NBC: “President Joe Biden’s campaign released its latest abortion ad of the election hours after former President Donald Trump said he believes abortion laws should be left to the states, sidestepping the national ban that some of his supporters want. The 60-second ad, which first aired Monday on MSNBC, focuses on Amanda Zurawski, a Texas woman who sued the state after, she…

Political Wire: “A Mobile, Ala., hospital at the center of a State Supreme Court ruling that found that frozen embryos could be considered children said on Wednesday that it would no longer provide in vitro fertilization lab services after this year,” the New York Times reports.”

WaPo: “Even before he started talking about assassinations and homemade bombs a couple of months ago, “Duke” had weirded out his fellow members in an anti-government militia group. … Vane, 42, was a former Marine reservist with an intelligence background whose loose talk about explosives and Russian government connections unnerved his fellow militia members. The…

AR Times: “Andrew DeMillo of the AP breaks the news that the long-awaited audit of a $19,000 lectern purchased for Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is slated to be released to the public within the next 10 days. …. The Arkansas-Democrat Gazette reported Sunday that Republican legislative leaders said they expected the audit report to be released at some point during…

The 19th: “The Florida Supreme Court struck down its state abortion protection — paving the way for a six-week ban passed in 2023 to take effect — but will allow voters to weigh in on whether they can amend the state’s constitution to explicitly enshrine abortion rights. The court issued two separate rulings Monday: one upholding…

North State Journal: “Thomas Farr, a longtime North Carolina redistricting and election law attorney who regularly defended Republican interests but whose 2018 federal judgeship nomination was scuttled by two GOP senators, has died, a legal colleague said Tuesday. He was 69. Farr died on Monday following a series of heart problems, according to Phil Strach, a fellow…

NC Newsline: “State Treasurer Dale Folwell declined again on Tuesday to endorse Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson in North Carolina’s closely watched gubernatorial contest. Folwell, who lost the GOP nomination race to Robinson in the March primary, has refused since that time to endorse Robinson in his general election showdown with the Democratic nominee, Attorney…

Old North State Politics: “All this is to say: North Carolina matters. But, as anyone has has ever attempted to order Eastern Barbecue West of Lexington knows, the state is not a monolith. Some counties in North Carolina prefer the tomato based sauce in the West and some prefer the vinegar based sauce in the…

The 19th: “Stacey Abrams has a big imagination. She’s used it to expand Georgia’s electorate, be the first Black woman to be a major-party nominee for governor and write 16 books across multiple genres. This week on the show, Stacey sits down with Errin to share how she imagines American policy and democracy shifting — from…

NC Newsline: “Affordable housing advocates say such victories are too few for North Carolina tenants, who they contend, are often up against unjust laws that leave them at the mercy of landlords. The organizers of the new North Carolina Tenants Union (NCTU), which officially launched Tuesday, want to level the playing field. NCTU was created to help…