Jonah Valdez/The Intercept The Trump administration is expanding its campaign against international students to target not just those active in pro-Palestine advocacy, but also students entirely uninvolved in protests and campus activism. With little or no justification, the Trump administration is revoking the visas and immigration statuses of hundreds of...

Morgan Casey/CityView Fort Bragg’s over 50,000 active-duty military personnel, and their families, are gaining an additional local support system. Blue Star Families, a national nonprofit military family support network, is launching the Fayetteville Greater Region Chapter to help the families of service members build community. The chapter provides seven counties...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A non–profit is sounding alarm bells on the state of housing in Haywood County. Rent prices have become increasingly unattainable for the working class. Making matters worse, the federal government has frozen funds for a voucher program that covers the gap between what low-income renters can...

Paige Gross/NC Newsline The next time you’re on a Zoom meeting or asking ChatGPT a question, picture this: The information zips instantaneously through a room of hot, humming servers, traveling hundreds, possibly thousands of miles, before it makes its way back to you in just a second or two. It...

Mebane Rash/Education NC North Carolina’s community college system is 58 colleges strong, and no longer are they the state’s best kept secret. April is Community College Month, according to the Association of Community College Trustees, and this year EdNC is surfacing stories about why attending community college is the “best...

Heidi S. Skinner/Coastal Review Online Often mistaken for moss, lichens are actually quite different. Like mosses, lichens are found all over the world, with somewhere between 12-18,000 known varieties. The number is probably way more, as new specimens are being discovered every year. America has 3,600 different named lichens, while...

Politico President Donald Trump reversed course in the global trade war he launched just a week ago, announcing in a social media post a 90-day pause on new tariffs against every country but China. That came just hours after Trump urged the country to “BE COOL” in another post that...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Wiley Nickel of North Carolina announced on Wednesday his candidacy to try to unseat Sen. Thom Tillis in 2026, saying a “fighter for what’s right for our state” is needed and criticizing the Republican incumbent for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda....

Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A triumphant victory in mining rock for Interstate 40 slide repairs from the nearby national forest was announced by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration two weeks ago — but the reality isn’t quite what was telegraphed by the agency. A press release declared that the federal...

Korie Dean/The (Raleigh) News & Observer The federal government has terminated the visas of half a dozen international students at UNC-Chapel Hill, according to the university’s media relations office. According to a statement from the office provided to The News & Observer, the university’s International Student and Scholars Services office...

Andrew Beaton/The Wall Street Journal Florida just came back from a double-digit deficit to stun Houston and win the NCAA tournament. But while the Gators can call themselves national champions, they still can’t claim to be the most valuable program in college basketball. That distinction belongs to a team that...

Rachel Hagan & Archana Shukla/BBC US President Donald Trump says he will soon announce “major” tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals, a move that could end decades of low-cost global trade in medicines. For years, most countries, including the US, have imposed few or no tariffs on finished drugs, thanks in part...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily One New Hanover County Schools board member is facing an impending censure vote, yet the reasoning behind it has remained under wraps. He is now considering litigation over improper procedure and defamation. Tim Merrick found out Saturday night that his colleague, chair of New Hanover County...

Rebecca Noel/The Charlotte Observer The federal government has terminated the student visas of six international students at UNC Charlotte, a university spokesperson told The Charlotte Observer Wednesday. The affected students are citizens of India and Nigeria, university officials said, and all of the terminations took place over the last week....

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio  About 50 educators gathered in the parking lot across from the Guilford County Board of Education building, chanting and holding signs — many of which said “One Job Should Be Enough.” Rondeshia Wallace, the cafeteria manager at Peck Elementary School, was one of several speakers. “When I...