Posted: 05/23/13 - Senate Republicans are handing off their vision of North Carolina's state budget to their House counterparts. Read More

Posted: 05/22/13 - The Obama administration has acknowledged that a Raleigh man wanted on federal terrorism charges has been killed in an overseas drone strike. Read More

Posted: 05/19/13 - Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office Read More

Posted: 05/23/13 - The United States and Israel are raising hopes for a restart of the Middle East peace process after more than four years of hardly any talks. Read More

Updated: 05/22/13 - The IRS official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups has told Congress she did nothing wrong and has invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions. Read More

Updated: 05/20/13 - Senate Republicans say ever-rising costs for Medicaid are siphoning away money in state government that could be used to help public education and law enforcement and raise employee pay. Read More

Updated: 05/22/13 - Anthony Weiner officially announced he's in the New York mayoral race. Read More

Posted: 05/17/13 - Gov. Pat McCrory says a bill laying out how wind farms can operate in North Carolina will help create a diverse supply of energy for the state and boost the economy. Read More

Posted: 05/16/13 - A judge has refused to halt Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's policy denying driver's licenses for young immigrants who have gotten work permits and avoided deportation under an Obama administration policy. Read More

Updated: 05/16/13 - Greenville Tea Party leader Diane Rufino says the local group was not targeted, but she believes what happened across the country with other conservative groups is criminal. Read More

Posted: 05/15/13 - Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department's handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to talk to The Associated Press before issuing subpoenas for the news service's telephone records. Read More

Updated: 05/17/13 - The ousted chief of the Internal Revenue Service is telling Congress that his agency made errors in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, but he says the mistakes were not the result of partisan views. Read More

Updated: 05/15/13 - The Senate Finance Committee approved a bill Tuesday changing the law currently requiring filers to pay a penalty for up to 25 percent on what's called "the amount of the tax." Read More

Updated: 05/15/13 - The New Bern Board of Aldermen met for the first time Tuesday night since the troubles last week involving Mayor Lee Bettis and voted not to even discuss the mayor at this time. Read More

Updated: 05/14/13 - The bill approved unanimously Tuesday by the House would require those convicted of the misdemeanor charge to receive a minimum $500 fine. A driver who hits a child and faces a felony would receive a minimum $2,500 fine. Read More

Posted: 05/14/13 - The bill is named for Allison Gaither, who police say was fatally stabbed in 2009 by her estranged husband near her Winston-Salem home. She had taken out a domestic violence order. Read More

Posted: 05/13/13 - A Marine officer in charge of snipers shown in a 2011 video urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters Afghanistan will be court-martialed. Read More

Posted: 05/13/13 - The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. Read More

Posted: 05/12/13 - Senate Republicans have rolled out a tax plan in Raleigh that would subject almost all services to sales tax. Read More

Posted: 05/12/13 - Top House Republicans are denouncing the Internal Revenue service for apparently targeting tea party groups ahead of the 2012 election. Read More

Posted: 05/11/13 - Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments designed to fire up the conservative base and undercut potential presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Read More

Posted: 05/11/13 - The 1978 graduate of Catawba College is returning to his alma mater on Saturday to deliver the Salisbury school's commencement address. Read More

Posted: 05/10/13 - Political considerations influenced the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Benghazi, Libya, with State Department and other senior administration officials asking that references to terror groups and prior warnings be deleted, according to department emails. Read More

Updated: 05/09/13 - The organization Freedom Watch blames the Obama administration for a 2011 helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed 22 navy seals including one from here in eastern carolina. Read More

Posted: 05/09/13 - The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill its sponsors say protects First Amendment rights at University of North Carolina campuses. Read More