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[SoDu Alert] Governor Stein Issues Executive Order Protecting Reproductive Rights
Governor Josh Stein announced an executive order today reaffirming North Carolina’s commitment to safeguarding women’s reproductive freedoms. The order directs state agencies to protect medical privacy, ensure access to reproductive health care, and shield healthcare providers and patients from penalties under anti-abortion laws. Stay informed with our Southpoint Access newsletter! Spread the word by sharing…
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[Election 2024] Fight to Finish Will Determine Congressional Control
By LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent The final doors are being knocked, ads are blaring and candidates are making a last pitch to voters. Even with the high-energy final push, the races for control of Congress are at a stalemate, essentially a toss-up for the House, and fight to the finish for the Senate. The…
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[Election 2024] Robinson Battles on vs. Stein for N.C. Governor’s Office
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press Addressing over 100 supporters outside an ice cream stand that’s shaped like a giant strawberry, North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson battered his Democratic rival for governor and the media, and said he’d keep fighting as their race neared its conclusion. “I’m on the battlefield for the people…
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[Election 2024] Two U.S. House Members Compete for North Carolina Attorney General
By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press North Carolina’s next attorney general will be one of two outgoing members of Congress who have represented the Charlotte area on Capitol Hill and previously at the state legislature. Both Democratic U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson and Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop are lawyers and prolific fundraisers. Each has argued…
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[Election 2024] Abortion Bans Top of Mind for Young Women Voting in N.C.
By AMANDA SEITZ and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press The TikTok videos haunt 26-year-old Christy Kishbaugh. One seared into her memory shows a young mom talking about how several Idaho emergency rooms rejected her because of the state’s abortion ban, leaving her to bleed for weeks after a miscarriage. Kishbaugh sends videos like that to friends,…
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[Election 2024] Robinson Sues CNN Over Porn Site Report
By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson sued CNN on Tuesday over its recent report that he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board, calling the reporting reckless and defamatory. The lawsuit, filed in Wake County Superior Court, comes less than four weeks after…
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[Election 2024] Fierce N.C. Congressional Race May Hinge on Other Names on Ballot
By MAKIYA SEMINERA, Associated Press As Laurie Buckhout made her way around Nash County GOP headquarters in Rocky Mount, she seemed to be in high spirits. The Republican congressional candidate bounced around the crowded room, hugging and laughing with volunteers set to canvass local neighborhoods that afternoon. But a scandal emerging in North Carolina politics…
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[Election 2024] Robinson Vows to Stay in NC Governor Race Despite Media Report
From ASSOCIATED PRESS North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson vowed on Thursday to remain in the race despite a CNN report that he posted strongly worded racial and sexual comments on an online message board, saying he won’t be forced out by “salacious tabloid lies.” Robinson, the sitting lieutenant governor who decisively won his…
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[Election 2024] U.S. Senate Voting Again on IVF Protection
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press The U.S. Senate will vote for the second time this year on legislation that would establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization — Democrats’ latest election-year attempt to force Republicans into a defensive stance on women’s health issues. The bill, which the Senate will vote on Tuesday, has…
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[Election 2024] Harris, Trump Court Swing-State Voters Post Debate
By BILL BARROW, CHRIS MEGERIAN and JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump launched campaign blitzes Thursday with dramatically different approaches to attracting swing-state voters who will decide the presidential contest. In North Carolina, Democratic nominee Harris used rallies in Charlotte and Greensboro to tout endorsements from Republicans…
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[Election 2024] Takeaways from the Trump/Harris Debate
By STEVE PEOPLES, JONATHAN J. COOPER and NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press Donald Trump and Kamala Harris faced each other on the debate stage for the first — and possibly the last — time. The Democratic vice president opened Tuesday night’s faceoff with a power move, marching across the stage to Trump’s lectern to shake his…
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[Election 2024] Harris-Trump Debate: 2024’s Latest Landmark Event
By MICHELLE L. PRICE and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will meet for the first time face-to-face Tuesday night for perhaps their only debate, a high-pressure opportunity to showcase their starkly different visions for the country after a tumultuous campaign summer. The event, at 9 p.m. Eastern in…
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