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New North Carolina governor to face resolute GOP legislature
North Carolina's next governor campaigned to work if elected on bending back state government's recent right-ward turn, including the repeal of a law outgoing Gov. Pat McCrory signed limiting LGBT rights known as House Bill 2. But Democrat Roy Cooper may have trouble doing that given that Republicans will still hold veto-proof majorities when he takes office next month. GOP legislative leaders are resolute in keeping their conservative policies intact.
North Carolina Gov. McCrory concedes he lost re-election bid
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory conceded the governor's race Monday, clearing the way for Democrat Roy Cooper to be declared the winner nearly four weeks after Election Day. The win by Cooper, the state's outgoing attorney general, gives Democrats an important consolation prize after a disappointing election across the country.
The Latest: N.Carolina governor concedes he lost re-election
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has conceded the governor's race, clearing the way for Democrat Roy Cooper to be declared the winner. The concession nearly four weeks after Election Day comes after appeals dried up and postelection counts saw Cooper's narrow lead increasing.
Despite uproar, N.Carolina governor rivals use private email
Republican incumbent Pat McCrory and his Democratic opponent in the undecided North Carolina governor's race have together sent or received hundreds of messages from private email accounts. It's a practice scorned by transparency advocates.
NC officials order Durham vote recount after GOP appeal
Heavily Democratic Durham County must recount more than 94,000 votes in the still-undecided governor's race, North Carolina elections officials ordered on Wednesday, further delaying declaring a winner three weeks after Election Day. The Republican-led statewide elections board voted 3-2 along party lines in favor of a Republican bid to recount the early ballots cast before Nov. 8. Durham County election officials didn't know definitively whether the recount effort will take hours or days.
Hotline Extra: Cooper’s Lead Grows in North Carolina
North Carolina Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper grew his lead over the weekend against Republican Gov. Pat McCrory to 9,558 votes as of Monday afternoon, according to the State Board of Elections . Cooper's lawyer, Marc Elias, told reporters earlier Monday that it is "extremely unlikely" that margin breaks 10,000, the threshold that would disallow McCrory's requested statewide, taxpayer-funded recount.
Tar Heel View: If you cana t win court a ” stack it
In 1937 - flush after his landslide re-election campaign and frustrated by a conservative Supreme Court - President Roosevelt came up with a plan. For each justice older than 70, he'd appoint an "assistant," raising the high court's membership from nine to as many as 15 and assuring a majority of liberal Democrats.
Democrat’s lead widens in North Carolina governor’s race
Hardly anyone in North Carolina is willing to guess when their excruciatingly close governor's race will be resolved. A Friday deadline came and went with Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper's unofficial advantage growing to about 6,600 votes over Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, from nearly 4.7 million cast.
At least 20 wildfires in Southeast investigated as arson
F... . Smoke from the Party Rock fire near Lake Lure spreads as emergency services and the N.C. Forest Service work to contain the blaze Wednesday Nov. 9, 2016 at Lake Lure, N.C. Unseasonably warm dry we... .
LGBT law, hurricane jostle close N. Carolina governor’s race
Republican Gov. Pat McCrory has been unable to quash the firestorm over his signing of a law limiting protections for LGBT people, while trying to focus his re-election bid on North Carolina's economy, taxes, teacher pay and his recent response to historic flooding. That legislation has reinforced this election as a referendum on North Carolina's conservative shift under McCrory and the Republican-led legislature.
The Boogeyman of Voter Fraud Does Not Exist
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is President of the North Carolina NAACP, founder and president of Repairers of the Breach , and co-author of The Third Reconstruction As early voting opened in my home state of North Carolina last week, Donald Trump continued to dominate headlines, despite Hillary Clinton's six-point lead in a national poll . The third and final presidential debate covered several areas of substantive difference between the two candidates, and millions of Americans are already voting for the future they want.
Hot-button issues reign on TV
All you have to do is turn on your TV and watch the political commercials featuring such sexually-laden issues as rape, sexual offenders and men going into girls' locker rooms. The ads have mainly been run by Republican incumbents Sen. Richard Burr and Gov. Pat McCrory or their allies, who are fending off difficult Democratic challenges.
Go To Hell, Republicans
A doll featuring the likeness of George W. Bush is seen in the damage caused in a firebomb attack on local offices of the North Carolina Republican Party in Hillsborough, North Carolina, U.S. October 17, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Keane Go to hell Republicans.
GOP office in N.C. firebombed, vandalized police say
The building at 347 Ja-Max Drive was hit with graffiti and "flammable material" in a bottle was thrown through a window starting a fire inside, police said in an email. Graffiti that said "Nazi Republicans leave town or else" was spray painted in black paint on the side of a building next to the Republican headquarters, according to police.
After Attack On N.C. GOP Office, Politicians Decry ‘Attack On Our Democracy’
Overnight Saturday, an apparent firebomb burned through the Republican Party headquarters in North Carolina's Orange County. A bottle of flammable liquid was thrown through one of the building's windows, igniting a four-room fire and leaving behind blackened walls and charred campaign posters - but no casualties.
N. Carolina Democrats aim to narrow GOP legislative margin
North Carolina voters who've soured on contentious laws addressing gay rights, voter ID and abortion might muster enough political muscle to replace Republican Gov. Pat McCrory with a Democrat in November. But the GOP lawmakers who approved them almost certainly will keep control of the legislature.
LAPD shooting
The LAPD's fatal shooting of black teen, identified by his family as Carnell Snell Jr., is the latest to spark angry protests on Saturday, Oct. 1. The death of a black teenager, who was fatally shot Saturday afternoon by a police officer following a car chase, drew an angry - albeit peaceful - crowd on the streets of south Los Angeles. Los Angeles police shot the 18-year-old following a traffic stop at about 1 p.m. Officers tried to pull over a car with paper license plates, suspecting the vehicle was stolen, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department.
New law may complicate release of Charlotte police video
Protesters who have filled the streets to push for the release of video of a fatal police shooting could see their task get much harder if Charlotte authorities do not share the footage within a week. A North Carolina law that takes effect Oct. 1 will declare that the video is not a public record and that only a judge can release it, potentially making the issue far more complicated than if police simply shared the footage on their own.
State of Emergency Declared in Charlotte
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has declared a state of emergency in the city of Charlotte after unrest continued for a second night sparked by the fatal police shooting on Tuesday of Keith Lamont Scott, 43, a black man who they say was armed and others claim was holding a book as he waited for his son to get off a school bus. Police used tear gas Wednesday night to disperse crowds.