The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s board of trustees is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to offer tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, after weeks of mounting pressure to do so.

NC Policy Watch first reported Monday that trustees were expected to vote on Hannah-Jones’ tenure, citing two unnamed board members. A spokeswoman for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., which is representing Hannah-Jones, also confirmed to the New York Times that the board is set to vote on the matter. 

Hannah-Jones was supposed to begin her position as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism on July 1, but has said she won’t accept without tenure, which has been

Most states around the country are experiencing a vaccination lag, even as vaccines become more widely available. 

The culprit behind this lag? Most vaccine hesitancy has come from young, rural and lower-income people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More data shows that at least 10% of people who received one dose of an mRNA vaccine have yet to get their second shot.

But some experts have come up with a solution: Researchers found in a study published in May that people who were texted encouraging them to get the flu vaccine were more likely to get inoculated, and some states have begun using the same strategy to increase vaccination

Remember Anheuser-Busch’s promise to give Americans free beer if the White House hit its goal of 70% of U.S. adults by July 4? The beer maker is keeping its word, even though the country fell just short of that goal.

Starting Friday and through Monday at 11:59 p.m. ET, adults 21 and older can go to MyCooler.com/beer and upload a picture of themselves at their favorite place to have a beer (such as a local bar or restaurant, backyard or baseball stadium). They will get an email with a digital gift card worth $5, the average retail price of an Anheuser-Busch product. They can use the card to claim a free beer

Stuart Damon, best known for his role as Dr. Alan Quartermaine on “General Hospital,” died Tuesday. He was 84. 

“Stuart Damon played beloved patriarch Alan Quartermaine for 30 years,” Frank Valentini, “General Hospital” executive producer, said in a statement to USA TODAY. “He was a great actor and even greater man. His legacy lives on through ‘GH’ and all the lives he touched and all those who loved him. He will be missed.”

Damon’s family told ABC News 7 the actor had been “struggling with renal failure for the last several years.”

The actor landed the “General Hospital” role of Dr. Alan Quartermaine, part of the rich, dysfunctional and haughty Quartermaine family, in 1977. He was nominated

Most states around the country are experiencing a vaccination lag, even as vaccines become more widely available. 

The culprit behind this lag? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most vaccine hesitancy has come from young, rural, and lower-income people. More data shows that at least 10% of people who received one dose of an mRNA vaccine have yet to get their second shot.

But some experts have come up with a solution: Researchers found in a study published in May that people who were texted encouraging them to get the flu vaccine were more likely to get inoculated, and some states have begun using the same strategy to increase vaccination