North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson has joined 24 Democratic-led states in suing the Trump administration over the latest round of sweeping tariffs. The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Trump’s first round of tariffs in February, ruling that the executive branch doesn’t have the power to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Trump […]

(The Center Square) – The California Department of Justice has spent $19.2 million in the last 18 months in 82 different lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s administration, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Tuesday morning.

North Carolina Democrats are closing the gap in two key congressional races in the state, political forecasters say, despite a new district map passed last year aimed at boxing them out of close House seats. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, one of the top-cited election forecasts in the U.S., updated its assessment of North Carolina’s 1st and […]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be reopening a for-profit prison in Winton, North Carolina, as one of the largest immigrant detention facilities on the East Coast, according to reports from the New York Times. The report cited internal ICE documents showing plans for a mass detention center in the former Rivers Correctional Institution with […]

Half of Alaska’s economic growth from 2015 to 2023 came from one source.  Not oil, which added perhaps $4.5 billion over that stretch.  Not mining or fishing, which together added less than a quarter of that.  Federal spending grew by nearly $9 billion over those years, against roughly $16.5 billion in total state GDP growth.  […]