POLITICS

North Carolina governor’s race rocked by CNN report on GOP candidate

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Editor’s note: This story contains highly offensive language.  Washington — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor, posted a slew of incendiary, explicit and racist comments on a pornographic website more than a decade ago, according to a CNN investigation released Thursday that has shaken the state’s gubernatorial race. The report

‘I Know It Wasn’t Me, But I’m Really Sorry’: New Columbia President Apologizes for Cops Clearing Encampment

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Katrina Armstrong said police sweeps caused ‘harm,’ pledges to develop ‘meaningful engagement’ with protesters seeking Israel divestment Anti-Israel Columbia protesters (Alex Kent/Getty Images), Katrina Armstrong (NIH via Wikimedia Commons) Columbia University’s new interim president, Katrina Armstrong, apologized for the “harm” caused by police sweeps used to clear unruly and illegal encampments and to remove students

Susan Wild Says She’s One of the ‘Top 10’ Most Bipartisan House Members, Citing a Ranking That Actually Places Her 109th

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The Lugar Center’s bipartisanship rankings placed Wild in the bottom half of House members in 2019 (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Democratic Rep. Susan Wild (Pa.) has made bipartisanship a key pitch in her campaign for reelection in a GOP-leaning House district, claiming at a recent debate that a Beltway think tank ranks her in the “top