North Carolina is poised to join a growing list of states to enact commonsense measures to reduce mental illness and improve education outcomes for their children and adolescents.  The North Carolina legislature passed a bill on Wednesday requiring public school districts to ban the use of cellphones in almost all instances during instruction time. Passed […]

Eighteen Republican senators, including former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), voted to advance an amendment sponsored by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to raise taxes on ultra wealthy income earners to help rural hospitals facing steep Medicaid cuts. The GOP senators voted for a motion to waive a budget point-of-order against Collins’s amendment to establish...

The Senate voted early Tuesday morning to defeat an amendment sponsored by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to create a new top marginal tax rate for the nation’s wealthiest income earners and use the money to double the size of a proposed rural hospital relief fund from $25 billion to $50 billion. Senators voted 22 to...

A deal between Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Ted Cruz over how states can regulate artificial intelligence has been pulled from President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" bill.