The 2024 election is finally over! There was still one undecided race until now—a big one for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, where it appeared the losing candidate was going to be successful in throwing out thousands of votes. Sanity prevailed at the very last minute. We’ll talk to our Courier Newsroom colleague there for the story. Also: Donald Trump’s MAGA mentality has made it almost socially acceptable to engage in heckling and taunting, but there are right ways and wrong ways for Trump critics to make their points and score some points in the court of public opinion.

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