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Women under 60 can benefit from hormone therapy to treat hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause. That's according to a new study, and is a departure from what women were told in the past.
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He was a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as "Rebel Rouser" and "Peter Gunn" influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians.
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State Senate leaders want to spend $248 million in the coming school year to ensure that private school vouchers are available to every family that applied, regardless of their income level.
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Florida has been a major access point for abortion in the South. Now its residents, along with thousands more in the region, will have to seek abortion care elsewhere after six weeks of pregnancy.
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A drought has upended life in several South American cities, leading to water rationing and power cuts as well as forest fires.
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Two Republicans face each other in a primary runoff later this month for the congressional seat in North Carolina’s 13th District, which covers part of the Raleigh area. One of the candidates, Kelly Daughtry, in a TV ad, has claimed that her opponent Brad Knott was a "lawyer for Joe Biden." WRAL's Paul Specht joined us for this week's Fact Check to discuss.
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UNC-Chapel Hill officials erected a 6-foot fence around the flag pole at Polk Place after protesters pulled down the American flag that normally flies there and ran up a Palestine flag.
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Scenes of grief played out in front of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and in an east Charlotte neighborhood Tuesday, one day after four officers were killed and four others injured by a man wanted on gun charges.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board approved a slightly slimmed-down budget request Tuesday, but it still may be more than the county can provide without a tax hike.
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The Justice Department is expected to propose a new, lower classification for marijuana that would lessen restrictions on the drug. But there's another review process to come.