STOKESDALE — Opponents to casino development along U.S. 220 in Rockingham County, saw two nearby municipal governments push for the people's r…
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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday he appointed a special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe, deepening the investi…
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe, deepening the investigation of the president’s son ahead of the 2024 election. Garland said Friday he was naming as the special counsel David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware. Weiss has been probing the financial and business dealings of President Joe Biden’s son. The move is a stunning development from the typically cautious Garland and comes during a pair of sweeping Justice Department probes into former President Donald Trump. The newly appointed special counsel says plea deal talks have broken down in the Hunter Biden tax and gun case. Hunter Biden’s attorney hasn't returned messages seeking comment.
The Mississippi Supreme Court says it will not remove NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre as a defendant in a civil lawsuit that seeks to recover millions of dollars of misspent welfare money. Three justices issued a brief ruling Wednesday. They affirmed a trial court judge's decision that Favre must remain as a defendant in the civil lawsuit filed by the state Department of Human Services. Prosecutors say millions of welfare dollars for low-income Mississippi residents were squandered on projects supported by wealthy or well-connected people from 2016 to 2019. The department sued more than three dozen people or businesses in 2022 to try to recover some of the money.
It’s easy to be cynical about politicians. Disappointment and betrayal breed cynicism.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Voters in Ohio on Tuesday are weighing whether to make it more difficult to change the state's constitution, a decision that …
(CNN) — Tory Lanez, the man convicted of shooting rapper Megan Thee Stallion in 2020, was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years in prison, the Los …
Donald Trump's legal team told a judge overseeing the election conspiracy case against him on Monday that prosecutors' proposed protective ord…
"Of course, virtually all Americans value freedom. But they don’t necessarily define the term in the same way."
RALEIGH — Last month, I joined dozens of other writers, scholars, activists, and leaders across the country to declare ourselves "Freedom Cons…
Donald Trump is the first former president in our nation's history to be indicted. He is also the first former president to be indicted three …
RALEIGH — Last month I joined dozens of other writers, scholars, activists, and leaders across the country to declare ourselves “Freedom Conse…
Mexico and the United States are telling us they see eye-to-eye on organized crime. They don’t. On July 24, the Department of Homeland Security announced that officials from the U.S. and Mexico reinforced their commitment to “joint efforts” to disrupt the trafficking of fentanyl and its precursors across the border from Mexico to the U.S., as well as the flow of weaponry moving in the other ...
WASHINGTON — When Senate Leader Mitch McConnell rose to announce his vote to acquit Donald Trump of impeachment charges in the Jan. 6, 2021, a…
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NEW YORK — Mike Pence fought the Department of Justice in court to try to avoid testifying against his former boss. But the former vice president plays a central role in a new federal indictment unsealed Tuesday that outlines the first criminal charges against Donald Trump connected to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Hunter Biden's former business partner insisted in testimony to Congress Monday that President Joe Biden was never directly involved in their financial dealings.
As two of the longest serving election officials in North Carolina, we write from Hickory with an important invitation for voters across the s…
5.3% The Federal Reserve's new key interest rate as of Wednesday, when Chairman Jerome Powell announced the 11th rate hike in 17 months. The n…
When it finally leaked that one of the three possible criminal offenses referenced in the target letter sent to Donald Trump by the special counsel involved the civil rights conspiracy statute, some commentators’ knee-jerk reaction was that this was a novel charge, an unexpected and untested legal theory. It was proof, in other words, that the special counsel’s case was too weak to support the ...
A House impeachment inquiry would be a first step toward bringing articles of impeachment.
We don't know what specific charges special counsel Jack Smith will pursue if former President Donald Trump is indicted on allegations of attempting to overturn the 2020 election. We can't even be certain that there will be an indictment, although it looks imminent after Smith sent Trump a target letter last week. But thanks to "persons briefed on the matter," presumably Trump's leaky lawyers, ...
WEST BANK: Israeli forces shot and killed a 17-year-old Palestinian boy Friday in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said, d…
A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents.