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The sentencing hearing for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who could go to prison for life for deserting his duties in Afghanistan in June 2009 and endangering the lives of fellow troops, was postponed on Monday for two days due to an emergency for a lawyer in the case. The proceedings at North Carolina's Fort Bragg will resume on Wednesday, Army Judge Colonel Jeffery Nance said in court.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform member Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., left, speaks to a staff member on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 15, 2016. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform member Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., left, speaks to a staff member on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 15, 2016.
The federal government will pick up 100 percent of the costs of debris removal and other emergency assistance to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. President Donald Trump made the change Tuesday as part of an amendment to his earlier disaster declaration authorizing federal aid.
Anthony Weiner's sexting compulsion cost him his seat in Congress, his shot at becoming New York mayor and his marriage, and may have even denied Hillary Clinton the presidency. On Monday, it cost him his freedom.
The bank, which continues to reel from a series of scandals, said Friday that it's laying off some positions in Charlotte, North Carolina - home to one of its corporate headquarters. The company declined to say how many people would be affected.
As Congress prepares to consider the first serious tax reform in decades, the old talking points are being trotted out: the Republican proposals will destroy the middle class and send the economy into a downward spiral. Not so fast, says North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis.
The News & Observer of Raleigh on University of North Carolina Board of Governors criticizing school officials over the recent controversy about a Confederate memorial statue at the Chapel Hill campus: Now 15 members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors have criticized in a letter UNC system President Margaret Spellings, Board of Governors Chair Lou Bissette and by implication UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt over the recent controversy about the Silent Sam Confederate memorial statue on the Chapel Hill campus.
The White House has significantly scaled back an annual gathering of the nation's historically black colleges presidents and advocates after a series of potentially offensive actions by President Donald Trump, including his much maligned statement this summer on the deadly race-fueled rally in Charlottesville, Va. Organizers worried some presidents would not attend and students would protest next week's event, initially scheduled to be held at a hotel just outside the nation's capital, according to three people familiar with the situation.
Former congressman Anthony Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, have appeared before a New York City judge to ask for privacy in their divorce case. Lawyers for disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner say a 15-year-old North Carolina girl he sexted had hoped to influence the presidential election.
The president's hard-core backers want an America that isn't coming back. What are we going to do? What are they going to do? The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll -which shows a yawning cultural divide between Trump voters and Republicans on the one hand and everyone else on the other on everything from gay marriage to immigration-doesn't tell us much that we didn't know, but it does tell us something we should remember.
The chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party has condemned a social media post by a mayoral candidate that listed her skin color among her qualifications. Kimberley Barnette is one of three candidates in next week's mayoral primary in Charlotte.
North Carolina Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, a Republican, during a Senate 2016 session. Of Democratic criticisms of his party's redistricting efforts, Berger says, "It's easier to blame the maps, blame a process, blame anything, really, than it is to take responsibility for losing touch with the politics of voters in 75 of North Carolina's 100 counties."
For about four hours, lawmakers listened as dozens of local residents described how they've become worried to drink their tap water. "I've raised my children on this water," said Emily Donovan of Winnabow.
The North Carolina Air National Guard has conducted its last flight including all eight of its C-130 Hercules aircraft. The Guard's 145th Airlift Wing is preparing to trade in the aging C-130 fleet for larger C-17 Globemaster II aircraft.
The new proposed map does not include Wayne County in District 4 and expands Districts 21 and 10 within the county. Republicans in the North Carolina House of Representative released the new proposed districts map Saturday with Wayne County having different borders and losing a representative.
North Korea say that leader Kim Jong Un was briefed on his military's plans to launch missiles in waters near Guam days after the Korean People's Army announced its preparing to create "enveloping fire" near the... North Korea say that leader Kim Jong Un was briefed on his military's plans to launch missiles in waters near Guam days after the Korean People's Army announced its preparing to create "enveloping fire" near the U.S. military hub in the Pacific. Protesters in North Carolina toppled a statue of a Confederate soldier that had stood for nearly a century in a protest Monday against racism.
The British gover... North Korea say that leader Kim Jong Un was briefed on his military's plans to launch missiles in waters near Guam days after the Korean People's Army announced its preparing to create "enveloping fire" near the... North Korea say that leader Kim Jong Un was briefed on his military's plans to launch missiles in waters near Guam days after the Korean People's Army announced its preparing to create "enveloping fire" near the U.S. military hub in the Pacific. Protesters in North Carolina toppled a statue of a Confederate soldier that had stood for nearly a century in a protest Monday against racism.
In 1948, a 38-year-old North Carolinian and English professor at the University of Chicago coined a memorable phrase: "ideas have consequences." Richard Weaver, a traditionalist conservative from the Asheville area who briefly taught at North Carolina State University before landing his Chicago job, was making a philosophical point in his provocative book "Ideas Have Consequences" about the nature of truth and implications of denying its universality.
North Carolina voters got less than half a loaf from three federal judges last week. The decision was just one more step in tweaking an election system that is hopelessly broken.
Gov. Roy Cooper's administration wants the state's pending Medicaid overhaul to integrate physical and mental health treatment more quickly and expand coverage to more of the working poor in North Carolina, according to its plan unveiled Tuesday. The Department of Health and Human Services released a report explaining how it wants the Medicaid program to look when a 2015 state law directing the reorganization takes effect, possibly in July 2019.