2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (805+ words) ELON, N.C. (NCN News) — With the start of the early voting period now five weeks away, the latest survey by the Elon University Poll finds that former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has an 11% lead over Republican Michael Whatley in the state’s…...

1+ week, 44+ min ago   (1044+ words) By STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press The East Wing of the White House was still standing and the Kennedy Center wasn’t threatened with demolition. Artificial intelligence data centers weren’t bipartisan shorthand for the tech sector’s excess. Democratic socialists were largely confined…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1217+ words) By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press Statewide mail voting for this year’s midterm elections kicked off Friday amid a churning legal battle over President Donald Trump’s attempts to limit the practice and mounting concern over Postal Service changes that some state…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (589+ words) By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press A censure registers the House’s deep disapproval of a lawmaker’s conduct that does not meet the threshold for expulsion from office. The 413-2 vote was just the latest instance of the House grappling with revelations about…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (394+ words) By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press The decision replaces a temporary order from Chief Justice John Roberts previously issued hours before a lower-court decision halting the work would have gone into effect. The lawsuit will return to lower courts, but documents…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (456+ words) By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press The online prediction market platform Kalshi said Monday that it has permanently banned former U.S. Rep. George Santos after concluding the former Republican congressman likely engaged in insider trading when he bet against his attendance at…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (459+ words) By JACK BROOK Associated Press/Report for America The massive hospital, a New Orleans landmark that long cared for the city’s most vulnerable residents, was shuttered after the last patients and staff were rescued in 2005. Now, as Louisiana marks the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (779+ words) By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The Supreme Court’s decision giving preliminary approval for President Donald Trump’s order restricting mail voting may not lead to a single election procedure changing during the November midterms, but it has already thrown into uncertainty…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (157+ words) RALEIGH, N.C. (NCN News) – A coastal Republican lawmaker is leaving the General Assembly. State Senator Bobby Hanig of Curritick County announced on social media that is now “officially retired from the North Carolina general assembly.” In the post he said he…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (972+ words) The new head of Iran’s top security body warned Sunday that Tehran will see any country’s support for new U.S. economic measures against the Islamic Republic as an “act of war,” while Iran’s president defended a memorandum of understanding…...