Charlotte City Council member Victoria Watlington on Thursday walked back some of the explosive allegations she made Tuesday in an email to constituents that was titled “Power Corrupts.”Watlington was upset about how the city handled a six-figure financial settlement with police chief Johnny Jennings.

North Carolina's new elections board was sworn in on Wednesday. In their first meeting this morning, the board—which now has a 3-2 Republican majority—selected Republican Francis DeLuca as their new chair. They also dismissed the state's executive director Karen Brinson Bell, who was appointed by former Democratic governor Roy Cooper in 2019, declining to renew her appointment for another two-year term. They voted to hire Republican attorney Samuel Hayes instead.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles began her third term in 2022, and many wonder will her name be on the ballot in November.

The North Carolina House passed a bill Wednesday to direct state agencies to vet residents’ immigration status before providing them benefits. The bill includes the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Commerce, and the University of North Carolina system.

The bill's sponsor said Senate Bill 484 seeks to balance the rights of protesters and those of employers and their workers.

There's new tariffs on almost everything that is imported. Some of that increased cost is being eaten by exporters in other countries, but a lot of the higher prices are being picked up by Americans, who are seeing it in their receipts.

Two dozen states allow citizens to propose ballot measures. But Republican lawmakers in many of those states are now adding hurdles to those efforts, saying they want to combat fraud.

Most Americans balk at the idea of charging women who get abortions with homicide, but post-Roe, militant anti-abortion activists are finding state lawmakers are increasingly open to it.

An Environmental Protection Agency plan to eliminate its Energy Star offices would end a decades-old program that gave consumers a choice to buy environmentally friendly electronics and save money on bills, consumer and environmental groups said.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles held a news conference Wednesday afternoon after City Council member Victoria Watlington sent an email to residents accusing the city of being corrupt and unethical.