2+ hour, 12+ min ago   (636+ words) On July 20, the Trump administration made quite an admission. In his proclamation to “adjust imports” into the United States, Trump confessed that his secretary of commerce has informed him that “despite the benefits from the aluminum tariff regime, the domestic…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (593+ words) The valuation trends up and down, but one thing’s for sure: Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire this summer. At the height of the SpaceX IPO, he was briefly worth around $1.45 trillion. Then SpaceX stock tanked, rallied, then tanked…...

7+ hour, 12+ min ago   (460+ words) North Carolina’s new commission on teacher compensation has an opportunity to move the state beyond the familiar debate over pay raises and rankings and build an entirely better pay system. A pay structure that rewards effectiveness, leadership, hard-to-staff assignments and…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (603+ words) Can you remember the name of the last whole book you read? How long ago was it? If you can’t remember, you aren’t alone. An American Time Use Survey of 236,000 by The National Endowment for the Arts revealed that only…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (585+ words) It was 40 years ago this week that I wrote my first column for North Carolina newspapers. Still in journalism school at UNC-Chapel Hill, I was interning that summer at two outlets based in Nash County: the Spring Hope Enterprise, which…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (516+ words) By the time a North Carolina toddler turns 2, there’s a 40% chance they already have their own tablet. A 2025 report from Common Sense Media found that screen time at home for young children now averages about two and a half hours…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (365+ words) Earlier this month, CNBC announced that North Carolina is the No. 1 state for the economy, the No. 2 state for business and the No. 3 state for workforce. Gov. Josh Stein said he was “proud that we announced a record-breaking number of…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (466+ words) In 2024, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport stole, and completely erased all data from, Sam Tunick’s phone. Now he’s the one charged with a crime. Unbeknownst to Tunick, his name appeared on a “watch list” due…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (451+ words) Immigration of foreign-born individuals moving to the U.S. has sparked serious debates about the pros and cons of the movement. Of particular concern has been the large number of immigrants who bypassed the established process of entering the country. Estimates of…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (360+ words) If formal surveys and social-media tracking offer useful signals — flawed as they may be, they’re superior to motivated reasoning or rank speculation — affordability tops the priority list for those most likely to cast ballots this fall. Some of these concerns…...