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  • LSU is going to the women's national championship game for the first time, beating top-seeded Virginia Tech 79-72 in a national semifinal game. The Tigers will face Iowa for the crown on Sunday.
  • What does the resignation of UK Prime Minister Liz Truss means for the U.S.? And what issues are top of mind for voters less than three weeks from the midterm elections?
  • Updated at 5:20 p.m. The hiring of a new top administrator of North Carolina's court system is one of several significant personnel changes in a shake...
  • The top Republican leaders in the state legislature — House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger — also were featured guests at a lunch fundraiser Thursday for Edwards, one of seven Republicans challenging Cawthorn for the nomination in the May 17 primary.
  • Democrats will try the same budgetary process from four decades ago when first-year President Ronald Reagan used reconciliation to achieve his "revolution" in federal fiscal policy.
  • Monday's WNBA Draft is the latest jewel in the crown of Bueckers, the 6-foot guard who barely a week ago led her UConn Huskies to their first national championship in a decade.
  • Grace Bastidas is an editor, podcast host and multicultural market expert. Her work as a content creator focuses on giving voice to communities of color. As the founding editor and content director of Parents Latina, Bastidas is in charge of guiding the creative vision and mission of a bilingual brand that reaches 3.4 million multicultural moms and dads. She is also the host of That New Mom Life, a podcast from Parents magazine that helps mothers navigate those first few months of parenthood. In each episode, she interviews top experts in the postpartum world to get their best advice about everything from body changes to coping with sleepless nights. She covered parenting for NPR's Life Kit.
  • Retired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky was suspended from his contracting role with the Army and is under investigation after replying to a tweet from first lady Jill Biden on abortion rights.
  • NPR.org's new interactive scorecard suggests that President Obama may have a somewhat easier path to 270 electoral votes than Mitt Romney, needing to win fewer states. But that's not a given. As you play, you'll be able to come up with plenty of combinations that would get Romney over the top.
  • About 2,300 more North Carolina families were just notified their kids will get private-school vouchers for 2024. But about 56,000 could be denied Opportunity Scholarships unless the General Assembly approves more money.
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