The SS United States is passing the coast of North Carolina as of Friday afternoon, as the historic ocean liner continues her final journey.

Boll weevil pest nearly wiped out North Carolina’s cotton crop in the 1920s. It was finally eradicated in 1980.

By John Hood The asymmetry is striking. In Washington, many Republicans take a maximalist position on the executive power of the president of the United States. All departments and agencies — even if created by Congress with the intent of limiting presidential authority over them — are as a constitutional matter subordinate to the president,

FEMA should be terminated. It has been slow and totally ineffective,” Individual states should handle storms, etc., as they come,” Trump wrote on his social media site.

Sermons made his ruling in the case of Hasson Bacote, who, as NBC News notes, was convicted of murder “along with two others in the 2007 fatal shooting of Anthony Surles, 18, during a home robbery attempt when Bacote was 20. The other two defendants in the case were convicted on lesser charges and later released from prison.”

Restricting the state’s attorney general from starting, joining or helping lawsuits challenging presidential executive orders is advancing in both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly. Democrat Jeff Jackson,

A severe thunderstorm watch was issued by the NWS Raleigh NC on Sunday at 9:53 a.m. in effect until 3 p.m. The watch is for Edgecombe, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Sampson, Wayne and Wilson counties.

It was the second such vote Amazon faced in as many months, after a majority of workers at a Philadelphia Whole Foods location opted to join a union, the first at the grocery chain.

Chase Reynolds will compete against riders from around the world this summer as one of the youngest riders representing the United States.