CNN's Jim Acosta winced as a conservative commentator justified defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth needing his mother to defend his character amid allegations of his past drinking and mistreatment of women. Penelope Hegseth appeared on "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday to recant a scathing email she sent to her son that was obtained and published by the New York Times, …
RALEIGH, N.C. — A state appeals court on Tuesday rejected a request by an eastern North Carolina eye doctor to strike down a state law that requires regulators to agree new operating rooms are needed in his region before they could be built. A three-judge panel of the intermediate-level state Court of Appeals court ruled the state’s certificate of need …