Updated: 11:59 PM umping out ahead of Washington, New York state enacted the nation's toughest gun restrictions Tuesday and the first since the Connecticut school massacre, including an expanded assault-weapon ban.
Updated: 3:05 PM The White House says even though 31,835 people signed an online petition asking to peacefully withdraw from the United States, the Civil War had already decided that for us.
Posted: 12:27 PM U.S. District Judge Malcolm Howard signed an order pushing back the trial for Republican Stephen LaRoque of Kinston from February until mid-May. Attorneys for LaRoque and the government sought the delay.
Updated: 1:45 PM Speaker John Boehner says the GOP-controlled House will "do its job" and pass legislation to lift the nation's borrowing cap and keep the government running, but will insist that Democrats accept new spending controls.
Posted: 7:07 PM Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says his own Republican Party is having "an identity problem."
Posted: 7:01 PM When Dr. Uma Mysorekar looks at the members of the new Congress, the Indian immigrant and practicing Hindu can see that, for the first time, there's someone who shares her ethnicity and someone who shares her faith.
Posted: 6:47 PM Republican Pat McCrory and legislative leaders pledged that if they were elected, they would undo vetoes issued by former Gov. Beverly Perdue that GOP lawmakers were unable to override.
Posted: 9:28 PM Two children of the late Robert F. Kennedy spoke in Dallas as a year of observances begins for the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Posted: 6:40 PM The North Carolina State Board of Elections wants more details from a longtime state senator about credit card payments made using campaign funds.
Posted: 6:38 PM Two governors -- one from North Carolina and another from Virginia -- didn't attend Gov. Pat McCrory's public inauguration as initially planned.
Posted: 6:15 PM President Barack Obama's second inauguration is going to be smaller than his historic first swearing-in, but still full of glamour and pomp.
Updated: 8:43 AM Uneasy allies, President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai demonstrated Friday they could agree on one big idea: After 11 years of war, the time is right for U.S. forces to let Afghans do their own fighting.
Posted: 2:23 PM President Barack Obama will take the oath of office for his second term with his hand placed on two Bibles -- one that belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and one owned by Abraham Lincoln.
Updated: 7:01 AM Despite fresh opposition from the National Rifle Association, the Obama administration is assembling proposals to curb gun violence that would include a ban on sales of assault weapons, limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines and universal background checks for gun buyers.
Posted: 3:04 PM Cabinet secretaries in North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's administration are getting salary bumps thanks to latitude from the Legislature.
Posted: 4:29 AM Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, a long-time member of President Barack Obama's Cabinet and the first Latina to head a major federal agency, announced plans to resign on Wednesday.
Posted: 1:35 PM The leadership for the new North Carolina General Assembly session is now set.
Updated: 12:58 PM White House chief of staff Jack Lew is President Barack Obama's expected pick to lead the Treasury Department, with an announcement possible before the end of the week.
Posted: 10:45 PM Tuesday was not just a day for Tucson to remember the victims of the deadly shooting that severely injured then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. It was also a day when residents could see firsthand the nation's gun debate play out in a busy parking lot outside a city police station.
Updated: 11:47 PM Former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley wants to practice law again after his license was suspended for two years following a campaign finance-related felony conviction.
Updated: 11:47 PM Greenville Mayor Allen Thomas assumed a new title Monday at the Pitt County Courthouse as the newest member of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
Updated: 11:57 PM Senator Hagan toured the Lennox China plant in Kinston known for producing some of the world's finest china including the official china of the white house.
Updated: 10:05 AM Just days after taking the oath of office Governor Pat McCrory will be in New Bern Tuesday for an event at the Tryon Palace.
Posted: 12:48 PM The Charlotte Observer reports 19-year-old William Hilton Paul was arrested Saturday morning at Charlotte Douglas International Airport and charged with alcohol-related offenses.
Posted: 12:46 PM The first executive order signed by new North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory repeals an order of his Democratic predecessor creating a state commission to nominate new judges.
