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Person killed at Charlotte apartment complex

National Guard and DHS police stand guard outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Hearing set on Trump’s use of troops to help with immigration raids in LA

South Carolina Rep. RJ May, R-West Columbia, speaks in favor of an education voucher bill on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins, File)

Republican SC House member charged with distributing child sexual abuse material

A protester is arrested by California Highway Patrol near the federal building in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

UPDATE: Police arrest more than 20 people on first night of curfew aimed at protests in LA

Djuna Bostick is charged with involuntary manslaughter and child abuse after the death of a baby left in a hot minivan.

Woman charged after 7-month-old foster child dies in hot minivan

Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan for his retrial, Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in New York. (Steven Hirsch /New York Post via AP, Pool)

Jury convicts Harvey Weinstein of top charge in the retrial of his sex crimes case

Brian Wilson participates in SiriusXM's Town Hall with the Beach Boys at Capitol Studios on Monday, July 30, 2018, in Los Angeles, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Beach Boys visionary leader and summer’s poet laureate dies at 82

Watch On Traffic

Crash blocks lanes on I-85 in north Charlotte

North Carolina coach Bill Belichick watches his team during an NCAA college football practice, in Chapel Hill, N.C., March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)

Tar Heels players embrace new world as part of coach Bill Belichick’s first college team

China Tariffs

Trump announces trade deal with China, says tariffs on Chinese goods go to 55%

Khaby Lame departs The Mark Hotel prior to attending The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" in New York, May 5, 2025. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP File)

World’s most popular TikTok star leaves the US after being detained by ICE

Economy Rising Optimisim

Inflation rose slightly last month as grocery prices ticked higher

A sign as well as a tank mark the entrance to Fort Pickett Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, in Blackstone, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Army restores the names of seven bases that lost their Confederate-linked names under Biden

Security fencing is installed around the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall during security preparation for a festival and parade to commemorate 250th Birthday of the U.S. Army, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

DC prepares for Trump’s military parade with 18 miles of fencing and 175 magnetometers

Disney Hulu

Disney paying almost $439 million to take full control of Hulu

Aptopix Immigration Raids Los Angeles

Pentagon says deploying Marines and National Guard to protests in LA will cost $134 million

Traffic

NC auto insurance rates are going up 5% on average in settlement

South Tryon Assault

UPDATE: 12 hurt after fight inside south Charlotte fast food restaurant

A protester taunts a line of California National Guard protecting a federal building in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

Trump sends Marines and more National Guard members to Los Angeles

A soldier stands beside the sign that was unveiled when Fort Liberty was rededicated as Fort Bragg during a ceremony on base, Friday, March 7, 2025, (AP Photo/Chris Seward)

Trump heads to Fort Bragg while facing criticism for deploying military at LA protests

Sly Stone from the group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 8, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone dies at 82

Aptopix Immigration Raids Los Angeles

CA governor plans to file lawsuit against Trump over National Guard deployment to protests

In this image taken from June 8, 2025, video by the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office in Rutherford County, Tennessee, shows the airlifting of a zebra named Ed that had evaded capture for several days after it ran away from its owner. (Rutherford County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Runaway pet zebra has been captured in Tennessee

Nascar In The Pits

NASCAR heads south of the border with 1st Cup Series race in Mexico City

Generic Hurricane

Barbara strengthens to hurricane, first of 2025 season in Eastern Pacific

Basketball Espn Vitale

Dick Vitale Invitational men’s college basketball event coming to Charlotte

Developing Story

Small plane carrying six people crashes off the San Diego coast

Keith McClure and Jasmionta Mackey are charged with the murder of Jeffery Carter in Gastonia.

Two charged after Gastonia man killed in his front yard

Fatal Accident

Boy on dirt bike hit and killed in northwest Charlotte

Shooting

Search for shooter after 2 people hurt in drive-by shooting in Monroe

El Salvador Deportation Error

Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador charged in US with transporting illegal immigrants

South Carolina

Billion-dollar SC battery plant pauses construction amid electric vehicle and tariff uncertainty

Walmart is expanding drone delivery service to Charlotte. Photo from Walmart.

The world’s largest retailer is bringing drone delivery to Charlotte

Job Openings

US employers added a solid 139,000 jobs in May despite uncertainty over Trump’s trade wars

Hickory Firefighter Jake Bridges died Thursday after having a medical emergency while on duty.

UPDATE: Hickory firefighter remembered after dying while on duty

Supreme Court

Supreme Court makes it easier to claim ‘reverse discrimination’ in employment

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump threatens to cut Musk’s government contracts as their public feud escalates

Sean Combs Diddy

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ warned about nods to jury as ex-girlfriend testifies at sex trafficking trial

Denny Hamlin (11) leads the pack of cars through turn three during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race Sunday, June 1, 2025, in Lebanon, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Federal judges rule in favor of NASCAR in lawsuit filed by Jordan-owned 23XI and Front Row

A customer purchases Nintendo Switch 2 at an electronics retailer in Tokyo, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

What to know about the much-anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 on launch day

Jessie J

Pop singer Jessie J says she has been diagnosed with early breast cancer

Amazon Style Shuts Down

Amazon investing $10B in AI campus in Richmond Co.

Generic Money

Budget office says Trump’s big bill will cut taxes by $3.7T and add $2.4T to deficit

President Donald Trump talks to workers as he tours U.S. Steel Corporation's Mon Valley Works-Irvin plant, Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump hikes steel and aluminum tariffs to 50%. Here’s what we know

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Musk slams Trump’s tax bill as GOP senators race to meet a July 4th deadline

A residential treatment school in NC has closed after the death of 2 students. Photo from: Asheville Academy.

NC residential treatment school closes after deaths of 2 girls

Europe Meta

Meta turning to nuclear power for AI needs

Jail Bars

Judge say federal prisons must continue providing hormone therapy to transgender inmates

Wake Forest head coach Tom Walter looks on prior to an NCAA college baseball tournament super regional game against Alabama on June 11, 2023, in Winston-Salem, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, file)

Wake Forest baseball coach apologizes for apparent homophobic slur at NCAA regional

Yury Navas, 29, of Laurel, Md., kisses her two-month-old baby Jose Ismael Gálvez, at Superbest International Market in Laurel, Md., May 23, 2022, while looking for formula. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)

Kennedy orders a review of baby formula. Here’s what you should know

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