President Donald Trump wants to claw back $9.4 billion earmarked for foreign aid and funding PBS and NPR. The Senate has a ...

Republicans are eager to see Lara Trump enter the North Carolina Senate race, with many seeing her as their best opportunity to keep the seat after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) announced he ...

North Carolina Democrats’ hopes of weakening Republicans’ legislative power are resting on the shoulders of a Rocky Mount preacher. James Gailliard, a former legislator who was unseated in 2022, is ...

Here's how North Carolina members of Congress voted from June 27 through July 10.

A tariff provision of the "big, beautiful bill" spurred an expensive lobbying battle between special interests in the tobacco ...

Attorney General Jeff Jackson spoke exclusively with WRAL about his and Roy Cooper's plans for the 2026 US Senate race.

The weekend’s fatal floods in Texas have sparked immediate clashes in Congress over the federal government’s role in ...

Yes, but don’t weep for him. It’s not as if Tillis was drafted into combat. He knew full well the sleazy dynamics of beltway politics when he chose to run. Further, while he isn’t nearly as worshipful ...

Instead of falling in line with colleagues who also realize what an abomination Trump’s gift to billionaires is at the expense of the vulnerable but are afraid to say so, Tillis called it the reckless ...

Observer readers comment on Sen. Thom Tillis's decision not to run again, a Charlotte City Council decision, abortion, Iran ...