WASHINGTON -- About a quarter of the federal government has been shut down for six days as of late Thursday, and neither party in Congress nor President Donald Trump seems to see much of a reason to compromise, yet.

Capitol Hill is a ghost town; for most of the day, newspapers stacked up outside the closed door to the suite belonging to Senate ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. --North Carolina's state House and Senate on Thursday overrode the governor's veto of an elections law bill.

The House voted 68-40 to override the veto, while the Senate voted 28-12. Gov. Roy Cooper opposed a provision in the bill that would make investigations of campaign finance violations less public than they have been under ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration and Senate Democrats remain locked in a stalemate over how to end a partial government shutdown, with neither side reporting any progress or substantive talks since before Christmas.

The funding standoff, which affects about a quarter of the federal government, entered its sixth day Thursday with President...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO -- Despite the shutdown of the U.S. government, the Trump administration still faces a January trial over its addition of a question about citizenship to the 2020 census.

U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg on Wednesday rejected the Justice Department's argument that it lacks taxpayer funding to stay on schedule for a non-jury ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Five days after about one-fourth of the federal government was shut down in a funding dispute, affecting about 800,000 federal workers, no solution appeared in sight Wednesday.

President Donald Trump made an unannounced visit to a U.S. airbase in Iraq after days of raging at Democrats for not agreeing to his demand for $5 billion ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The partial U.S. government shutdown entered its fifth day on Wednesday as the White House and lawmakers remain at odds over President Donald Trump's demands to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

There's little indication of any urgency to resolve the dispute and no public indication of following Tuesday's Christmas holiday in...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A partial government shutdown entered its fifth day Wednesday with no end in sight as one key ingredient is missing on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue: any sense of urgency to end the crisis.

President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders traded barbs -- but few proposals that would fund nine Cabinet agencies and a handful of ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Golf has mulligans. Tennis has second serves. But can elections have do-overs?

North Carolina voters might have to go back to the polls in the new year after election officials discovered potential tampering with mail-in ballots in the state's 9th Congressional District this fall.

It's not the first time that U.S. voters have had...Read more

WASHINGTON –– President Donald Trump expressed confidence in the Treasury secretary, Federal Reserve and U.S. economy Tuesday, moving to calm financial markets after a report that said he had discussed firing the central bank's chairman over raising interest rates.

Trump, asked if he has confidence in Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, said...Read more

WASHINGTON –– The partial U.S. government shutdown entered its fourth day Tuesday as the White House and lawmakers remained at an impasse over President Donald Trump's demands to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

There was little indication of urgency to resolve the dispute and no public indication of progress Tuesday, which was a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- On the third day of a partial government shutdown, the top congressional Democratic leaders used another stock market drop to blast President Donald Trump. The two sides traded barbs but there was no sign of progress toward a deal.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 653 points in a truncated trading day that ended at 1 p.m. ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Bladen County political operative McCrae Dowless and possibly others were provided special access to confidential information at the county's Board of Elections office, according to allegations in affidavits disclosed Sunday as part of an investigation into North Carolina's 9th Congressional District race.

The North Carolina ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump blasted the Federal Reserve, blaming it for the plunge in the stock market, following reports he has considered firing Fed chief Jerome Powell.

"The only problem our economy has is the Fed. They don't have a feel for the Market, they don't understand necessary Trade Wars or Strong Dollars or even Democrat ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Even though paychecks stop going out to hundreds of thousands of workers, shutting down the federal government actually costs money -- and the longer it goes on, the more it will cost.

Museums and parks can't collect entry fees or sell souvenirs, the Internal Revenue Service collects less in taxes, and it costs money for federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump is coming off one of his roughest weeks as president, at least in his critics' eyes -- instigating a government shutdown fight, provoking his defense chief's resignation, abruptly pulling U.S. troops from two global hot spots, and even thinking about firing the head of the U.S. central bank.

Yet, as hard as it is for ...Read more