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The 2025 government shutdown is about to enter its second week, with Democrats and Republicans still unable to agree on a federal funding deal.It's the first government shutdown since 2019, when federal agencies were shuttered for 35 days.Both sides have been blaming the other for the dysfunction in Washington; Democrats are accusing Republicans of letting healthcare premiums go up for millions of Americans, while the GOP is blaming the left […]

Multiple police union leaders have requested or supported federal law enforcement assistance to counter rising rates of violent crime in their cities, including in Charlotte, where the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska drew national attention. But, at least one union leader reversed course after city officials rejected the idea as illegal and unnecessary. On Thursday, the Fraternal Order of Police in Charlotte's Mecklenburg County became the latest police union to invite […]

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Friday signed "Iryna's Law," which increases checks on criminals getting out on bail and prohibits cashless bail for some violent crimes and most repeat offenders following the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte light-rail train in August. Stein, a Democrat, has said he doesn’t like every part of the bill that was passed by the Republican-controlled state Legislature, which also looks to […]

Democrats want to remove a provision of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA) before reopening the government, but Republicans argue the line item they want removed is allowing California to use a "loophole" to draw down funds from the federal government to help pay for the state's ballooning cost of healthcare for illegal immigrants.The White House released a memo on Wednesday during the first day of the government shutdown […]