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A North Carolina appeals court on Tuesday blocked the state’s voter identification law from going into effect, finding it was a discriminatory attempt to suppress the black vote, in a victory for Democrats and voting rights advocates. The appeals court reversed a lower court decision that denied a preliminary injunction against a law requiring voters to produce a photo ID at the polls. The ruling puts the voter ID law on hold until the underlying lawsuit challenging it is decided, likely blocking it for the November 2020 general election. The law did include a provision allowing people without proper ID...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Rhonda Foxx, a candidate running for North Carolina's 6th District race, said she went to jail for a crime she did not commit. Now, Foxx is using that arrest as part of her campaign to win the Democratic primary on March 3. In a social media post, Foxx claimed she was the victim in the case, but the police narrative tells a different story. Foxx, who is one of five Democratic candidates in the race, posted her version of what happened. She said a neighbor at a Washington, D.C., apartment building assaulted her in September 2018, but...