Cooper's order follows weeks of growing coronavirus cases, which spurred pressure from health care experts to make mask recommendations into a requirement.
The list of Biden endorsers includes former Trump administration officials; former Republican senators, representatives, and governors; and hundreds of former GOP national security officials.
Leading public health officials spent more than five hours testifying before Congress as coronavirus cases are rising in about half the states and political polarization competes for attention with public health recommendations.
While Roy Cooper mulls a statewide mask order, Raleigh, Durham, Orange County, Boone and now Greensboro impose their own emergency mask rules.
Pandemics do not relieve North Carolina lawmakers of their constitutional mandate from the Leandro case to provide a “sound basic education.”
NC officials will consider easing coronavirus restrictions this week. But infections are heading in the "wrong direction," NC's top health official says.
In a letter denouncing U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, 135 former New York prosecutors write that U.S. Attorney Geoff Berman's dismissal undermines "confidence in the criminal justice system."
After George Floyd's killing, Rev Barber led a three-hour virtual march Saturday calling for reforms to the economy, criminal justice, and voting.
A first-time protester takes Cardinal & Pine inside her quest to convene a ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement in rural Duplin County, NC.
North Carolina leaders must set clear rules, not recommendations, for reopening public schools. And then fund those mandates.
