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Record crowds, hot stadiums: Extreme heat could be a player during this summer’s World Cup
A young boy in a red shirt drinks water at Team Norway’s World Cup practice at UNC Greensboro. Extreme heat could be a player in the FIFA soccer tournament.

By Anne Blythe As the largest FIFA World Cup in history kicks off ...

Posted: June 12, 2026, 8:22 am
Federal curveball upends NC’s plans for Medicaid work rule
NC DHHS officials Debra Farrington, left, Michael Leighs and Melanie Bush at the i2i Center for Integrative Health’s spring conference in Raleigh on June 9, 2026.

By Jaymie Baxley  North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human ...

Posted: June 11, 2026, 8:23 am
Dog deaths at Swannanoa boarding facility point to holes in NC animal welfare protections
Photo shows two huskies, Melo and Pneuma, one mostly white and one brown with white markings sitting in front of a flowering bush. They were healthy before their deaths in April, 2026 at a boarding kennel in Swannanoa, NC called Inner Knowing Canine Connections.

By Skye Crawford Morgan Glenn parted from her dogs for the first t...

Posted: June 10, 2026, 8:15 am

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