawk crew member involved in deadly crash near DC airport identified as Durham native and UNC grad Tom Bowman/WUNC Radio The Army released the name of the third crew member of the Black Hawk helicopter that slammed...
Top 10 2. Mark Robinson drops lawsuit against CNN, says political career may be over Will Doran/WRAL News Mark Robinson is dropping his lawsuit against CNN — and potentially calling it quits on his political...
Top 10 3. Trump fires chief of the federal consumer watchdog agency Laurel Wamsley & James Doubek/WFAE Radio The Trump administration has fired Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection...
Top 10 4. North Carolina Supreme Court upholds law that allowed 2 more years for child sex abuse suits Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press North Carolina’s highest court upheld on Friday a law that gave adult victims of child...
Top 10 5. Duke professor-led biotech company raises $175 million to advance epigenome editing therapy clinical trials Srilakshmi Venkatesan/The (Duke) Chronicle Tune Therapeutics, a Durham biotechnology startup co-founded by a Duke professor, announced the completion of its...
Top 10 6. Three years on, still assessing the health, legal aspects of Winston-Salem fertilizer plant fire Anne Blythe & Will Atwater/NC Health News Three years have passed since a massive fire broke out at the Winston...
