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Hearings start in North Carolina's gerrymandering lawsuits. A three-judge panel must decide whether Congressional and legislative maps passed by the General Assembly's Republican majority are constitutional.

Keith Baker

Day 1: N.C.'s redistricting trial

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Nightly N.C. Education Lottery drawings during the 11 p.m. News.

Good evening, I'm Roxy Gerity. Welcome to tonight's drawings for Saturday, June 21st, 2025. Let's get started with Carolina pick 33 is your first number, second number 9, 3rd number 7, and our pick three fireball number. It's 4. Joining me for tonight's drawing is our auditor from Preston CPA. Now let's move to Carolina. Pick 4. Your 1st 4 number is 45, 3rd number 4, 4th number is 5, and our pick 4 fireball number. It's 4 again. Turning to the Carolina Cash 5, if no one wins the top prize tonight, tomorrow's top prize is estimated at $139,000 and your first cash 5 number 11. 2nd number 38, 3rd number. 25, 4th number 10, 5th and final number tonight. 14, the North Carolina Education Lottery has contributed over $11 billion to education. Thanks for your support. Get your winning numbers every night right here on your exclusive station for the lottery. Thanks for playing. Have a great night.

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In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the attack was “very successful” and all planes are now “outside of Iran air space.” President Trump is expected to address the nation Saturday night at 10 p.m.

Thank you very much. A short time ago, the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier. For 40 years Iran has been saying death to America, death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We lost over 1000 people and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate. In particular, so many were killed by their general Qasem Soleimani. I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen. It will not continue. I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before. And we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done, and most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades. Hopefully we will no longer need their services in this capacity. I hope that's so. I also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Rasina, spectacular general, and all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack. With all of that being said, this cannot continue. There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last 8 days. Remember, there are many targets left. The nights was the most difficult of them all by far, and perhaps the most lethal, but if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill. Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes. There's no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight, not even close. There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago. Tomorrow, General Kaine, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth will have a press conference at 8:00 a.m. at the Pentagon, and I want to just thank everybody and. In particular, God, I want to just say we love you God and we love our great military protect them. God bless the Middle East, God bless Israel and God bless America. Thank you very much. Thank you.

President Donald Trump addresses the nation after he says US bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities

Daytime Pick 3 and Pick 4 drawings are held at 3 p.m. daily. They can be seen as live or on-demand video.

Good afternoon. I'm Beck and Glova. Welcome to this afternoon's drawings for Saturday, June 21st, 2025. Let's get started with Carolina pick 3. The first pick 3 number is 4, the second is. To the 3rd. 7 and our pick 3 fireball number is 7. Join me for this afternoon's drawing is our auditor from Preston CPA. Now let's move on to Carolina pick 4. The first pick 4 number is? 4, the second is. 0 the 3rd is 1, the 4th is 2, and our pick 4 fireball number is. 2, the North Carolina Education Lottery has contributed over $11 billion to education. Thanks for your support and thanks for playing.

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The U.S. Colored Troops were a regiment of mostly Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. A number of those soldiers are buried in the National Cemetery in Raleigh. There will be a wreath laying ceremony there in honor and celebration of Juneteenth on Thursday at 9:30 a.m.

