Debt ceiling takeaways: Biden's invite to liberal skeptics to 'talk to me,' McCarthy's balancing act
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a deal no one in Washington claims to really like. But after weeks of negotiations, President Joe Biden and House Speak…
FILE - This artist sketch depicts the trial of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and four others charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge put South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy on hold Friday until the state…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans still do not have a deal with President Joe Biden to raise the debt ceiling as the nation is a little more…
A person walks by the ticketing lobby at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Thursday, May 25, 2023, in Charlotte, N.C. Auto club A…
A person walks by the ticketing lobby at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Thursday, May 25, 2023, in Charlotte, N.C. Auto club A…
A person checks in at the American Airlines ticket counter at Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Thursday, May 25, 2023, in Charlotte,…
People check in at the American Airlines ticket counter at Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Thursday, May 25, 2023, in Charlotte, N.…
People wait for their bags at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport baggage claim on Thursday, May 25, 2023, in Charlotte, N.C. Auto clu…
FILE - In this July 24, 2018, file photo, members of the North Carolina House gather for a special session at the General Assembly in Raleigh,…
FILE - President Clinton throws a basketball presented to him by the Texas Tech Lady Raiders as University of North Carolina head basketball c…
Reporters encircle Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., Thursday, May 25, 2023, as he speaks to them about the debt limit negotiations, on Capitol Hi…
Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., left, speaks to reporters about the debt limit negotiations, Thursday, May 25, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washingt…
WASHINGTON (AP) — There was Kevin McCarthy, saying the White House was refusing to give on spending as the speaker returned to the Capitol one…
Thousands of United Methodist congregations have been voting on whether to stay or quit one of the nation’s largest denominations amid intract…
A wave of newly approved abortion restrictions in the Southeastern United States has sent providers scrambling to reconfigure their services f…
A federal lawsuit alleges that Tennessee’s decision to deny its employees gender-affirming care is unconstitutional and discriminatory. The le…
WASHINGTON (AP) — For all the concern over just when the government might run short of money to pay its bills, it turns out that no one, not e…
Guam residents facing down the strongest typhoon to hit their remote U.S. Pacific island territory in decades had identical twin meteorologist…
The North Carolina Senate is making changes to a measure approved by the House earlier this year that would authorize and regulate sports gamb…
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are turning to a select group of negotiators to help broker a deal to increase the nation…
As more Southern states pass new restrictions on abortion, Virginia is poised to become an outlier in the region for its relatively permissive…
CARY, N.C., May 24, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Concordia, the leading global convener on private and public sector cooperation, is hosting i…
Lawmakers in South Carolina have passed an abortion ban while a judge in Montana was weighing restrictions there. Those are the latest develop…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Abortion will soon be severely restricted in one of the last bastions for legal access in the U.S. South.
A North Carolina redistricting ruling has set up a possible electoral windfall for congressional Republicans in preserving their U.S. House ma…
Top Republican debt crisis mediators Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., left, and Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., chairman of the House Financial Servic…