Tag: North Carolina

IN-DEPTH: North Carolina Medical Schools See Children as Young as Toddlers for Gender Dysphoria

Gender clinics affiliated with three North Carolina medical schools are seeing patients as young as 2 for gender dysphoria, according to documents reviewed by The Epoch Times. Duke University, the University of North Carolina (UNC), and East Carolina University (ECU) medical schools referenced providing “treatment” for toddlers and grade-school-age children with gender dysphoria on organization…


Madison Cawthorn Pleads Guilty to Entering Airport With Loaded Gun

Former North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn pleaded guilty on May 5 to bringing a loaded gun into an airport last year, accepting responsibility for making such a “mistake.” Prosecutors wanted Cawthorn to relinquish his Staccato 9 mm handgun, but District Court Judge Cecilia Oseguera allowed the former congressman, who lost his renomination bid to fellow…


North Carolina Governor Says He’ll Veto Pro-Life Bill Prohibiting Abortion After First Trimester

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, said he will veto a proposed bill that would ban abortions after 12 weeks. According to House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger, House and Senate Republicans came to a consensus on legislation that would enact the legislation. Currently, state law prohibits abortions after 20 weeks…


LIVE 12 PM ET: NTD News Today (May 1): Texas Killer Reportedly Deported 5 Times; NC Makes GOP-Supported Changes To Voting

A Mexican national who allegedly murdered five neighbors in Texas on Friday—including an 8-year-old boy—has reportedly been deported from the United States five times to date. North Carolina’s supreme court has changed the state’s electoral system—which could work out in favor of Republicans when it comes to congressional districts and voting laws. First Republic Bank…


NTD News Today (May 1): Texas Killer Reportedly Deported 5 Times; NC Makes GOP-Supported Changes To Voting

A Mexican national who allegedly murdered five neighbors in Texas on Friday—including an 8-year-old boy—has reportedly been deported from the United States five times to date. North Carolina’s supreme court has changed the state’s electoral system—which could work out in favor of Republicans when it comes to congressional districts and voting laws. First Republic Bank…


North Carolina Bill Barring Adversarial Regimes From Buying Land Passes State House

The North Carolina House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday prohibiting state-owned companies and hostile foreign nations like China from purchasing farms or any other land near a military installation. The 114-0 vote came amid mounting concern over national security after the Chinese spy balloon recently flew over the state’s military bases before…


State Supreme Court Gives Republicans Major Win in Key Swing State

The North Carolina Supreme Court on April 28 overturned a prior ruling that struck down alleged partisan gerrymandering, giving the state GOP a chance to come up with new congressional lines that favor Republicans. In a 5–2 ruling (pdf), the state’s highest court struck down an order that was previously issued by the same court. The…


Greetings, Y’all, from Mount Airy’s ‘Mayberry’

“Where are y’all from?” a charming woman asked my husband, Carl, and me as we approached her counter at the Mount Airy Visitors Center. When we responded “California,” she enthusiastically commented, “Welcome! We have so many visitors from all over!” We had driven here to this small, friendly town of some 10,600 in the foothills…


Man Wanted in NC Shooting Waives Extradition From Florida

TAMPA, Fla.—A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard waived extradition during a brief court appearance Friday morning in Florida. Robert Louis Singletary, 24, was arrested Thursday in the Tampa area by Hillsborough County deputies,…


Neighbor: Girl, 6, and Parents Shot, Wounded Over Stray Ball

GASTONIA, N.C.—A North Carolina man shot and wounded a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard, according to neighbors and the girl’s family—another in a string of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial circumstances. Gaston County Police Chief Stephen Zill said at a news…