Unveiling a long-awaited plan to combat the national scourge of opioid drug addiction, President Donald Trump called Monday for stiffer penalties for drug traffickers, including embracing a tactic employed by some of the global strongmen he admires: the death penalty.
President Donald Trump is not considering firing the special counsel investigating Russian election interference, a top White House lawyer said, after a cascade of Trump tweets revived chatter that the deeply frustrated president may be preparing to get rid of the veteran prosecutor.
The Mecklenburg County Sheriff election begins next months, and Saturday several groups discussed three issues about the current sheriff's policies.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he has fired Andrew McCabe, a former FBI deputy director who was a regular target of President Donald Trumpβs anger and criticism, just two days before McCabeβs scheduled retirement date. McCabe suggested the move was part of the Trump administrationβs βwar on the FBI.β
The news organization ProPublica issued a detailed correction of a story about Gina Haspel, President Donald Trumpβs choice for the next CIA director, and the waterboarding of a detainee the year after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The Carolina Panthers are looking for ways to improve their roster with a limited amount of cap space.Β Β Free agency officially began Wednesday, March 14th at 4 p.m.Β
Students at several Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools joined others across the country for a walkout Wednesday. They want to call attention to school safety concerns in the wake of the Florida school shooting.
From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last monthβs massacre of 17 people at Floridaβs Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday got his chance to inspect prototypes for the βbig beautiful border wallβ he wants to build to separate the U.S. from Mexico, saying strengthening the border would help stop β99 percentβ of illegal immigration β or, he allowed, βmaybe more than that.β
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have completed a draft report concluding there was no collusion or coordination between Donald Trumpβs presidential campaign and Russia, a finding that pleased the White House but enraged Democrats who had not yet seen the document.
The White House unveiled a new plan to prevent school shootings that backs off President Donald Trumpβs support for increasing the minimum age for purchasing assault weapons to 21.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed a school safety bill passed by the Legislature in response to the Valentineβs Day mass shooting that killed 17 people at a high school.
The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority released documents that show how much it would cost the City of Charlotte to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump plan to meet in May for nuclear disarmament talks, a whiplash development that would put two leaders whoβve repeatedly insulted, threatened and dismissed each other in the same room, possibly in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
After a week of hints and uncertainty, President Donald Trump said Thursday he would announce tariffs on imported steel and aluminum but with temporary exemptions for Canada and Mexico as he seeks to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement. He suggested Australia and βother countriesβ might also be spared, a shift that could soften the international blow amid threats of retaliation by trading partners.
President Trump is set to place tariffs on steel and aluminum....and the issue has sparked a debate.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is taking the fight over the nationβs immigration policy directly to California by suing to block state laws that extend protections to people living in the U.S. illegally.
Top economic adviser Gary Cohn is leaving the White House after breaking with President Donald Trump on trade policy, the latest in a string of high-level departures from the West Wing.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has expressed a willingness to discuss nuclear disarmament with the United States and impose a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests during such talks, a senior South Korean official said Tuesday after returning from the North.
In a remarkably public confrontation, House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican allies of President Donald Trump are pleading with him to back away from his threatened international tariffs, which they fear could spark a dangerous trade war. Trump retorted: βWeβre not backing down.β
