Paul Andy Specht
Reporter at WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
Covers North Carolina politics for @WRAL and @PolitiFactNC. Formerly at the @newsobserver. Raleigh native. @Campbelledu alum.
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5 days ago |
wral.com | Paul Andy Specht
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, left, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, appears with, from left, Master of Ceremonies Archbishop Diego Giovanni Ravelli, and former Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican shortly after his election as the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, Thursday, May 8, 2025.
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6 days ago |
wral.com | Paul Andy Specht
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) makes a statement about Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) during questioning of Attorney General Merrick Garland at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 20, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)As judges issued rulings critical of President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation policies, Democrats took to social media to paint Republican lawmakers as supportive of deporting U.S. citizens.
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1 week ago |
wral.com | Will Doran |Brian Murphy |Paul Andy Specht
FILE - This combination of photos from 2017 to 2022 shows the logos of Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat on mobile devices. (AP Photo, File)Many North Carolina teens would be banned from using social media, under a proposal approved by the state House Tuesday. The near-unanimous vote was part of a larger last-minute rush for lawmakers, who are facing a deadline Thursday: Any bill that hasn’t passed at least one chamber by then is considered dead until the next legislative session.
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1 week ago |
wral.com | Paul Andy Specht
Some deceptive telemarketer practices would end under a pair of bills advanced by North Carolina lawmakers Tuesday. A House judiciary committee on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to House Bill 520, which would crack down on telemarketers who try to trick people into answering their calls by displaying a phone number with a local area code — numbers that sometimes belong to private citizens. The bill would ban telephone networks from selling people’s numbers to telemarketers.
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1 week ago |
wral.com | Paul Andy Specht
Still need a REAL ID? 5 On Your Side has scams to avoidResponding to concerns about a bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote, some Republicans have said an eligible voter needs only a Real ID. But in 44 states, that’s not a solution. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act, passed the U.S. House on April 10 by a 220-208 vote.
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