Posted: 2:21 AM Ending a self-imposed silence about the November election, 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said Wednesday that he and presidential running mate Mitt Romney lost not because of ideas, but due to ineffective communication.
Updated: 2:32 PM Israeli media says that with 99.8 percent of votes counted on Wednesday morning, each bloc has 60 of parliament's 120 seats.
Updated: 1:15 AM A harrowing nighttime flight over the African jungle and a wild search for a rebel leader helped forge a relationship between Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and Republican Rep. Ed Royce, two men at the forefront of Congress' changing guard on foreign policy.
Posted: 1:11 AM President Barack Obama raised eyebrows when he became the first president to refer to gays in his inaugural address. Now, gay-rights activists are hoping he backs up his words with concrete action in his second term.
Posted: 3:42 PM Arnold Schwarzenegger has called for American leaders to think beyond gun laws in seeking ways to stop shooting tragedies.
Updated: 3:32 PM Forty years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court created a right to abortion with its Roe v. Wade ruling.
Updated: 10:46 PM Now that the ceremony for the inauguration is over, a few people have hit rewind and reconsidered the idea of Beyonce' lip synching the national anthem.
Updated: 12:52 AM If President Barack Obama’s first inaugural theme seemed to be summed up by Beyoncé’s “At Last,” this time it was Hudson’s version of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.”
Updated: 3:31 PM Jon Payne retired to River Bend 3-1/2 years ago. His older sister, who died just before Obama was elected in 2008, was the president's grandmother.
Posted: 8:55 PM Vice President Joe Biden is thanking Latinos for their support in helping him and President Barack Obama get re-elected.
Posted: 3:03 PM A North Carolina lawmaker says his colleagues in the General Assembly are likely to consider proposals to exclude abortion coverage from federal health insurance exchanges and to outlaw abortions based on gender preferences.
Posted: 10:17 PM Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is ending his tenure as Pentagon chief.
Posted: 10:06 PM A new gun control law includes a broad privacy provision that could sharply limit what the public can discover about people with gun permits.
Posted: 4:45 AM For many Republicans, this is a good weekend to get away from it all.
Updated: 11:45 PM The Carteret County Sheriff's Office says their interpretation of the law means the new software that many internet sweepstakes businesses have installed to stay open still is not complying with the law.
Posted: 2:11 AM Before President Barack Obama can march from his swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol to the White House, District of Columbia transportation crews will have to remove the traffic light at 4th Street and Pennsylvania Ave.
Updated: 2:06 AM Most Americans think jarring economic problems will erupt if lawmakers fail to increase the government's borrowing limit. Yet they're torn over how or even whether to raise it, leaning toward Republican demands that any boost be accompanied by spending cuts.
Posted: 1:27 PM The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell to a five-year low last week, a hopeful sign the job market is healing. But much of the decline reflects seasonal volatility in the data.
Updated: 9:11 PM Pitt County District Attorney Clark Everett is reflecting on his more than 30-years as a prosecutor as he prepares to retire at the end of the month.
Updated: 11:48 PM North Carolina's attorney general is calling on lawmakers and the governor to reconsider recommendations he made more than six years ago that he believes will make schools safer.
Posted: 3:00 PM Director Kathryn Bigelow is defending torture scenes in "Zero Dark Thirty," saying the military hunt for Osama bin Laden wasn't free of moral consequences.
Posted: 1:12 PM House Democrats are pushing legislation to repeal the federal debt ceiling, saying the borrowing limit has no practical purpose and has come to be used for political maneuvering that can have devastating economic repercussions.
Posted: 10:02 AM Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is running for his old seat in Congress after a break from politics that followed his affair with an Argentine woman.
Updated: 3:22 PM President Barack Obama is taking 23 executive actions aimed at curbing gun violence that don't require congressional action.
Posted: 7:45 PM The vote was 241-180, and officials said the Senate was likely to accept the measure early next week and send it to President Barack Obama for his signature.
