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North Carolina to defy feds on LGBT law: ‘We’re not going to get bullied’

June 22, 2019 at 11:05 p.m.

A political showdown between North Carolina and the federal government loomed Thursday as Republican state leaders vowed to defy the U.S. Justice Department's deadline to repeal the state's contentious new...

Protester Mitch Xia, facing the camera, gets a hug from Zakyree Wallace during a March protest in Chapel Hill, N.C., over state legislation reversing a Charlotte ordinance extending some rights to people who are transgender or gay.

The South’s new divide: Blue cities and red states

May 17, 2019 at 11:43 p.m.

At first, Rick Scot was hesitant to trade in West Hollywood for a new home in North Carolina. Working as a vice-president at a Fortune 500 company in a state...

Senior Deputy Ben Fields forcibly removes a student after she refused to leave her high school math class in Columbia, S.C.

S.C. girl thrown from desk by officer had put cellphone away: attorney

June 24, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

The South Carolina student thrown from her seat by a school police officer had obeyed orders to put her cellphone away, and the dispute arose because she did not put...

South Carolina residents rush to higher ground as 14 dams fail

August 21, 2019 at 5:54 p.m.

Days after a record torrent of rain flooded parts of South Carolina, Cedric Williams found himself once again watching water flow like a river through his frontyard. For the second...

Judge says sect children at risk

August 22, 2021 at 12:06 a.m.

A judge ruled Friday evening that 416 children seized by authorities during a raid on a polygamous sect's compound are at risk of sexual abuse if they stay with the...

FEMA plans trailer exodus

August 21, 2021 at 11:49 p.m.

GULFPORT, Miss. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday that it would accelerate efforts to get victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita out of government-supplied trailers. Tests showed the...

Court overturns sex conviction

August 21, 2021 at 3:45 p.m.

Genarlow Wilson -- the young man imprisoned for committing a consensual sex act who became, for many, an example of inequitable criminal justice -- was released from prison Friday after...

Movement preaches gospel of manliness

August 21, 2021 at 12:22 p.m.

The strobe lights pulse and the air vibrates to a killer rock beat. Giant screens show mayhem and gross-out pranks: a car wreck, a sucker punch, a flabby (and naked)...

Foley furor intensifies fears in the GOP closet

August 21, 2021 at 10:09 a.m.

At the Republican National Convention in 2000, Rep. Mark Foley threw a late-night bash at a Philadelphia gay bar, where an acquaintance snapped a photo of an attractive young intern...

Waterlogged Florida fears Katrina encore

August 22, 2021 at 2:40 p.m.

One day after Katrina delivered a soggy surprise wallop to some of Miami's southwestern suburbs, where streets and neighborhoods were underwater Friday, emergency planners in Florida were bracing for a...

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