Comment on North Carolina Medicaid director Dave Richard to retire

By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Cases of a wretched stomach bug are surging in parts of the United States this winter, according to government data. The most recent numbers from the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show there were 91 outbreaks of norovirus reported during the week of Dec.

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and KEVIN S. VINEYS, Associated Press Abortion has become slightly more common despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled states, and the legal and political fights over its future are not over yet. It’s now been two and a half years since the U. S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

For years, before the stop-motion animation wizards of England’s Aardman Animations introduced themselves to a mass audience with the feature film “Chicken Run” in 2000, they had been delighting fans with award-winning short films starring the mild-mannered duo of British inventor and cheese lover Wallace and his faithful dog, Gromit. The pair of unassuming heroes made it to the big screen themselves in 2005’s “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” a well-received spoof of monster movies. ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ review: Fun but not quite poultry in motion /*!

By KATIE WORKMAN, Associated Press Christmas has come and gone. The leftover lamb has been made into a shepherd’s pie, the last slice of pie has been claimed, you know you should be starting a pot of vegetable soup and sipping a glass of cucumber juice. But there’s that bottle of leftover eggnog in the fridge.

All home and road opponents for the Miami Dolphins in the 2025 season are set with a week to spare in the NFL regular season. It was already known, on the league rotation, Miami was going to host the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals and travel to the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns, with the whole AFC East playing the whole AFC North next season. Also facing the NFC South, the Dolphins play home against the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers while visiting the Carolina Panthers and Atlanta Falcons of the NFC South. Miami, of course, always plays home and home against their three division opponents: the Buffalo Bills, the New York Jets and New England Patriots. With the Dolphins set to finish second in the division this season, the other three games in 2025 will be at the Indianapolis Colts and home against the Los Angeles Chargers and Washington Commanders.

Jimmy Carter’s one-term presidency was a mixed success — “unfinished” was how two biographers described it — but he deserves to be remembered as a light to the world. What stands out most was his profound decency. In that respect, he was a superior president. In words that may sound naïve today, he had promised “a government as good as the American people.” He was distinguished by virtues, not vices. Carter carried out his intentions not just in office, but in how he devoted his 54-year-long post-presidency to humanitarian service. He was not about money He had not profited from the presidency while the Georgia peanut farm he had put into a blind trust fell more than $1 million in debt.