Governor Roy Cooper announced today that North Carolinaβs indoor mass gathering limit will be lowered to 10 people in an effort to drive down North Carolinaβs key COVID-19 metrics. Executive Order 176 will go into effect on Friday, November 13 and will be in place through Friday, December 4.
The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to leave in place the bulk of the Affordable Care Act, including key protections for pre-existing health conditions and subsidized insurance premiums that affect tens of millions of Americans.
Republican surrogates for President Donald Trump resumed their legal fight Monday to try to stop the vote count in key battleground states, including Pennsylvania and Michigan, but faced long odds given the Electoral College tally and recent court rulings that found no evidence of widespread vote fraud.
Jubilant crowds celebrated the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the nationβs next president and vice president Saturday, honking horns, cheering and dancing in the streets across the country.
President Donald Trump has fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, a stunning and unprecedented move at a time of national uncertainty about the outcome of Trumpβs bid for a second term. The move could be seen as unsettling for the Pentagon and a source of concern for international allies and partners.
After an historic election, President-Elect Joe Biden is preparing his transition team, while President Donald Trump and his closest allies, refuse to concede. With the results showing a divided nation, how can the country come together?
Joe Biden used his first national address as president-elect to vow to heal a deeply divided nation, declaring it was time to βlet this grim era of demonization in America begin to endβ and reaching out to the millions of people who voted against him to say, βLetβs give each other a chance.β
Absentee by mail ballot counting continued on Friday night in Mecklenburg County.Β North Carolina is still too close to call as about 90,000 absentee ballots and about 40,000 provisional ballots hang in the balance.Β President Trump is leading Joe Biden in North Carolina by about 70,000 votes.Β
Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil. Biden crossed 270 Electoral College votes with a win in Pennsylvania.
President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows has been diagnosed with the coronavirus as the nation sets daily records for confirmed cases for the pandemic.
As the U.S. waits for the full results of the presidential election, some protesters have demanded that ballot counting be stopped, while others have taken to the streets to urge that every vote be counted.
Democrat Joe Biden was on the cusp of winning the presidency on Friday as he opened up narrow leads over President Donald Trump in the critical battlegrounds of Georgia and Pennsylvania.
The Trump campaign released a statement Friday morning saying "This election is not over."Β
The outcomes of elections for North Carolinaβs top lawyer and top judge likely wonβt be settled for at least several more days as mail-in ballots trickle in and provisional ballots are scrutinized statewide.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said in a news conference on Thursday that he will continue to push forward with his goal of expanding Medicaid at a time when voters decided to maintain GOP control of both chambers of the Legislature.
As Election Day stretched into election week, election workers count ballots around the clock. The fight for the White House - centered in battleground states.
North Carolina GOP Chairman Michael Whatley was in Charlotte Thursday night. Accusing the State Board of Elections of not being transparent.
A handful of pivotal states remained in play Thursday in the tightly contested U.S. presidential race.
North Carolina elections officials wish to remind Election Day voters that it may take a few weeks before their βvoter historyβ is updated to reflect their recent vote in their voter record available through the State Board of Electionsβ Voter Search tool.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections announced Thursday that a total of 40,766 provisional ballots remain to be reviewed and certified across the state.
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