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HILL: Can we keep the Sanctity of the American Vote?
16+ hour, 41+ min ago (557+ words) As we turn the page to the next 250 years of the United States of America (hopefully), it is a good time to look at how democratic socialists around the nation have run various cities, towns and states and extrapolate what…...
Bitcoin kiosk operators concerned North Carolina bill is a 'quasi-ban"
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1112+ words) RALEIGH " Bitcoin kiosk operator Byte Federal wants to make lawmakers aware of issues in a bill moving through the General Assembly that could spell an end to their business conducted in North Carolina. The bill in question is the Virtual…...
Krest: World Cup visitors give us a lesson in fandom
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (571+ words) More than half the games have already been played in World Cup 2026. Amazingly, officials have not missed a single call. No one got the benefit of an unfair draw while another team got jobbed in a clearly biased scheduling trick....
Trump unveils new Air Force One
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (501+ words) JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. " President Donald Trump showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet that has been converted into the official U. S. presidential aircraft. The new aircraft eschews the Kennedy-era robin's egg blue exterior of the old…...
Toy Story 5" delivers familiarity, laughs; still worst in franchise
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (687+ words) The North State Journal Simply put, "Toy Story" is my favorite movie franchise of all time. The 1995 original about cowboy doll Woody (Tom Hanks) fighting for relevance against hi-tech spaceman action figure Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) was a groundbreaking first…...
Charter schools enrollment up, waitlists down
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (733+ words) RALEIGH " The annual report on North Carolina's Public Charter Schools released this month by the North Carolina State Board of Education shows enrollment is up and waitlists figures have fallen. The 2026 report says there are 211 public charter schools operating in…...
Cuba pushes through sweeping free-market reforms
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (626+ words) HAVANA " Observers last week called Cuba's new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul of the island's communist economy since the Cuban revolution, as the grandson of former President Ra'l Castro said in an interview that Cuba must seek to…...
Education Department opens Title IX investigation into Buncombe County Schools " The North State Journal
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (461+ words) RALEIGH "The U. S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has opened an Title IX investigation into Buncombe County Schools. The investigation by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) was opened to find out whether Buncombe County Schools violated Title IX…...
Jenna Bush Hager imprint release now in Oprah's book club
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (299+ words) NEW YORK " Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick also has the blessing of a second literary tastemaker, Jenna Bush Hager. Winfrey announced last week that she had selected Sophie Chen Keller's "Little Wonder," which has just been published. Keller's novel…...
BARONE: Not following the example of President James K. Polk
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (669+ words) A president orders the onset of hostilities " war " without authorization of Congress and without much in the way of making a case with the public. His troops win important victories and decapitate large parts of the government of the enemy....