CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, May 6 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, Dena J. King, issued the following news release on May 5, 2023: The U.S. Attorney's Office joined the Department of Justice, partners across the federal government, and people throughout American Indian and Alaska Native communities, in recognizing May 5, 2023 as National Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day (MMIP). "Today, we honor and remember Native Americans who have fallen vic  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- The White House issued the following statement on May 4, 2023, by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on North Carolina Republicans' veto-proof abortion ban: * * * North Carolina's Republican supermajority-controlled legislature passed an extreme abortion ban that would interfere with the doctor-patient relationship and make it even harder for women -- especially those in the South -- to access care. The details of this ban have been obscured to make it seem less dangerou  more