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Debris from an apartment building is seen on top of parked cars after a strike in Tehran, Iran, early Friday, June 13, 2025. Israel attacked Iran's capital early Friday, with explosions booming across Tehran.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

UPDATE: Israeli strikes kill Iran’s top military leaders and prompt retaliation

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Judge blocks Trump’s election executive order

A view of Jerusalem's Old City, with the Dome of the Rock shrine in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, closed to worshippers after Israel's Homefront Command banned public gatherings following an Israeli military strike on Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

US shifts military resources in Mideast in response to Israel strikes and possible Iran attack

North Carolina

JetZero plans to build $4.7B plant in NC, aims to create 14,500 jobs

Sixth Arrest Catawba County Mass Shooting

UPDATE: Sixth suspect arrested in connection to Catawba Co. mass shooting

Emergency responders surround a JetBlue plane which rolled off a runway onto a grass area while landing at Logan Airport, Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)

No injuries after JetBlue flight from Chicago rolls off runway in Boston

Charlotte Fire used a crane to help with the high-angle rescue of a construction worker Thursday. Pic from @CharlotteFD.

Injured worker rescued with help of a crane from sixth floor construction site in Charlotte

President Donald Trump holds up a signed bill blocking California's rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs measure blocking California’s ban on new sales of gas-powered cars

People stand around debris at the site of an airplane that crashed in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, Thursday, June12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Fiery Air India crash kills hundreds, leaving 1 survivor, airline says

A police vehicle blocks a flooded roadway in San Antonio, Tx., where a vehicle was stranded after heavy rains in the city on Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi)

At least 4 dead after heavy rains flood parts of Texas

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)

Judge in Weinstein case declares a mistrial on the remaining rape charge

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

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