November 24th, 2025

Chatham/North Carolina

AI

• ABC11: AG Jackson Reaches $7 Million Settlement With Largest Landlord in NC Over AI Rent Setting

DOGE

• IndyWeek: Federal Funding Cuts May Drive Triangle Area Dems to the Polls in 2026

Education

• WUNC: A Year of Upheaval: How Much NC Public School Funding Was Affected By Federal Cuts and Delays

Elections

• Carolina Public Press: Turnover in NC Board of Elections Staff Follows Shift in Control

Environment

• Cardinal & Pine: Report: Pesticide Banned in 70+ Countries Widely Used in NC

• WFAE: Clean Energy Jobs in North Carolina Continued to Rise in 2024, Even as Renewable Energy Took a Hit

Health Care

• American Journal News: Whatley Calls for Replacing Obamacare With ‘Market-Driven Solutions’

• Carolina Public Press: Is NC Law Limiting Health Services Constitutional? Judges Weigh Question in New Bern Ophthalmology Case

Hemp Industry

• NC Newsline: NC Politicians Have Flocked to the Hemp Industry. This Former Governor is One of Them.

• NC Newsline: NC Alerts Sex-ed Teaching Partners to Curriculum Changes Required by Federal Directive

Hurricane Helene

• The Assembly NC: Damning New Report Outlines Failures at N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency

Immigration

• ABC11: Border Patrol Presence Leads to School Absences, Business Closures Across Triangle

• Aljazeera: North Carolina Officials Say US Border Patrol Has Ended Charlotte Operation

• Associated Press: Arrests Now Top 250 in Immigration Crackdown Across North Carolina

• Axios: Immigration Agents Arrive in the Triangle

• Cardinal & Pine: As Border Patrol Arrives in Raleigh, Advocates Offer Warnings and Advice

• Cardinal & Pine: Arrest Details in NC Rebut Border Patrol’s ‘Worst of the Worst’ Claims

• Cardinal & Pine: Charlotte Immigration Crackdown Goes On, Homeland Security Says, Despite Sheriff Saying It Ended

• Chapelboro: ICE Has Arrived in the Triangle. Here’s a Guide of Resources To Use.

• IndyWeek: K-12 Absences Spike as Federal Immigration Agents Arrive in the Triangle

• NBC News: Immigration Arrests Reported in Raleigh-Durham Area, Though Large-Scale Operation Hasn’t Materialized

• The Assembly NC: Law and Orders

• The Assembly NC: Where Are the Border Patrol People Detained in North Carolina?

• The Assembly NC: ‘It’s Very Bleak’

• The Living South: The South Has Seen Masked Kidnappers Before

• This American Life: Under One Roof

Justice

• The Assembly NC: The New Head of N.C.’s Prisons Tries To Unwind a Staffing Quagmire

• WRAL: NC Bar Rebukes GOP Push To Publicize Employees’ Political Affiliations

Redistricting

• Cardinal & Pine: Federal Judges Uphold Several North Carolina US House Districts Drawn by Republicans

• Carolina Public Press: Federal Judges Appear Skeptical of Arguments Against New NC Congressional Map

• Carolina Public Press: Judge Upholds NC Congressional Map Redrawn by Legislators in 2023. No Word on Challenge to Change in 2025.

• WXII: Federal Court Hearing Over North Carolina’s New Congressional Maps Lawsuit Happening in Winston-Salem

U.S./International

AI

• Politico: White House Prepares Executive Order To Block State AI Laws

Dick Cheney

• CNN: Bush, Biden, and Former Vice Presidents Honor Dick Cheney, While Trump, Vance Snubbed for Funeral Invitation

Economy

• CBS News: America’s Deepening Affordability Crisis Summed Up in 5 Charts

• NY Times: The Evening: Mixed Economic Signals

Elections

• NPR: Poll: Democrats Have Biggest Advantage for Control of Congress in 8 Years

• NY Times: On Politics: California, the Unlikely Center of 2025 Politics

Environment

• ABC News: EPA Proposes Changes to Clean Water Act: What the Changes Mean

• NY Times: The Morning: Polluting Wetlands

Epstein Files

• NBC News: Whistleblower Who Provided House Democrats With Ghislaine Maxwell Documents Speaks Out

• NPR: The Latest Epstein Emails Reveal the Powerful People Who Sought His Counsel

• NY Times: The Evening: Congress Passes Bill Seeking Epstein Files

• Politico: House Demands Epstein Financial Records from JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and US Virgin Islands

FEMA

• Associated Press: Trump Administration Makes Major Changes to a Report it Commissioned on FEMA Reforms, Sources Say

GOP Data Seizure Payouts

• Politico: House Unanimously Rebukes Thune on Data Seizure Payouts

Health Care

• NBC News: GOP Set To Let Obamacare Subsidies Expire and the Battle To Succeed Pelosi: Morning Rundown

• Politico: House GOP Leaders Pitch Members on Addressing ‘Unaffordable Care Act’

• Politico: Who is the Democrat Talking With Trump on Health Policy?

• Politico: Looming Affordability Crisis Set To Hit Americans With Health Insurance Through Work

• The Hill: House Dems Demand Johnson Hold ACA Vote

Immigration

• CNN: Amid Anti-Immigration Sentiment and Policies, the US Latino Population Grows and Cultural Traditions Remain

• NY Times: The Morning: How Immigrants Feel

• Politico: ‘My Poll Numbers Just Went Down’: Trump Defends Skilled Immigration, Breaking With MAGA Base

Justice

• Associated Press: Judge Tosses DOJ Lawsuit Challenging a New York Law Barring Immigration Agents from State Courts

LGBTQ

• ABC News: HHS Finalizes Report on Gender-Affirming Care for Youth, Medical Groups Push Back

Political Retribution

• MS NOW: Grand Jury Investigating Potential Misconduct in Probes of Trump Critics

• The Hill: DOJ Admits Full Grand Jury Never Reviewed Final Comey Indictment, Further Imperiling Case

Redistricting

• CBS News: What Happens to California’s Redistricting After Texas’ Congressional Maps Were Struck Down in Court?

• CNN: ‘I Dissent,’ Judge Says 16 Times in 100-Page Broadside Against Colleagues in Texas Redistricting Case

• NBC News: Supreme Court Temporarily Reinstates Texas Republicans’ Redrawn Congressional Map

• Politico: Meet the Trump-Appointed Judge Who Could Cost Republicans the House

• Politico: Supreme Court Set To Wade Into a Case That Could Tip the Scales for the Midterms

• Politico: ‘Utterly Foolish’: Redistricting Roadblocks Leave Republicans Wary of White House Push

SNAP Benefits

• Associated Press: What To Know About Expanded Work Requirements About To Kick In for SNAP

• Newsweek: SNAP Benefits Update: USDA To ‘Completely Deconstruct’ Program

Tariffs

• Axios: Worried About $2,000 Tariff Check Inflation? Don’t Spend It, Bessent Says

Trump Presidency

• CBS News: Bill Targeting White House Ballroom Donations Introduced by Democrats

• NY Times: On Politics: Why the ‘America First’ President Keeps Looking Abroad

• NY Times: The Morning: President Trump’s Power

Ukraine

• Axios: Scoop: Trump Plan Asks Ukraine To Cede Additional Territory for Security Guarantee

• CNBC: Ukraine Under Pressure Amid Reports Russia and U.S. Have Devised a Secret Peace Plan

Zohran Mamdani

• NY Times: The Morning: An Unlikely Pair

• NY Times: The Evening: Trump Embraces Mamdani