(The Center Square) – South Carolina Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott has called on the Biden administration to cease new rulemaking and withdraw several pending agency nominations.
Scott, ranking member of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs... Read more
(The Center Square) – Samaritan's Purse is among a number of nonprofits that helped cleanup efforts after Hurricane Helene. In the video below, watch Jodie Yoder, U.S. Disaster Relief program manager for Samaritan's Purse, describe the work outside a site in Asheville, North Carolina.
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It wasn’t as if the Tar Heel state didn’t see Hurricane Helene coming. On Sept. 25, one day before Helene stormed ashore, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared a state of emergency as the storm’s path showed it churning northward toward Appalachia after making landfall in Florida.
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(The Center Square) – Multiple state attorneys general have requested the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm a federal court dismissal of an indictment brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith against President-elect Donald Trump.
Florida led a multi-state... Read more
(The Center Square) – Water was rising fast and 90-year-old Katherine Jowers, who's lived in the same North Carolina home 54 years, wasn't sure what to do.
The water “started creeping up pretty fast,” Jowers recounted in an interview... Read more
(The Center Square) – Federal lands in western North Carolina are set to receive more than $30 million in emergency funding for infrastructure repairs in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
The funding comes as part of $43 million total... Read more
(The Center Square) – Two bills have been filed in the U.S. House of Representatives directed at disaster relief following the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and other states in the South.
Authored by U.S. Rep.... Read more
(The Center Square) – In the weeks after Hurricane Helene, the Davis Country Store and Cafe in Old Fort, North Carolina, served an estimated 23,000 meals to the community, acting as a hub for recovery efforts in the small town of 600 that was devastated.
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(The Center Square) – Interstate 26, a key crossing for drivers near the border of North Carolina and Tennessee, has reopened to the relief of Unicoi County residents.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation reopened the interstate on Wednesday after... Read more
(The Center Square) – A South Carolina sheriff is under fire for refusing to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
U.S. House representatives who chair the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability subcommittees are demanding answers from... Read more
(The Center Square) – When Gayle Manchin became the federal cochairwoman of the Appalachian Regional Commission, she noticed something that sparked a grant program benefiting all of the 13 states.
"What I saw was 13 states doing these phenomenal... Read more
(The Center Square) – A coalition of 24 state attorneys general has joined Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the commonwealth’s removal of “self-identified noncitizens” from voter rolls.
Miyares announced late Sunday... Read more
(The Center Square) – A coalition of state officials and business leaders are publicly calling on Fortune 1,000 companies to end their controversial workplace policies.
The letters come as Democrats and Republicans publicly battle over Diversity, Equity and Inclusion... Read more
(The Center Square) – Citing fall harvest losses at the top of a list, respective state House of Representatives leaders from North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama have petitioned Congress for fiscal assistance.
The Monday letter... Read more
(The Center Square) – Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security have launched an investigation into the alleged misuse of Federal Emergency Management Agency funds by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
DHS, which has... Read more
(The Center Square) – The Federal Emergency Management Agency is taking fire for its increased focus on migrants, and diversity, equity and inclusion policies while its response to recent hurricanes is under scrutiny.
Many Americans assume FEMA is only... Read more
(The Center Square) — A coalition of 24 states, led by Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, have signed a brief against a federal electric truck mandate.
On March 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rolled out a new electric... Read more
(The Center Square) – Twenty-five Republican governors want to know how many illegal foreign nationals have been flown into their states by a Biden-Harris administration plan they argue is burdening their residents and creating an unsafe environment.
Those being... Read more
(The Center Square) – TikTok, popular short-form social media video site with parent company headquartered in China, is being sued by the North Carolina attorney general.
Josh Stein, also a candidate for governor, in the lawsuit seeks injunctive relief,... Read more
(The Center Square) – A new report published by the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security states that “foreign jihadist networks and homegrown violent extremists” represent a “persistent terror threat to America.”
It identifies more than 50 cases in... Read more
