In the coming months, North Carolinians may be faced with soaring healthcare premiums as a result of inaction by President Trump and congressional Republicans. For Durham resident Ben Salemi, the issue is personal. His self-employed adult children have to buy insurance out of pocket. WATCH to hear what he had to say at the Durham ‘No Kings’ rally, where he was among over 6,000 people exercising their first amendment rights. | Cardinal & Pine

In our Video of the Week, sound recordist Greg Budney talks about the brilliant song of the Northern Cardinal. Both male and female cardinals sing, and they are some of the first birds to start singing in the year, bringing a blaze of color and sound to the gray days of late winter and early spring. | Cornell Lab of Ornithology