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Pete Hegseth, No Boy Scout, Reportedly Wants to Put the “Boy” Back in Scouts — Vanity Fair The Department of Defense won’t comment to VF on the possibly leaked “predecisional” documents, which would push Congress to cut ties with Scouting America

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New York Times Sues Pentagon Over First Amendment Rights

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NC prisons expand addiction treatment before release to curb deadly overdose risk Prison officials are trying to reduce the risk of overdose by providing medications for opioid use disorder before release.

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Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper officially files candidacy for US Senate Former Gov. Roy Cooper has officially filed his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.

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Her Baby Was in the NICU. She Was in ICE Detention - Truthdig Nayra Guzmán was arrested 15 days after her daughter’s difficult birth. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained.

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New Report Exposes Torture, Abuse, and Medical Neglect in Florida Migrant Jails An Amnesty official noted that the abusive conditions the organization observed at the facilities “are not isolated.”…

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The Real Gaetz Story Is Less About Sex Trafficking, More About Poverty - Dame Magazine Back in 2021, when I first heard that the former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz was being investigated for sex trafficking, there was an image that immediately jumped into my brain, and perhaps yours,...

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Encampments Criminalize the Unhoused Building an entirely new carceral system for people experiencing homelessness, including the recently announced facility in Utah, will create harm instead of care.

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Nonprofits, local governments sue HUD to block changes to federal housing program for the homeless  • NC Newsline Municipal and nonprofit groups have sued the Trump administration to stop spending restrictions on permanent housing and subsidized rents.

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North Carolina advocates for the homeless feel ‘under attack’ • NC Newsline North Carolina advocates for people experiencing homelessness feel ‘under attack’ by new Trump administration housing policies.

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The Trump administration plans major shift away from long-term housing for homelessness The overhaul shifts funds to transitional housing requiring work and addiction treatment. The administration says it promotes "self-sufficiency," but critics warn many will risk losing housing again.

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How a Kansas Republican Became Part of a Racist, Antisemitic Group Chat

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Law allowing guns in North Carolina private schools sparks debate on student safety A controversial law went into effect on Monday, Dec. 1, that allows employees or volunteers to carry guns in North Carolina private schools.

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Study finds PFAS particles evaded testing and contaminated NC water Stumped by high levels of PFAS contamination in Chapel Hill and Pittsboro drinking water, Duke researchers used new methods to find the source of the pollution upstream.

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‘It Is Sacred Work’: Abortion Clinics Are Stepping Up After the Fall of Roe Organizations across the country are ensuring people continue to have access to reproductive care.

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If I were you I'd go find a pool, pay $38 or whatever for a single cocktail and hide out until it all blows over

Starbucks Agrees to Pay Workers $38 Million to Settle Probe of Scheduling Practices - Truthdig Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders joined striking employees in Brooklyn after the coffee chain agreed to the massive settlement.

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My husband is also at this same conference. He said there's 60,000 extra people in Vegas right now. My sympathies to you!

What Is Behind Trump’s Attacks on Venezuela? - Dame Magazine The polycrisis that is the Trump administration can be difficult to fully keep track of: As Steve Bannon once said, the goal is to “flood the zone with shit” and paralyze us from being able to respond...

If the administration truly cared about narcotrafficking, it wouldn’t be pardoning the region’s biggest drug traffickers.

The attacks on Venezuela are about power, oil, and resurrecting America’s interventionist past, writes @zeblarson.bsky.social

A Look Inside the Lonely World of Republican Lesbians While the vast majority of queer women identify as Democrats, these NYC lesbians are proud Republicans. Here’s why.

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My First Love Ghosted Me. It’s Not What You Think.

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Exclusive: Vanity Fair expected to let Olivia Nuzzi’s contract lapse, insiders say Just weeks after Vanity Fair published an excerpt of Olivia Nuzzi’s book, it’s increasingly unlikely she’ll be a fixture on its print masthead.

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The Offices Only a Newsperson Could Love Ann Hermes spent six years documenting American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action.

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Trump Calls New York Times Reporter “Ugly” over Her Story Raising Questions About His Health President Trump on Wednesday blasted New York Times reporter Katie Rogers, calling her “ugly,” after she published a story raising questions about President Trump’s health, writing that he was “showin...

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NC pitches $1 billion plan to overhaul rural health system State’s proposal for NC’s share of $50 billion in new federal money would create regional hubs, bolster workforce and revive food-as-medicine programs.

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'Game of chicken' at NC turkey plants. Little consequence when federal inspectors find filth. Inspection reports show problem findings at several NC turkey processing plants, but system largely lets plants continue business as usual.

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New NC laws on death penalty, political discrimination and more begin Monday Harsher criminal penalties for many different offenses become law Monday. So does a new push to restart the death penalty in North Carolina following a nearly 20-year pause.

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Can you have a community without craic? Scholars of Ireland’s pubs warn of declining numbers Two new books analyse what makes the ‘perfect pub’ and both come to a sobering conclusion: Irish pubs are in trouble

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White House launches website to excoriate media for ‘biased’ stories Trump administration lists reporting it objects to in latest escalation of attacks on US journalism

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