WaPo: “Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker acknowledged giving a $700 check to an ex-partner in 2009, but in an interview broadcast Monday, he continued to deny the woman’s claim that the money was provided to pay for an abortion. Shown images of a receipt from an abortion clinic and a check dated days later with…

AL Political Reporter: “A coalition of Alabama pastors is calling on Gov. Kay Ivey to do something about the health of Kastellio Vaughan, whose condition while incarcerated within an Alabama prison went viral and sparked outrage last month. Vaughan, 32, is currently serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted in 2019 of breaking into multiple…

NC Policy Watch: “Jordan needed an unsecured bond, or he wasn’t getting out of jail. The 24-year-old Black man had been arrested on Oct. 8, charged with possessing drug paraphernalia, trespassing, resisting a public officer, and failing to show up for a court hearing, allegations that kept him in jail on a bond he couldn’t…

North State Journal: “Recent opinion polls in North Carolina show voters are more likely to vote for Republican candidates than Democrats for two state Supreme Court seats this year.  A poll of likely voters from Sept. 24-26 was conducted by the national polling group Cygnal on behalf of the Civitas Institute and John Locke Foundation.   Republican Richard…

Slate: “Jon Stewart: Comedian. Political commentator. Liberal conscience of a nation (in the W. Bush era). Resistance™ hero. Occasional transphobic joke-maker. That guy from The Daily Show is back, and he’s got something new for East Coast liberal elites to pat themselves on the back over: On his new season of The Problem With Jon Stewart, the host aims his…

AL Political Reporter: “The general strike and protest among incarcerated workers in state prisons has begun to subside as more incarcerated individuals return to their inside jobs “to ensure that ADOC does not continue to target the most vulnerable in our population,” according to a statement from inside organizers obtained by APR. In the statement from…

Political Wire: “The Daily Beast obtained Herschel Walker’s (R) child support agreement for his youngest son, which shows that he pays $3,500 a month — he claims a net worth between $29 million and $62 million — and has no visitation rights. “We shared the details with five experienced New York family lawyers. Their verdict was unanimous:…

My Fox 8: “Those concerned that national Democrats aren’t doing enough to support Senate candidate Cheri Beasley in North Carolina take note: Her campaign will get another big jolt of dollars from party leaders. In the same week that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s political action committee launched a $4 million television ad campaign to address…

Watauga Watch: “Joe Biden issued his pardon for just some 6,500 people convicted of Federal marijuana possession and suggested that state governors ought to do the same for people convicted on state charges. What would that mean for North Carolina? In North Carolina in 2019, there were 31,287 charges of possession of up to half an ounce…

WUNC: “North Carolina’s two top Democratic state officials are urging the Republican-led legislature to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in light of President Joe Biden’s pardon Thursday of thousands of Americans convicted of “simple possession” under federal law. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein, the state’s top lawyer who is considering…