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Primary Election 2026: Rebecca Trammel is pursuing an unaffiliated campaign for NC Senate District 7On this edition of The Newsroom, we're speaking with Rebecca Trammel, a nonprofit founder, community organizer, and advocate for public education funding who aims to run as an unaffiliated candidate for North Carolina’s Senate District 7. We asked about her decision to run without major party support — and where she lands on some contentious state-level policies.
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National News
- DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE
- The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here's how I came to love it
- Hate them or not, Patriots fans want the glory back in Super Bowl LX
- It's about to get easier for Trump to fire federal workers
- U.S., Iran to hold nuclear program talks. And, Dems unveil new list of DHS demands
- Court records: Chicago immigration raid was about squatters, not Venezuelan gangs
- What does the CIA not want you to know? The quiz has the secret
- Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them
- DOJ admits redaction errors in Epstein docs while names in files face scrutiny
- Investigators examining ransom notes sent during search for Nancy Guthrie
State News
- Customers react to Duke’s request to conserve energy during Carbon Plan proceedings
- North Carolina reports 17 measles cases since December
- Winston-Salem man pleads guilty in killing of Greensboro police sergeant
- High-stakes race in Forsyth could reshape county commission
- Duke Energy experiences record-breaking demand during winter storms
- American Hebrew Academy responds after documents show ICE considering Greensboro detention facility
- Coharie Indian Tribe charts course for river recreation in Sampson County
- High Point Museum opens Black History Month civil rights exhibit
- 'We have a real problem.' In executive order, NC Gov. Stein aims to aid state's mental health system
- NC Board of Education pushes for higher teacher pay, moratorium on Opportunity Scholarships
