Senate Candidate Makes A Stop In The East
Posted: 10:05 PM A U.S. Senate hopeful kicked off his campaign early in Greenville Wednesday as the election is 20 months away.
Posted: 10:05 PM A U.S. Senate hopeful kicked off his campaign early in Greenville Wednesday as the election is 20 months away.
Updated: 1:52 PM The General Assembly has finalized a temporary solution designed to ensure thousands of North Carolina residents living in group homes and special dementia units get aid while losing certain Medicaid services.
Posted: 11:48 AM Iranian diplomats say talks with world powers in Kazakhstan on how to curb Tehran's nuclear program have reached "turning point" for the better.
Updated: 5:16 PM The Senate late this afternoon voted to confirm Chuck Hagel as the nation's next defense secretary.
Posted: 12:03 PM U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pushed Tuesday for a free-trade agreement between the United States and Europe, saying it is a priority for President Barack Obama's second term that would help create jobs and growth on both sides of the Atlantic.
Updated: 11:43 AM North Carolina lawmakers are set to approve a measure barring the state from expanding Medicaid under the federal health care overhaul.
Posted: 9:55 AM The Republican-backed measure had been scheduled for a vote Tuesday in the House.
Posted: 7:49 PM Lawmakers in the North Carolina Legislature soon will consider a bill that would designate state money to help pay private school tuition for some children.
Updated: 8:36 PM North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory says he supports issuing distinctively marked drivers licenses to some illegal immigrants.
Posted: 7:42 PM North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory says he asked President Barack Obama and some of his Cabinet questions about issues he's concerned about during a visit to Washington.
Updated: 11:45 PM President Barack Obama is telling the nation's governors "at some point we've got to do some governing," rather than "careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis."
Posted: 1:56 PM A joint exercise with U.S. forces has successfully tested the Arrow anti-missile system for the first time. The system is meant to defend Israel from the threat of an Iranian strike.
Posted: 1:35 PM Iranian officials are dismissing the movie based on the escape of six American hostages from the besieged U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 as anti-Iran.
Posted: 3:59 PM Fox's Chris Wallace has landed the first postelection interview with defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann.
Updated: 11:15 AM Secretary of State John Kerry is embarking on his first official overseas voyage, bringing new ideas to capitals in Europe and the Middle East on how to end nearly two years of brutal violence in Syria.
Updated: 7:55 PM Governor Pat McCrory is calling on President Obama and congressional leaders to find a solution to the looming sequestration.
Posted: 5:13 AM The nation's governors are becoming prominent voices in the fight to cut the federal deficit, warning that Capitol Hill's latest budget stalemate is radiating fresh waves of uncertainty that threatens economic progress in their states.
Posted: 3:47 PM McCrory's office confirmed Friday that WNCN-TV's Kim Genardo is joining the new Republican administration starting next week.
Posted: 2:51 PM As he begins a long weekend meeting with the nation's other governors, Pat McCrory announced he's joining another group of state chief executives interested in expanding offshore energy exploration.
Posted: 11:17 AM The federal prosecution of five former employees of the private security firm Blackwater has collapsed after the defendants said they were acting at the direction of the CIA by providing five automatic rifles as gifts to King Abdullah of Jordan.
Posted: 8:53 PM A new North Carolina driver's license set to be issued to some illegal immigrants has a bright pink stripe and the bold words "NO LAWFUL STATUS," raising concerns about whether the design will stigmatize those who show it.
Posted: 2:40 PM Myanmar and the United States have taken a step toward closer relations with an agreement to resume cooperation in fighting narcotics after nearly nine years.
Updated: 11:35 PM A solar farm was built in Beaufort County last year and a company is hoping Pitt County is next.
Posted: 7:16 PM Tougher penalties for people who make highly addictive methamphetamine using an ingredient found in some cold medicines are sailing through the General Assembly.
