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Rattles lewiston, maine. Amna Israeli Forces conduct a raid into gaza in preparation for a Ground Invasion as the u. N. Strains to shelter more than 600,000 displaced palestinians. Geoff and childcare remains a significant barrier to millions of people needing to appear in court over lowlevel offenses. People assume folks are missing court because theyre trying to evade justice or evade prosecution. But oftentimes theres things that are happening in peoples lives that are preventing them from sh...

On the newshour tonight, Mass Shootings kill at least 18 people and a massive manhunt rattles lewiston, maine. Amna Israeli Forces conduct a raid into gaza in preparation for a Ground Invasion as the u. N. Strains to shelter more than 600,000 displaced palestinians. Geoff and childcare remains a significant barrier to millions of people needing to appear in court over lowlevel offenses. People assume folks are missing court because theyre trying to evade justice or evade prosecution. But oftenti...

Musicians Liang Wang and Matthew Muckey were fired from the New York Philharmonic for sexual misconduct. Why are they back playing with the orchestra?

House Speaker Mike Johnson will face the same struggle that plagued his predecessor, a narrow GOP majority. He will have to protect it in next year's elections and redistricting could complicate that. North Carolina has new congressional maps and a judge tossed out Georgia's maps. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Mark Niesse of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Rusty Jacobs of WUNC Public Radio.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will face the same struggle that plagued his predecessor, a narrow GOP majority. He will have to protect it in next year's…

A Senate committee debated GOP measures that would alter rules governing North Carolina elections.

A string of recent state Supreme Court decisions and proposed changes by Republican lawmakers have elections administrators scrambling ahead of the 2023 municipal elections.

A Senate committee debated GOP measures that would alter rules governing North Carolina elections.

The new cloud-based system meant to replace the state's 1980s-era mainframe and paper-based court files rolled out in four pilot counties back in February, but a launch in Mecklenburg has been delayed indefinitely.

Politics Reporter from WUNC Public Radio, Rusty Jacobs, was featured in this interview on April 12, 2023. Rusty talked about North Carolina GOP Bills about deadlines for voting ballots and the pro and cons of The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) and state leaders thought about using it. Keeping voter information safe is the key.