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Tennessee House Republicans voted to vacate the Tennessee State Board of Trustees, leaving Governor Bill Lee to appoint new members.

Kevin Wurm/ReutersTennessee’s majority-white legislature removed, in one fell swoop, all 10 board members at the state’s only publicly funded historically Black university on Thursday, a move Democrats slammed.Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who is white, signed legislation approved by the GOP-controlled House on Thursday vacating Tennessee State University’s board and appointed eight new members, mostly from the business sector, to replace them.“I’m pleased to appoi...

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RALEIGH, N.C. — It’s official: North Carolina Republican House Speaker Tim Moore will run for Congress. Moore has said several times in the past few weeks that he is getting

RALEIGH, N.C. — It’s official: North Carolina Republican House Speaker Tim Moore will run for Congress. Moore has said several times in the past few weeks that he is getting

“Thirty years ago,” Damon Linker told The Guardian , “if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right are waiting in the wings to impose a dictatorship on the United States, you would have said that I was insane.” ...

Yes, State Treasurer Dale Folwell might have sounded a little like the guy who informs you that “Whew, it’s really hot” on a 98-degree day.

Yes, State Treasurer Dale Folwell might have sounded a little like the guy who informs you that “Whew, it’s really hot” on a 98-degree day.

NC senators: Our legislature is shifting shift toward authoritarian rule

North Carolina legislative leaders make policy part of the state budget. Here are a range of new powers lawmakers have given themselves.