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Workers at the Mountaire Farms poultry plant in rural Robeson County, North Carolina, say that about four months ago, something changed. At the time, they couldn’t immediately identify the strange new chemical they’d begun to smell floating around the production lines. But one day things were running as expected, and the next there was a sharp, suffocating kind of odor that one worker said felt like it “invaded your brain.” “It stings your eyes and throat; it’s like a burning in your nasal cavity,” said Sharon, an immigrant who has worked at Mountaire’s Lumber Bridge plant for more than a...

Inside the D.C.-New York information bubble, Donald Trump is a gone goose, Senate Republicans are toast, and Democrats will control the House, Senate, and White House after Election Day in November. That’s a reality being buttressed by dozens of polls showing Joe Biden winning handily nationally, and ahead in traditional battleground states.Democrats have already begun to gloat — in between groveling before the mob and planning their “transformation” of American society.But Republicans outside of that nest of vipers are a lot more sanguine about Trump’s chances.Politico: Interviews with more than 50 state, district and county Republican Party chairs depict a...

A Florida man pulled over in North Carolina for a traffic violation was arrested for carrying 98 grams of cocaine and 35 grams of meth in his vehicle. Orlando Lopez, 43, a Palm Coast, Fla. native, faces two counts of trafficking in methamphetamine, two counts of trafficking in cocaine, possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine and several other charges. Unfortunately, the man’s mugshot has become a bigger story than the crimes he’s charged with. After the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office posted his mugshot on social media, comments on Lopez’s appearance began to pour in prompting the office...

Mounting evidence of voter fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District could indefinitely delay the certification of a winner, as state election officials investigate whether hundreds of absentee ballots were illegally cast or destroyed. The North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement has no plans to certify Republican Mark Harris’s 905-vote victory over Democrat Dan McCready, according to an agenda of a board meeting scheduled for Friday morning. The board is collecting sworn statements from voters in rural Bladen and Robeson counties, near the South Carolina border, who described people coming to their doors and urging them to...

Update: Abu-Bakr Abdur Rahman was arrested shortly before 2 a.m. today in Lumberton, the Fayetteville Police Department reported. He is being held without bail in the Cumberland County Detention Center. --- A man detained by a Cumberland County judge this summer for refusing to cover or remove Voodoo beads he wore in court is wanted for murder by the Fayetteville Police Department. Abu-Bakr Abdur Rahman, 33, was charged Friday with first-degree murder and possession with intent to sell or deliver cocaine. He is accused of fatally shooting 36-year-old Desmond Deron Smith on Sunday during a deal to sell 25 grams...