Former Vice President Mike Pence has filed paperwork declaring his campaign for president in 2024, setting up a historic challenge to his former boss, Donald Trump. The nationβs 48th vice president will formally launch his bid for the Republican nomination with a video and kickoff event in Iowa on Wednesday, the date of his 64th birthday.
This week changes go into effect allowing duplexes and triplexes in neighborhoods zoned as single-family only. It's part of Charlotte's new Unified Development Ordinance. But now, City Council could consider last minute changes.
An Army veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a military-style formation with fellow members of the Oath Keepers was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in prison, a day after the far-right extremist group's founder receivedΒ an 18-year prison termΒ in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.
A judge put South Carolinaβs new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy on hold Friday until the state Supreme Court can review the measure, giving providers a temporary reprieve in a region that has enacted strict limits on the procedure.
The Biden Administration is launching a first of its kind national action plan to end gender-based violence.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was sentenced Thursday after a landmark verdict convicting him of spearheading a weekslong plot to keep former President Donald Trump in power.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has entered the 2024 presidential race. DeSantis revealed his decision in a Federal Election Commission filing before a planned online conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
The South Carolina Senate approved a bill Tuesday that would ban most abortions after around six weeks of pregnancy -- before most people know they are pregnant β and sent it to the governor who has promised to sign it.
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has launched his presidential campaign. Scott offered an optimistic message he hopes can contrast the two figures who have used political combativeness to dominate the early GOP primary field: former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Scott is the Senate's only Black Republican.
The mother of an 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody said Friday that agents repeatedly ignored pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter as she felt pain in her bones, struggled to breathe and was unable to walk.
North Carolinaβs Republican-controlled Senate voted Tuesday to override the Democratic governorβs veto of a bill banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in the first of two steps necessary to enact the policy over Gov. Roy Cooperβs opposition.
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy announced its commitment to assisting migrants affected by the ending of Title 42, a provision that has been used to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States during times of public health emergencies.
A jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House.
Less than a year after losing her daughter Emilia at five days old, Jillian Phillips suffered a miscarriage.
In massive victories for Republicans, the newly GOP-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday threw out a previous ruling against gerrymandered voting maps and upheld a photo voter identification law that colleagues had struck down as racially biased.
President Joe Biden has formally announced he's running for reelection in 2024. Biden made the announcement Tuesday.
A jury was seated Tuesday to hear a voting machine company's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News in a trial that will test First Amendment protections and expose the network's role in spreading the lie of a stolen 2020 presidential election.
Long story short, she was elected as a Democrat but now she identifies as a Republican. That choice gives the GOP a veto-proof majority.
Former President Donald Trumpβs 34 criminal charges relate to $130,000 of alleged hush money paid to Stormy Daniels, but the case is estimated to cost New York City $200M.
The former head of a Michigan medical marijuana licensing board has agreed to plead guilty to accepting $110,000 in bribes when he led the panel over a two-year period, authorities said Thursday.
