An already close race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat reached a razor-thin margin as most counties on Friday ...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland held a summit with families who have lost loved ones to drug poisonings or overdoses.

When Sara first arrived at her rescuers’ home, she was sick, tired, and was covered in ringworms and signs of abuse all over ...

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the incoming chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, details his 2026 ...

California got a below-average No. 30 ranking among the states when my trusty spreadsheet looked at eight yardsticks of ...

A map published by AccuWeather shows the risk of tropical rain and wind for seven states as a tropical system progresses in the western Caribbean. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has been tracking ...

A week after the election, I asked a few expert observers of North Carolina politics about what they’re seeing now that ...

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Donald Trump’s visits to North Carolina netted his greatest difference in raw votes and second-best winning percentage over Kamala Harris in the seven consensus battleground states ...

Donald Trump clinched victory in the 2024 presidential election last week, sweeping all seven swing states to secure 312 ...

Democrats were projected to win at least 208 House seats and Republicans 215 seats as of Friday. A party needs 218 seats in order to have the majority.

Cleo Fields, a longtime Baton Rouge politician, won more than 50 percent of the vote in an open primary, negating the need ...