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The privately managed Medicare Advantage portion of Medicare is the subject of broad differences of opinion over its cost — including, regulators say, an eye-popping $15 billion in excess payments made in 2021.
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Legislation from the North Carolina House that would toughen punishments for violent protests has now cleared a Senate committee. The bill, being shepherded by House Speaker Tim Moore, came in response to 2020 demonstrations over racial injustice and unrest that led to some rioting and looting.
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The four had traveled together from the Carolinas so one of them could get a tummy tuck surgery in Matamoros, where Friday’s kidnapping took place, officials said. One of the survivors was identified as a North Carolina man.
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When a friend gave Beth Coiner two delicate fishbones she had found on the beach, Coiner knew she wanted to create a pair of earrings out of the slender filaments with tiny razor tooth edges, but she never anticipated they would end up in a comedy horror film.
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Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Rhiannon Giddens received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Davidson College this week and then took the stage to perform a set of original and traditional North Carolina tunes on banjo and fiddle.
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Gov. Roy Cooper directed a letter to North Carolina's congressional delegation on Tuesday asking for long-term, recurring child care funding "to keep our children learning and our economy growing."
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The North Carolina Senate voted on Tuesday to legalize marijuana use for medical purposes, giving strong bipartisan support for the second year in a row to an idea that its supporters say would give relief to those with debilitating or life-ending illnesses.
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A man convicted of mail bombings in North Carolina's capital city nearly three decades ago that severely injured his wife and damaged an office building has been resentenced to more prison time after two of his previous convictions were vacated.
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The North Carolina General Assembly began a repeat effort Wednesday to require all sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigration agents who are interested in picking up certain jail inmates.
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More than 1,000 health care providers across North Carolina have signed a letter urging lawmakers to oppose any new abortion restrictions beyond the current 20-week limit. Several physicians who wrote and signed the letter spoke Wednesday about how the existing ban already interferes with their work and puts patients at risk.