With little Washington appetite for another shutdown, President Donald Trump is expected to grudgingly accept an agreement that would keep the government open but provide just a fraction of the money heβs been demanding for his Mexican border wall.
The tentative agreement to fund the federal government through the fiscal year and averts a shutdown gives President Donald Trump far less money than he sought for building a border wall with Mexico.
The debate over immigration enforcement getting heated at Monday night's Charlotte City Council meeting. Some council members are criticizing CMPD's actions in the wake of ICE arrests last week.
President Donald Trump headed to the Texas border on Monday to argue his case that walls work as Democrats and Republicans back home in Washington announced a deal had been reached to avoid another government shutdown.
Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar βunequivocallyβ apologized on Monday for tweets about the influence in Congress of an American organization that supports Israel, which drew bipartisan criticism and a rebuke from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Republican U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr. of North Carolina, a once-fervent supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq who later became an equally outspoken Republican critic of the war, died Sunday, his 76th birthday.
Monday night Charlotte City Council is expected to move forward with a vote on expanding to four-year terms. Voters would get to make the final decision in November. It's something the new council has talked about since members took office about a year ago.
ICE promises more arrests after detaining 200 people in one week in the state.
Former U.S. Rep. John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in American history who mastered legislative deal-making and was fiercely protective of Detroitβs auto industry, has died. The Michigan Democrat was 92.
As the debate over border security rolls on, the clock continues ticking down toward another partial government shutdown.
The political crisis in Virginia spun out of control Wednesday when the stateβs attorney general confessed to putting on blackface in the 1980s and a woman went public with detailed allegations of sexual assault against the lieutenant governor.
President Trump calls for unity during his second State of the Union Address to a divided Congress.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will hold a two-day summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un Feb. 27-28 in Vietnam to continue his efforts to persuade Kim to give up his nuclear weapons.
Local immigration attorneys argue President Donald Trump missed the real border crisis in his State of the Union Address.
Facing a divided Congress for the first time, President Donald Trump warned emboldened Democrats in his State of the Union speech Tuesday that βridiculous partisan investigationsβ could derail economic progress.
A South Carolina lawmaker says she hopes legislation she's introduced will close loopholes in the state's laws that hinder prosecution of sexual assault crimes.
North Carolina's new elections board will hear evidence later this month about alleged ballot fraud as it seeks to resolve the nation's last unsettled congressional race.
President Trump is putting the finishing touches on his State of the Union address that he will give before a joint session of Congress tomorrow night at 9 p.m.
A senior North Korean official has arrived in Beijing, reportedly en route to the United States for talks ahead of a possible second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker is running for president in 2020.
