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North Carolina
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 57 stories to North Carolina since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from North Carolina.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In North Carolina
10 storiesTrump administration returns to the Supreme Court a third time in 6 weeks over its mail-ballot restrictions, filing on a Sunday 2 days after North Carolina began mailing ballots.
Second appeal since Thursday, first withdrawn
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to unblock Postal Service mail-ballot rules that 23 states are fighting, one day before North Carolina begins mailing ballots.
Second such request in 6 weeks
Justice Department appeals a judge's 14-day block on Postal Service rules letting it withhold mail ballots, one day after she found compliance "practically impossible" by November.
North Carolina mails ballots September 4
White House agrees to pay French energy giant TotalEnergies $1 billion to abandon its East Coast wind farm leases and reinvest in U.S. oil and gas production.
Company pledges no future U.S. offshore wind
South Carolina measles outbreak becomes nation's largest with 310 cases, 256 unvaccinated; state epidemiologist warns "this could go on for many, many more weeks."
281 children infected, 24 under 5
North Carolina's Republican legislative leaders call a special session on fuel prices a month before the election, as state diesel averages $6.03.
Follows Ohio, Georgia gas tax holidays
ProPublica reporters open private schools in two of three states, one for $45 and a flag in Arkansas, where an official suggests tapping taxpayer money.
West Virginia can't oversee microschools
21 states sue EPA over repealing power plant climate rules, which it paired with a step to bar future administrations from regulating that pollution.
Agency claims $300 billion industry savings
At least 10 people detained at North Carolina sheriff's checkpoint where Latino drivers were asked where they were born, advocacy group says.
Families can't find detained relatives
Trump warns the European Union that making Canada an associate member could be a "hostile act" and threatens "very heavy tariffs" on Europe in response.
Canadian dairy, alcohol banned September 8
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesSupreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Kavanaugh cites insufficient time to implement
Twenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA's endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Courts uniformly rejected all prior challenges
North Carolina's attorney general reaches a $7 million settlement barring a major landlord from algorithmic rent-setting, the third such deal in a case prosecutors say inflated rents statewide.
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