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Durham School Officials Reaffirm Safety Commitment in Wake of Minneapolis Mass Shooting
Support our Southpoint Summer fundraiser on GoFundMe! After a shooting in Minneapolis that killed at least two children and wounded 17 other people, Durham Public Schools leaders issued a statement reassuring the local community that student safety remains their top priority. The shooter, 23, is reported to have taken their own life after opening fire…
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SoDu We Like WEIRD News? December 2024
Sign Up For the Southpoint Access Newsletter! Look, I earned my stripes as a professional journalist covering strange stuff in Florida for The St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) – from an armadillo assassin to a bunch of cattle running loose on Interstate 75 to the mysterious Bayport Boomerang that baffled skywatchers decades before drones troubled the…
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[Election 2024] Results Dashboard for North Carolina
Working in partnership with The Associated Press, Southpoint Access is providing results of the 2024 General Election in North Carolina.
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[Election 2024] What to Watch on Election Day
Polls are open in Durham until 7:30 p.m. By STEVE PEOPLES, AP National Political Writer It’s Election Day. Polls opened Tuesday across the nation and Americans cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election. In a deeply divided nation, the election is a true toss-up between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. We know seven…
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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] Human Nature More Hackable Than Election System
By DAVID KLEPPER and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, Associated Press Hacking a local election system in the United States wouldn’t be easy, and secretly altering votes on a scale massive enough to change the outcome of the presidential race would be impossible, election officials have said, thanks to decentralized systems, paper records for nearly all ballots,…
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[Election 2024] Could A Trump Win Change Mortgage System – and Make Them Pricier?
By R.J. RICO, Associated Press If Donald Trump wins the presidential election, Republicans hope he will fulfill a longstanding GOP goal of privatizing the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have been under government control since the Great Recession. But Democrats and some economists warn that, especially in this time of high mortgage…
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[Election 2024] AP Decision Notes: What to Expect in North Carolina on Election Day
By ROBERT YOON, Associated Press North Carolina voters will cast ballots for president and governor in the Nov. 5 general election while many in the state are still dealing with the aftermath and massive destruction caused by Hurricane Helene. The Tar Heel State is one of a handful of competitive presidential battlegrounds that will likely…
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[Election 2024] Trump and Harris Navigate Storm, Rollercoaster Governor’s Race in NC
By BILL BARROW, Associated Press Renee Kyro already has voted for Republican nominee Donald Trump for the third consecutive presidential election. But she plans to volunteer for the first time, reaching out to her neighbors in hurricane-battered western North Carolina to make sure they have a voting plan amid a flurry of precinct changes. “I…
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[Election 2024] North Carolina Sees Strong Early Voting, Despite Helene Obstacles
By MAKIYA SEMINERA AND JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press Turnout for early in-person voting started strong Thursday in the presidential battleground of North Carolina, including in mountainous areas where Hurricane Helene destroyed property and upended lives but apparently did not dampen a fierce desire to participate in elections. More than 400 early voting sites opened as…
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[Election 2024] Harris Calls Out Trump from NC Pulpit
By JOSH BOAK, AAMER MADHANI, and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press Kamala Harris used an appearance Sunday before a largely Black church audience in battleground North Carolina to call out Donald Trump for spreading misinformation about the government’s hurricane response. President Joe Biden visited Florida for the second time this month to survey storm damage. Harris,…
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[Election 2024] Data Shows Migrants Aren’t Taking Jobs from Blacks, Hispanics
By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promises the biggest deportation event the U.S. has ever seen if he is elected — a promise he has predicated, in part, on the notion that immigrants in the U.S. legally and illegally are stealing what he calls “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs.” But government…
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