Updated: 4:03 AM Lawyers for Republican governor candidate Pat McCrory have asked a North Carolina judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a group seeking to have an ad critical of the former Charlotte mayor declared true and constitutionally protected.
Posted: 7:26 AM Even before Paul Ryan takes the stage at the Republican convention, President Barack Obama's campaign is seeking to cast the GOP running mate as "out of step" with American voters.
Updated: 10:37 PM Ann Romney is sharing with her fellow Republicans and the nation the family side of the man she met at a high school dance more than four decades ago. She says she wants to talk from the heart about her husband, Mitt Romney.
Posted: 7:26 PM He's had it locked up for months, but Republicans convening in Tampa, Fla., have formally nominated former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for president.
Posted: 3:27 PM The State Employees Association of North Carolina's political committee isn't endorsing anyone in the race for governor, a boost for Republican Pat McCrory after the group endorsed his Democratic rival four years ago.
Updated: 9:54 PM Romney's top aides and convention planners were juggling their desire for a robust rouse-the-Republicans convention with concern about appearing uncaring as New Orleans faced a threat from Isaac.
Posted: 6:42 PM Republican National Committee officials are releasing a three-day schedule for the party's national convention, shortened because of Tropical Storm Isaac.
Posted: 6:40 PM Congressman Ron Paul is lashing out at Republican efforts to marginalize his supporters at the upcoming party convention, telling a counter rally to stand firm because, in his words, "we will become the tent eventually."
Posted: 6:49 AM Vice President Joe Biden is postponing his planned trip to Florida because of Tropical Storm Isaac.
Updated: 6:53 AM In the end, Mitt Romney chose not to tempt fate.
Posted: 8:49 PM Many people in Greenville lined up Saturday to receive tickets to President Obama's speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
Posted: 6:04 AM Call them maybes.
Posted: 10:26 PM Most Americans don't think Congress is doing a good job. That's according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll.
Posted: 8:00 PM James Taylor and other North Carolina home-grown talent will be on stage on the evening that President Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for re-election at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.
Posted: 7:53 PM The University of Virginia says it has declined a request from President Barack Obama's campaign to hold an event on the Charlottesville campus next week.
Posted: 7:45 PM The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is set to announce a statewide mobilization for voter registration planned for this weekend.
Posted: 7:29 AM For all the recent diversions over Medicare and abortion, Mitt Romney is still running a campaign that paints with a broad economic brush in hopes of rallying voters on jobs and fiscal policy. By contrast, President Barack Obama is painting by the numbers, filling in the Democratic landscape step by demographic step.
Posted: 9:55 PM Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan was in Raleigh Wednesday as part of a two state swing to bring momentum to the campaign.
Posted: 7:49 PM Most Americans expect President Barack Obama to win a second term — including more than a quarter of Republican Mitt Romney's supporters, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows. Still, the race remains a dead heat less than three months out from Election Day.
Posted: 2:06 PM U.S. District Court Judge Malcolm Howard has ordered a schedule of the legal proceedings involving ex-Rep. Stephen LaRoque.
Updated: 9:03 AM Embattled Rep. Todd Akin is insisting he's in the U.S. Senate race to stay, saying "this is not about my ego" but about the voters of Missouri who chose him as their nominee.
Posted: 9:24 PM GOP and state officials have contingency plans in place if the storm makes its way to Tampa, including an evacuation in a worst-case scenario. About 70,000 delegates, party officials, journalists, protesters and others are expected for the convention.
Posted: 4:44 PM Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is calling on Republican Todd Akin to abandon his Senate bid in Missouri following the congressman's comments about rape.
Updated: 7:31 AM Congressman Todd Akin says he was wrong in claiming that women's bodies are able to prevent pregnancies in "a legitimate rape" situation and that conception is rare in such cases.
Posted: 8:22 PM The home of the Masters now has green jackets for women.
