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The prison death last week of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has elevated fears for the welfare of politically active prisoners in neighboring Azerbaijan, including economist Gubad Ibadoglu. "As his family, we are worried that my brother may be physically destroyed in the conditions of the detention center," Ibadoglu's brother, Qalib Toghrul, told VOA. Toghrul…

(The Center Square) – Overseeing and creating policy in North Carolina’s county or state elections will not be done as is happening in San Francisco.

Congressman from North Carolina asks why a new line speed study is necessary, and if those conducting the study are biased against the poultry industry.

Linwood Scott III climbs two-story tobacco cropping machines with real agility and apparently no thought to falling. The sixth-generation tobacco farmer is proud of his machinery, upgraded 20 years ago and therefore relatively new. He delights in every tool and accoutrement of the cropping, curing, and baling process: every trailer, every sawed-off school bus that pulls those trailers, every conveyor belt, every one of his 200 small curing barns.Scott, in his early fifties, is from Lucama, North

USDA’s 2024 Ag Outlook Forum kicks off today with an address from Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack and Chief Economist Seth Meyer’s outlook on the U.S. farm economy.

GOP lawmakers from across several states signed on to an Amicus brief in support of Texas as it defends itself in court against the DOJ over its new immigration law.

GOP lawmakers from across several states signed on to an Amicus brief in support of Texas as it defends itself in court against the DOJ over its new immigration law.

Leaders of both parties are calling on Congress to quickly pass a revised Farm Bill before funds run out this summer — but tensions are re-emerging over the key ideological divide that helped scuttle last year’s farm bill. Members of both parties expressed the importance of not cutting popular food aid and conservation programs, but…

NORTH CAROLINA — A local Congressman recently sent a letter to the Biden administration calling for action to address the Houthi blockade in Yemen…

A hearing has been set for the North Carolina Rate Bureau’s request to raise homeowners’ insurance premiums after Commissioner Mike Causey rejected the request.