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Weather Alert

...ACCUMULATING SNOW IS LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL NORTH
CAROLINA TODAY AND TONIGHT...

.PRECIPITATION WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST EARLY
TODAY. WHILE THE PRECIPITATION WILL INITIALLY BE ALL RAIN, A
TRANSITION TO A WINTRY MIX OR A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW IS EXPECTED
DURING THE AFTERNOON. A TRANSITION TO ALL SNOW FROM NORTH TO SOUTH
IS EXPECTED THEREAFTER.

...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 AM
EST FRIDAY...

* WHAT...HEAVY SNOW EXPECTED. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4
INCHES.

* WHERE...NORTHERN AND CENTRAL COASTAL PLAIN COUNTIES OF NORTH
CAROLINA.

* WHEN...FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 AM EST FRIDAY.

* IMPACTS...PLAN ON SLIPPERY ROAD CONDITIONS. THE HAZARDOUS
CONDITIONS COULD IMPACT THE COMMUTE THIS EVENING AND FRIDAY
MORNING.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS COULD EXTEND
INTO FRIDAY MORNING WHERE HIGHER SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OCCUR AND
WET OR ICY SPOTS LINGER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU MUST TRAVEL, KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT, FOOD, AND WATER IN
YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.

THE LATEST ROAD CONDITIONS FOR THE STATE YOU ARE CALLING FROM CAN
BE OBTAINED BY VISITING DRIVENC.GOV.

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N.C. youth can look up to astronaut

NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch ended a lengthy tenure on the International Space Station this month when she and two colleagues returned to Earth, landing in a remote desert in the middle of Kazakhstan. Doing so, she put her name in the record books: the longest single spaceflight by a woman at 328 days. It’s a record that will stand for a long time to come. Read more

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Immigrants cross border with rebar ladders

Immigrants cross border with rebar ladders

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Back in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump promised that Mexico would pay for his proposed border wall. Turns out Mexico wasn’t interested, so Trump eventually resorted to declaring fake emergencies and illegally misappropriating money from the military budget. Read more

Bolton delivers fascinating insight a Duke

Bolton delivers fascinating insight a Duke

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The John Bolton I experienced at Duke’s Dave and Kay Phillips lecture series Monday wasn’t what I expected. My impressions of the former National Security Adviser were that he was highly opinionated, sometimes blunt and caustic, a highly intelligent policy wonk who was equally articulate. I saw and heard the intelligent, articulate Bolton, but also a strategist who could be charming, a bit humorous and coy, at the same time serious and knowledgeable about world politics. He is obviously a student with positions that venture beyond what most of the sold-out crowd at Page Auditorium had considered. Read more

Campus bias and anti-Americanism pose threats

A recent Pew Research Center survey finds that only half of American adults think colleges and universities are having a positive effect on our nation. The leftward political bias, held by faculty members affiliated with the Democratic Party, at most institutions of higher education explains a lot of that disappointment. Professors Mitchell Langbert and Sean Stevens document this bias in “Partisan Registration and Contributions of Faculty in Flagship Colleges.” Read more

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