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    The 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards will take place Thursday at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, just north of Dallas. Hosted by Reba McEntire for a record 17th time, the 59th ACM Awards promise a star-studded event with memorable performances from artists including Kane Brown, Jelly Roll, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett, Post Malone, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani. Jason Aldean will pay tribute to the late Toby Keith. The 2024 ACM Awards will stream on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch Live at 8 p.m. Eastern.

      Recently lowered revenue projections for North Carolina are making some state legislators think more carefully about how to pay to cover the new high demand for K-12 private school scholarships. The Senate passed earlier this month a measure that would set aside $463 million more for now for the Opportunity Scholarship program. The bill would need one more House vote to go to Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk. But House Speaker Tim Moore told reporters Wednesday that his chamber is looking at alternate sources of money to cover the demand in part because of a revenue forecast downgrade late last week. Cooper opposes the scholarship program and its expansion.

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