Elena Giordano/Politico Donald Trump’s war on some of America’s most iconic colleges is a major opportunity for European academia and research. Now the EU is under pressure to seize it. University professors and research center directors across the continent see silver linings in the U.S. president’s crackdown on American higher...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press North Carolina officials on Wednesday downgraded anticipated state revenue collections compared to their recent forecast, largely over rising economic uncertainty and the risks of a U.S. recession. The adjustments agreed upon by economists working in Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s budget office and at the General...

Emily Thomas/Education NC The North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) announced a new rural advanced manufacturing toolkit featuring “innovative partnership models that are meeting the evolving workforce demands of the state’s advanced manufacturing sector, particularly in rural regions,” according to a recent press release. The new resource was created by...

Rachel Roubein & Lena H. Sun/The Washington Post  The Department of Health and Human Services is pulling millions of dollars it had committed to give Moderna to aid the effort to develop a vaccine to combat the bird flu in humans, the company announced Wednesday. Under President Joe Biden, HHS...

Mary Helen Moore/WUNC Radio For the first time, North Carolina’s commercial and recreational fishing industries are set to split the southern flounder catch 50-50 this year. That decision was made by the Marine Fisheries Commission last week in a 6-3 vote. After administrative approval, it will take effect in August....

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News The possibility of North Carolinians who depend on Medicaid being subject to a work requirement to keep their coverage has grown more plausible with the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of a GOP-backed budget bill that includes the measure. Legislation approved by the U.S. House on...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer How is Haywood’s vital tourism economy faring in the wake of Helene? It’s a tricky question to answer, with only one full season — and winter at that — behind us. It’s made all the more difficult by the fact that a key metric to measure...

Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Just beyond a wooded area that marks Paws Place Dog Rescue’s east-facing property line, signs of neighbors to come dot the horizon. Rooftops of two-story houses in various stages of construction peek over treetops in a new development cropping up on one side of the rescue’s...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio The family of a male student at Ardrey Kell High School has filed a lawsuit against a female student, her family, and community activists who claimed the teen in March attacked her in a hate crime because she is Muslim. The lawsuit names both students, but WFAE...

Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald District Court Judge Jason P. Kimball was censured Friday, May 23, by the North Carolina Supreme Court. The censure for being drunk on a working day, disrespecting a state trooper and other factors follows a recommendation by the Judicial Standards Commission. Kimball’s censure was based...

Paul Woolverton/CityView The Fayetteville Public Works Commission has not given up on its plan to build a $9.5 million solar farm off Ramsey Street just north of Fayetteville after the Cumberland County Commissioners on May 19 threw a roadblock in the project’s path. The electric utility’s board held a closed-door...

Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline The Trump administration is suing the state Board of Elections over what it says are violations of federal law for failing to maintain an accurate voter registration file. In a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday, the U.S. Justice Department said the lack of driver’s license numbers,...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Hundreds of millions of dollars, from taxpayers in North Carolina, are going to help continue the cleanup from Hurricane Helene following FEMA’s second rejection. Democratic Gov. Josh Stein said despite the administrative setback from the Trump administration, “We will keep pushing the federal and state governments...

Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC Undergraduate enrollment increased by 3.5% in spring 2025 from spring 2024, according to new estimates from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, with 15.3 million students enrolled in undergraduate programs across the country. “Enrollment increased for all undergraduate credential types,” the report’s landing page says. “Bachelor’s...

Jacob Willeford/The Sun Some of the largest financial institutions in the United States could be quietly planning moves away from physical cash. Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo may dive into cryptocurrency amid the impending removal of the penny. The banks are considering the option of a...