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Comedian Dave Chappelle used a tour stop in North Carolina on Wednesday to claim reports on what he allegedly said about the Israel-Hamas conflict last weekend in Boston were all “hearsay.” “Right now, I'm in trouble because the Jewish community is upset,” Chappelle said at his North Carolina show…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that state courts had oversight over a legislature’s election laws, rejecting a controversial theory that state lawmakers had nearly unchecked authority over the rules for congressional and presidential races. The 6-3 ruling (read it here) was in a case over how…

Clay Aiken, the former American Idol star and political activist, on Monday announced another run for Congress, as he seeks a seat in North Carolina. Aiken is running in a district that includes Durham, and includes territory represented by Rep. David Price (D-NC), who is retiring. In an announcement video, Aiken…

A local news reporter in Charlotte said that he is one of two people who tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a rally for President Donald Trump last week. Brandon Goldner of WCNC-TV wrote on Twitter that he was one of two people identified by county health officials as testing positive for the…

UPDATE: President Donald Trump said that they will “forced to seek another state” to host the Republican National Convention, after the governor of North Carolina told the GOP that their planned event in Charlotte would have to be scaled back because of the coronavirus. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper wrote in a letter…

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday to openly warn North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper that if he doesn’t make a call on whether Charlotte can accommodate the Republican National Convention this summer, Trump will move it elsewhere. The GOP convention is currently scheduled for August 24-27. The Democratic…

UPDATE, with full Sparks statement Nicholas Sparks is turning the page on his long-running legal fight with the former headmaster of the private Christian school he founded in North Carolina. A jury decided in The Notebook author’s favor Wednesday, saying he doesn’t owe the man a thing after a five-year court…

UPDATED: As the death toll in Hurricane Florence climbed to five, President Donald Trump squeezed out more tweets insisting the number of deaths attributed to Hurricane Maria in a government funded study is horseradish served up by Democrats and journalists to attack him. Our president has been working up a froth all…

North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom bill” looks to have sprung a leak this morning after the Charlotte City Council voted to repeal its own ordinance that bans discrimination against transgender people who use the bathroom for the gender other than the one assigned to them at birth. Almost immediately after the…

Donald Trump delivered the first speech of his political career in which there was no featured villain. To the great surprise of the press, Trump even spared them in his thank-you address to voters in Fayetteville, North Carolina, despite the best effort of the large gathering of supporters who had waited patiently an…

Samantha Bee opened this week’s Full Frontal noting President Barack Obama is busy “child-proofing the Oval Office” while POTUS-Elect Donald Trump's Thank-You Tour makes a stop in Fayetteville, NC tonight. On the eve of Trump’s visit, Bee updated the governor's race in that state; just hours before her broadcast…

A local North Carolina TV station didn’t think much of Dave Chappelle’s vocabulary on last night’s highly-rated Saturday Night Live, and its viewers didn’t get a chance to think about them at all. NBC affiliate WRAL-TV, serving the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill market, bleeped Chappelle repeatedly during his opening…