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Oh that's I show you this Yeah Hopefully I can rest. OK Oh, I did get the names. I don't know if you saw this on the back. Those are the names of the soldiers. No. Oh yeah, there they are, those 3 unknown that I was talking about. Good morning. In the spirit of a salute. Today we come together as neighbors, citizens, and descendants gathered in the name of memory, justice and peace. Here at the North Carolina National Cemetery, we pause today to honor the 26 United States colored troops laid to rest. Their legacy is not silent, it still speaks. We borrow the language of the salute, a gesture of mutual respect between equals. It is not only military, it's moral. A sign that someone's sacrifice is seen as someone's courage today is honored. So we salute. We salute the 5,0035 North Carolina born soldiers who joined the United States Colored troops, a part of the 209,145 African Americans who fought for the very union that had denied them. We salute, we salute the black women, nurses, caregivers, laborers who supported the troops with their hands, their hope, and their resilience. They were never issued medals, but history owes them honor. We salute, we salute those who were ready to fight, but told to wait, delayed by 15 months of racism before being allowed to serve. Yet when called, they answered, We salute. We salute General Gordon Granger, whose General Order number 3 in Galveston, Texas, declared in 1865 that slavery had ended, the beginning of Juneteenth. We salute, we salute the soldiers of the first North Carolina colored volunteers, later known as the thirty-fifth. United States Colored Troop. Formed right here in this state in New Bern, North Carolina in 1863. We salute, we salute President Biden. Who in 2021 made the Juneteenth a federal holiday, a sign that national recognition can still grow even centuries after injustice. We salute and we salute and we salute the very identity of being black in the Civil War. We salute the risk, the threats, and the violence they faced. General Order 252 from President Abraham Lincoln said mistreatment of black soldiers would not, would not be tolerated. That order still echoes. So let us remember today, not just what they did. But what, why they did it. Let us honor them not just with our words but with our walk. Let Juneteenth not be just a day of rest, but a day of rising up. Let us pray Oh God, with reverence, we salute. Oh God, with hope, we remember. Oh God, with love, we carry on. Let this congregant say amen. Good morning. I am Tammy Hunter Jones and stand proud this morning to share with you that I am the great great granddaughter of former enslaved Ned Hunter, who was enslaved on what yesterday was Spring Hill Plantation known today as Dick's Park. My family and I have the opportunity to extend our ancestry research to learn so many great things, and we're continuing to connect dots as time goes on to move our families closer together and to hold fast to the legacy. Today's occasion. Juneteenth, as with many African Americans celebrated holidays, seeks to expose the surrounding community to the many facets who we are as a people, our interest, achievements, and our history. One facet that we wanted to bring to the community's attention is that one of the contributions of our people is military service. I am a military mother twice over. Praise be to God. We have been made to believe. That our activism to improve the lives of our people suggests that we are less patriotic. Nothing could be further from the truth. African Americans have fought in every war participated in by the United States. Some examples of black heroism in the military are those of the Tuskegee Airmen. The Harlem Hellfighters and the Buffalo soldiers who helped to settle the West. Today's military has approximately 28% active duty enlisted women and about 17% men. We honored today those of a unique group of this celebration of Juneteenth, Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, the US Colored Troops as we scan the grounds of this place. It is confirmation of the fact that freedom is not free. Thank you, soldiers. Good morning. My name is Anita Pearson, and I'm chair of the Capital City Juneteenth celebration Committee. I also came here as a result of my husband's final assignment in the military, uh, because he served as head of the ROTC department at Saint Augustine's College. We loved it here. He left us here, but we love it here and we're gonna stay. My daughter is now serving at Fort Knox, Kentucky and en route to Fort Bragg where she'll be for her last 4 years and it'll be great to have her close by. So we wanna talk a little bit this morning about the history of Juneing which was actually written by my buddy there, Doctor Laverne Weldon, who's taking a picture of me and I'll talk with her later about that. So on June 17th, President Biden signed a bill making June 19th, known as Juneteenth, a federal holiday. Although Juneteenth has been celebrated in the African American communities since its inception over a century and a half ago, many Americans only learned about it recently. What is Juneteenth? The American Civil War began April 12, 1861 and it officially ended almost exactly four years later on April 9, 1865. This was the date on which Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox, Virginia. News traveled slowly and by letter in those days. As a result, it wasn't until 2 months after the Union General Gordon Granger came to Galveston, Texas with about 2000 Union troops to inform the community that the war was over and African Americans could no longer be legally enslaved. He arrived on June 19, 1865. Because it was the last place to learn the news, Galveston, Texas is considered the true birthplace of Juneteenth. As a reference to the date on which General Granger arrived in Galveston, Juneteenth was coined as a combination of words June and 19th. Because Juneteenth is effectively America's 2nd Independence Day, the holiday is also known as Juneteenth Independence Day, Freedom Day, and Emancipation Day. Today, America's 2nd Independence Day is celebrated in many ways. All across the country, church services, cookouts, parades, and wonderful services such as this today. Everyone please join me in singing of the lift every voice and sing if you please stand with me. All right, here we go. Lift every boy. And singer. ring ring with the. Is of. Liberty, let our rejoicing rise as the listening skies. Let it resound loud as the roar. sing a song of the faith that the dark past has taught us. Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought. Oh facing the rising sun of a new day. Let us march on till victory is one. stony the wrong. in the when unborn had died, yet with a steady be have not our feet come to the place for which I. the we have come over a way that with tears has been watered. We have come threading our path through the blood of the slow. Out from the gloomy path till now we At last with the white gleam of the bright star. is God of our we. Years got out of our side. And tears thou who has brought. On the way, thou who hast thy mind led us into I keep us forever in the past. We pray A our stray from the places our God where we met the. That drunk with the wine of the world we forget. The shadow beneath th. May we for and true to what. I'm true to our. So at this point we're going to uh move in the direction here and Earl is gonna take us and give us a little history about the 26 gentlemen who are buried there. If you need a hat, this is the time to get one. We won't be out there for terribly long, but uh. This is a little bit of time, so why don't you take over. And also you have the pen on your. You better. Hey, hey Troy I take the mic. Oh You gonna talk when you get over here I'm gonna talk on the way over there like we did last time. I'm good with What was the question We wait till we get there. You're gonna do anything on that yeah we're gonna. Oh my God I'm gonna have to recruit you again Alex to be another exhibit part. We're good. I'm just I'm hanging out here for a moment so they don't blow away. All righty. OK Oh Can I help you take This is it. So yeah, right. OK.

Juneteenth wreath laying ceremony at Raleigh National Cemetery

A Fayetteville police officer was accused of inappropriately touching an employee.

Same, date and time. A warrant for his arrest was obtained. Officer Jacob Jones was arrested today at the Fable Police Department and was transported to the Cumberland County Detention Center where he received a $25,000 secured bond. Furthermore, Jacob Jones was served with a consideration of dismissal from the Police Department today. Let me be perfectly clear. The Federal Police Department holds its officers to the highest standards of conduct, both on and off duty. The badge we wear is a symbol of public trust, and we will not tolerate any employee who violates that trust. When an officer commits a criminal offense, they will be investigated and arrested if probable cause exists. No one is above the law, and the sworn duty to uphold it makes any violation by an officer all the more egregious. We understand incidents like this can erode the trust we worked so hard to build with our community. It is our responsibility to be transparent and to hold ourselves accountable for our actions. We are dedicated to fostering strong community relations built on mutual respect and trust. Part of that means taking swift and decisive action when an officer fails to meet our standards. The actions of one individual do not define this department. The men and women of the Federal Police Department are expected to serve with integrity and professionalism, and they are equally appalled by this conduct. Our thoughts are with the victim in this case. We want to assure her and the public that we take these allegations with the utmost seriousness. This is now a matter for our judicial system. Thank you. I'm glad to answer some questions at this time. At a time like this, uh, is there anyone in the department that can assist in monitoring officers and making sure that they're, uh, doing appropriate actions? There are several things that are in place for our supervisors are reviewing body worn camera through our internal affairs unit where there are things that are set in place to be able to monitor certain behaviors so that if something does become aware, a supervisor is already reviewing those things to make sure that there's not something that we should have our attentions drawn to. Earlier today, the city announced that they hired, uh, someone for the, uh, public safety office. Talk about if you think that that office and that new program will help prevent situations like this from occurring in the future. As the Office of Community Safety will work with the police department, they will also be focused on a number of efforts within our community, um, but as that new director steps in, we'll be glad to work with them in any way we can to make sure we're fostering the best relationships within our community. Is there anything that uh you can do in the recruitment process to help root out uh potential candidates that might engage in inappropriate behavior? We have a very rigorous recruiting process for our officers. The part that bothers me and should bother everyone within this department is when someone erodes that trust. For the oath that they have taken, and that's why we're here tonight to share with you the decisive and quick action that we took when we became aware. That's not, thank you so much for being here this evening. Thank you.

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